Collapsibility to a subcomplex of a given dimension is NP-complete
Computational Geometry
2019-04-08 v3 Computational Complexity
Geometric Topology
Abstract
In this paper we extend the works of Tancer and of Malgouyres and Franc\'es, showing that -collapsibility is NP-complete for except . By -collapsibility we mean the following problem: determine whether a given -dimensional simplicial complex can be collapsed to some -dimensional subcomplex. The question of establishing the complexity status of -collapsibility was asked by Tancer, who proved NP-completeness of and -collapsibility (for ). Our extended result, together with the known polynomial-time algorithms for and , answers the question completely.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.06983,
title = {Collapsibility to a subcomplex of a given dimension is NP-complete},
author = {Giovanni Paolini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06983},
year = {2019}
}