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Triangular homotopy equivalences

Algebraic Topology 2013-11-15 v2

Abstract

A map f:XYf:X\to Y to a simplicial complex YY is called a YY-triangular homotopy equivalence if it has a homotopy inverse gg and homotopies h1:fgidYh_1:f\circ g\simeq \mathrm{id}_Y, h2:gfidXh_2:g\circ f\simeq \mathrm{id}_X such that for all simplices σY\sigma\in Y, fσ:f1(σ)σf|_\sigma:f^{-1}(\sigma) \to \sigma is a homotopy equivalence with inverse gσ:σf1(σ)g|_\sigma:\sigma \to f^{-1}(\sigma) and homotopies h1σh_1|_\sigma and h2σh_2|_\sigma. In this paper we prove that for all pairs X,YX,Y of finite-dimensional locally finite simplicial complexes there is an ϵ(X,Y)>0\epsilon(X,Y)>0 such that any ϵ\epsilon-controlled homotopy equivalence f:XYf:X\to Y for ϵ<ϵ(X,Y)\epsilon<\epsilon(X,Y) is homotopic to a YY-triangular homotopy equivalence. Conversely, we conjecture that it is possible to `subdivide' a YY-triangular homotopy equivalence by finding a homotopic (SdY)(Sd\, Y)-triangular homotopy equivalence, consequently a YY-triangular homotopy equivalence would be homotopic to an ϵ\epsilon-controlled homotopy equivalence for all ϵ>0\epsilon>0.

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@article{arxiv.1310.2768,
  title  = {Triangular homotopy equivalences},
  author = {Spiros Adams-Florou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2768},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

8 pages, 1 figure, part of my PhD thesis, minor TeX corrections to abstract

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