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Given a relation $R \subseteq I \times J$ between two sets, Dowker's Theorem (1952) states that the homology groups of two associated simplicial complexes, now known as Dowker complexes, are isomorphic. In its modern form, the full result…

Given a relation on $ X \times Y $, we can construct two abstract simplicial complexes called Dowker complexes. The geometric realizations of these simplicial complexes are homotopically equivalent. We show that if two relations are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Dominic Desjardins Côté

We construct a simplicial complex, the rectangle complex of a relation R, and show that it is homotopy equivalent to the Dowker complex of R. This results in a short and conceptual proof of functorial versions of Dowker's Theorem used in…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Morten Brun , Lars M. Salbu

The Dowker complex $\mathrm{D}_{R}(X,Y)$ is a simplicial complex capturing the topological interplay between two finite sets $X$ and $Y$ under some relation $R\subseteq X\times Y$. While its definition is asymmetric, the famous Dowker…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Marius Huber , Patrick Schnider

Using ideas of the Dowker duality we prove that the Rips complex at scale $r$ is homotopy equivalent to the nerve of a cover consisting of sets of prescribed diameter. We then develop a functorial version of the Nerve theorem coupled with…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Žiga Virk

We explain how homotopical information of two composeable relations can be organized in two simplicial categories that augment the relations row and column complexes. We show that both of these categories realize to weakly equivalent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Melvin Vaupel , Benjamin Dunn

The Dowker theorem is a classical result in the topology of finite spaces, claiming that any binary relation between two finite spaces defines two homotopy-equivalent complexes (the Dowker complexes). Recently, Barmak strengthened this to a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Morten Brun , Darij Grinberg

The most natural notion of a simplicial nerve for a (weak) bicategory was given by Duskin, who showed that a simplicial set is isomorphic to the nerve of a $(2,1)$-category (i.e. a bicategory with invertible $2$-morphisms) if and only if it…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Nathaniel Watson

We show that the classification diagram of a relative $\infty$-category arising from a relative simplicial category is equivalent to the levelwise nerve. Applications include the comparison of the diagonal of the levelwise nerve and the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Kensuke Arakawa

The Dowker complex is an abstract simplicial complex that is constructed from a binary relation in a straightforward way. Although there are two ways to perform this construction -- vertices for the complex are either the rows or the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Michael Robinson

This paper explores the relationship amongst the various simplicial and pseudo-simplicial objects characteristically associated to any bicategory C. It proves the fact that the geometric realizations of all of these possible candidate…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 P. Carrasco , A. M. Cegarra , A. R. Garzón

Constructing and manipulating homotopy types from categorical input data has been an important theme in algebraic topology for decades. Every category gives rise to a `classifying space', the geometric realization of the nerve. Up to weak…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Stefan Schwede

The main purpose of this work is the study of the homotopy theory of dg-categories up to quasi-equivalences. Our main result provides a natural description of the mapping spaces between two dg-categories $C$ and $D$ in terms of the nerve of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Toen

The classical Dold-Kan correspondence is known to admit a categorification in the form of an equivalence between the $\infty$-categories of $2$-simplicial stable $\infty$-categories and connective chain complexes of stable…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Till Heine

There is a canonical way to associate two simplicial complexes K, L to any relation $R\subset X\times Y$. Moreover, the geometric realizations of K and L are homotopy equivalent. This was studied in the fifties by C.H. Dowker. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Elias Gabriel Minian

In this paper we establish Koszul duality between dg categories and a class of curved coalgebras, generalizing the corresponding result for dg algebras and conilpotent curved coalgebras. We show that the normalized chain complex functor…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Julian Holstein , Andrey Lazarev

This paper presents three short, new proofs of Dowker duality using various poset fiber lemmas. We introduce modifications of joins and products of simplicial complexes called relational join and relational product complexes. These…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Iris H. R. Yoon

Let $I$ be a small category with finite dimensional nerve, and $X\colon I\to Cat$ a diagram of small categories. We show that, under a "Reedy quasi-fibrancy condition", the homotopy limit of the geometric realization of $X$ is itself the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-29 Emanuele Dotto

Much of the homotopical and homological structure of the categories of chain complexes and topological spaces can be deduced from the existence and properties of the 'simple' functors Tot : {double chain complexes} -> {chain complexes} and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-15 Beatriz Rodriguez Gonzalez

Let $R$ be a right notherian ring. We introduce the concept of relative singularity category $\Delta_{\mathcal{X}}(R)$ of $R$ with respect to a contravariantly finite subcategory $\mathcal{X}$ of $\rm{mod}\mbox{-}R.$ Along with some…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Rasool Hafezi
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