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We provide first a categorical exploration of, and then completion of the mapping of the relationships among, three fundamental perspectives on binary relations: as the incidence matrices of hypergraphs, as the formal contexts of concept…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Robert E. Green , Cliff A. Joslyn , Audun Myers , Michael G. Rawson , Michael Robinson

We develop a discrete Morse theory for open simplicial complexes $K=X\setminus T$ where $X$ is a simplicial complex and $T$ a subcomplex of $X$. A discrete Morse function $f$ on $K$ gives rise to a discrete Morse function on the order…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Kevin P. Knudson , Nicholas A. Scoville

We establish a loop space decomposition for certain $CW$-complexes with a single top cell in the presence of a spherical pair, thereby generalizing several known decompositions of Poincar\'{e} duality complexes in which a loop of a product…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Ruizhi Huang

The paper extends Birkhoff's theorem on doubly stochastic matrices to some countable families of discrete probability spaces with nonempty intersections. We join every two elements lying in the same probability space by an edge and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Y. Safarov

We extend Makkai duality between coherent toposes and ultracategories to a duality between toposes with enough points and ultraconvergence spaces. Our proof generalizes and simplifies Makkai's original proof. Our main result can also be…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Sam van Gool , Jérémie Marquès , Umberto Tarantino

We consider the bar complex of a monomial non-unital associative algebra $A=k \langle X \rangle / (w_1,...,w_t)$. It splits as a direct sum of complexes $B_w$, defined for any fixed monomial $w=x_1...x_n \in A$. We give a simple argument,…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Natalia Iyudu , Ioannis Vlassopoulos

We use discrete Morse theory to give a new proof of the Degree Theorem in Auter space A_n. There is a filtration of A_n into subspaces A_{n,k} using the degree of a graph, and the Degree Theorem says that each A_{n,k} is (k-1)-connected.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-06 Robert McEwen , Matthew C. B. Zaremsky

We study Morse theory on noncompact manifolds equipped with exhaustions by compact pieces, defining the Morse homology of a pair which consists of the manifold and related geometric/homotopy data. We construct a collection of Morse data…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Taesu Kim

We present a new approach to Morse and Novikov theories, based on the deRham Federer theory of currents, using the finite volume flow technique of Harvey and Lawson. In the Morse case, we construct a noncompact analogue of the Morse…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Reese F. Harvey , G. Minervini

We define a notion of Morse function and establish Morse theory-like theorems over offsets of any compact set in a Euclidean space at regular values of their distance function. Using non-smooth analysis and tools from geometric measure…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Antoine Commaret

An isovariant map is an equivariant map between $G$-spaces which strictly preserves isotropy groups. In this paper, we lay the groundwork for the study of isovariant stable homotopy theory. We prove an isovariant Blakers--Massey theorem and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Inbar Klang , Sarah Yeakel

A general theorem due to Howe of dual action of a classical group and a certain non-associative algebra on a space of symmetric or alternating tensors is reformulated in a setting of second quantization, and familiar examples in atomic and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 K. Neergård

Given two finite abstract simplicial complexes A and B, one can define a new simplicial complex on the set of simplicial maps from A to B. After adding two technicalities, we call this complex Homsc(A, B). We prove the following dichotomy:…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Sebastian Meyer

Recently, Steinberg used discrete Morse theory to give a new proof of a theorem of Symonds that the orbit space of the poset of nontrivial $p$-subgroups of a finite group is contractible. We extend Steinberg's argument in two ways, covering…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Omar Dennaoui , Jonathon Villareal

We combine Homotopy Type Theory with axiomatic cohesion, expressing the latter internally with a version of "adjoint logic" in which the discretization and codiscretization modalities are characterized using a judgmental formalism of "crisp…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Michael Shulman

In this work, we introduce a combinatorial-geometric model for the space of discrete Morse functions on any CW complex $X$. We relate this version of a space of discrete Morse functions to the space of cellular filtrations of $X$ and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Julian Brüggemann

Two of the most useful tools in topological combinatorics are the nerve lemma and discrete Morse theory. In this note we introduce a theorem that interpolates between them and allows decompositions of complexes into non-contractible pieces…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Alexander Engström

We establish a large class of homotopy coherent Morita-equivalences of Dold-Kan type relating diagrams with values in any weakly idempotent complete additive $\infty$-category; the guiding example is an $\infty$-categorical Dold-Kan…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Tashi Walde

One of the prime motivation for topology was Homotopy theory, which captures the general idea of a continuous transformation between two entities, which may be spaces or maps. In later decades, an algebraic formulation of topology was…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Suddhasattwa Das

In this paper we present a new approach to computing homology (with field coefficients) and persistent homology. We use concepts from discrete Morse theory, to provide an algorithm which can be expressed solely in terms of simple graph…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Paweł Dłotko , Hubert Wagner