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Projectivities in Simplicial Complexes and Colorings of Simple Polytopes

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v3 Algebraic Geometry Metric Geometry

Abstract

For each strongly connected finite-dimensional (pure) simplicial complex we construct a finite group, the group of projectivities of the complex, which is a combinatorial but not a topological invariant. This group is studied for combinatorial manifolds and, in particular, for polytopal simplicial spheres. The results are applied to a coloring problem for simplicial (or, dually, simple) polytopes which arises in the area of toric algebraic varieties.

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@article{arxiv.math/0102186,
  title  = {Projectivities in Simplicial Complexes and Colorings of Simple Polytopes},
  author = {Michael Joswig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0102186},
  year   = {2007}
}

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16 pages, Latex2e