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The third symmetric potency of the circle and the Barnette sphere

Geometric Topology 2017-09-20 v2 Algebraic Topology Combinatorics

Abstract

We give an elementary (not cut just paste) proof of results of Bott and Shchepin: the space of non-empty subsets of a circle of cardinality at most 3, which is called the third symmetric potency of the circle, is homeomorphic to a 3-sphere and the inclusion of the space of one element subsets is a trefoil knot. Moreover, we give an explicit simplicial decomposition of the third symmetric potency of the circle which is isomorphic to the Barnette sphere.

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@article{arxiv.1709.02573,
  title  = {The third symmetric potency of the circle and the Barnette sphere},
  author = {Yuki Nakandakari and Shuichi Tsukuda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.02573},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

7 pages, fixed some typos, corrected wording