Stellar theory for flag complexes
Combinatorics
2014-08-08 v3
Abstract
Refining a basic result of Alexander, we show that two flag simplicial complexes are piecewise linearly homeomorphic if and only if they can be connected by a sequence of flag complexes, each obtained from the previous one by either an edge subdivision or its inverse. For flag spheres we pose new conjectures on their combinatorial structure forced by their face numbers, analogous to the extremal examples in the upper and lower bound theorems for simplicial spheres. Furthermore, we show that our algorithm to test the conjectures searches through the entire space of flag PL spheres of any given dimension.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1302.5197,
title = {Stellar theory for flag complexes},
author = {Frank H. Lutz and Eran Nevo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.5197},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
12 pages, 2 figures. Notation unified and presentation of proofs improved