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Bisimplicial complexes and asphericity

Group Theory 2019-04-16 v3 Combinatorics Geometric Topology

Abstract

We present a discrete Morse-theoretic method for proving that a regular CW complex is homeomorphic to a sphere. We use this method to define bisimplices, the cells of a class of regular CW complexes we call bisimplicial complexes. The 1-skeleta of bisimplices are complete bipartite graphs making them suitable in constructing higher dimensional skeleta for bipartite graphs. We show that the flag bisimplicial completion of a finite bipartite bi-dismantlable graph is collapsible. We use this to show that the flag bisimplicial completion of a quadric complex is contractible and to construct a compact K(G,1) for G a torsion-free quadric group.

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@article{arxiv.1804.04630,
  title  = {Bisimplicial complexes and asphericity},
  author = {Nima Hoda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04630},
  year   = {2019}
}

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19 pages, 3 figures

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