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Eliminating Higher-Multiplicity Intersections, II. The Deleted Product Criterion in the r-Metastable Range

Authors Isaac Mabillard, Uli Wagner

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  • Topological Combinatorics
  • Tverberg-Type Problems
  • Simplicial Complexes
  • Piecewise-Linear Topology
  • Haefliger-Weber Theorem

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Abstract

Motivated by Tverberg-type problems in topological combinatorics and by classical results about embeddings (maps without double points), we study the question whether a finite simplicial complex K can be mapped into R^d without higher-multiplicity intersections.

We focus on conditions for the existence of almost r-embeddings, i.e., maps f: K -> R^d such that the intersection of f(sigma_1), ..., f(sigma_r) is empty whenever sigma_1,...,sigma_r are pairwise disjoint simplices of K.

Generalizing the classical Haefliger-Weber embeddability criterion, we show that a well-known necessary deleted product condition for the existence of almost r-embeddings is sufficient in a suitable r-metastable range of dimensions: If r d > (r+1) dim K + 2 then there exists an almost r-embedding K-> R^d if and only if there exists an equivariant map of the r-fold deleted product of K to the sphere S^(d(r-1)-1).

This significantly extends one of the main results of our previous paper (which treated the special case where d=rk and dim K=(r-1)k, for some k> 2), and settles an open question raised there.

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Isaac Mabillard and Uli Wagner. Eliminating Higher-Multiplicity Intersections, II. The Deleted Product Criterion in the r-Metastable Range. In 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 51, pp. 51:1-51:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.51

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Isaac Mabillard
Uli Wagner

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