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Betti numbers of complexes with highly Connected links

Combinatorics 2017-03-17 v1

Abstract

Let X be a k-dimensional simplicial complex such that the (k-j-2)-dimensional homology of the links of all j-dimensional simplices in X vanishes. An upper bound is given on the (k-1)-th Betti number of X. Examples based on sum complexes show that this bound is asymptotically sharp for all fixed j<k.

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@article{arxiv.1703.05562,
  title  = {Betti numbers of complexes with highly Connected links},
  author = {Amir Abu-Fraiha and Roy Meshulam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05562},
  year   = {2017}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures

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