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Homology Representations Arising from a Hypersimplex

Representation Theory 2011-08-31 v1 Combinatorics Geometric Topology

Abstract

We present a complete acyclic matching of the Hasse diagram associated with the face lattice of a hypersimplex. Since a hypersimplex is a convex polytope, there is a natural way to form a CW complex from its faces. We will then utilize this matching along with discrete Morse theory and some topological techniques to classify every subcomplex whose reduced homology groups are concentrated in a single degree. These reduced homology groups support a natural action of the symmetric group and a description of the characters that this action produces is given.

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@article{arxiv.1108.6001,
  title  = {Homology Representations Arising from a Hypersimplex},
  author = {Jacob T. Harper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.6001},
  year   = {2011}
}
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