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On a construction of some homology $d$-manifolds

Combinatorics 2025-10-20 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

The gg-vector of a simplicial complex contains a lot of information about the combinatorial and topological structure of that complex. Several classification results regarding the structure of normal pseudomanifolds and homology manifolds have been established concerning the value of g2g_2. It is known that when g2=0g_2=0, all normal pseudomanifolds of dimensions at least three are stacked spheres. In the cases of g2=1g_2=1 and 22, all homology manifolds are polytopal spheres and can be obtained through retriangulation or join operations from the previous ones. In this article, we provide a combinatorial characterization of the homology dd-manifolds, where d3d\geq 3 and g2=3g_2=3. These are spheres and can be obtained through operations such as joins, some retriangulations, and connected sums from spheres with g22g_2\leq 2. Furthermore, we have presented a structural result on prime normal dd-pseudomanifolds with g2=3g_2=3.

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@article{arxiv.2206.01117,
  title  = {On a construction of some homology $d$-manifolds},
  author = {Biplab Basak and Sourav Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.01117},
  year   = {2025}
}

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23 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Discrete Mathematics