We prove that, except in some low-complexity cases, every locally injective simplicial map between pants graphs is induced by a $π_1$-injective embedding between the corresponding surfaces.
We investigate the structure of the tri-pants graph, a simplicial graph introduced by Maloni and Palesi, whose vertices correspond to particular collections of homotopy classes of simple closed curves of the twice-punctured torus, called tri-pants, and whose edges connect two vertices whenever the corresponding pants differ by suitable elementary moves. In particular, by examining the relationship between the tri-pants graph and the dual of the Farey complex, we prove that the tri-pants graph is connected and has infinite diameter.
We prove a strong form of finite rigidity for pants graphs of spheres. Specifically, for any $n\geq4$, we construct a finite subgraph $X_n$ of the pants graph $P(S_{0,n})$ of the n-punctured sphere $S_{0,n}$ with the following property. Any simplicial embedding of $X_n$ into any pants graph $P(S_{0,m})$ of a punctured sphere is induced by an embedding $S_{0,n} \to S_{0,m}$.
Let $S_{g,n}$ be an orientable surface of genus $g$ with $n$ punctures. We identify a finite rigid subgraph $X_{g,n}$ of the pants graph $\mathcal P (S_{g,n})$, that is, a subgraph with the property that any simplicial embedding of $X_{g,n}$ into any pants graph $\mathcal P (S_{g',n'})$ is induced by an embedding $S_{g,n}\to S_{g',n'}$. This extends results of the third author for the case of genus zero surfaces.
We study some graphs associated to a surface, called k-multicurve graphs, which interpolate between the curve complex and the pants graph. Our main result is that, under certain conditions, simplicial embeddings between multicurve graphs are induced by $π_1$-injective embeddings of the corresponding surfaces. We also prove the rigidity of the multicurve graphs.
In this paper, we investigate a family of graphs associated to collections of arcs on surfaces. These {\it multiarc graphs} naturally interpolate between arc graphs and flip graphs, both well studied objects in low dimensional geometry and topology. We show a number of rigidity results, namely showing that, under certain complexity conditions, that simplicial maps between them only arise in the "obvious way". We also observe that, again under necessary complexity conditions, subsurface strata are convex. Put together, these results imply that certain simplicial maps always give rise to convex …
We study $d$-dimensional simplicial complexes that are PL embeddable in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$. It is shown that such a complex must satisfy a certain homological condition. The existence of this obstruction allows us to provide a systematic approach to deriving upper bounds for the number of top-dimensional faces of such complexes, particularly in low dimensions.
A map $f\colon K\to \mathbb R^d$ of a simplicial complex is an almost embedding if $f(σ)\cap f(τ)=\emptyset$ whenever $σ,τ$ are disjoint simplices of $K$. Theorem. Fix integers $d,k\ge2$ such that $d=\frac{3k}2+1$. (a) Assume that $P\ne NP$. Then there exists a finite $k$-dimensional complex $K$ that does not admit an almost embedding in $\mathbb R^d$ but for which there exists an equivariant map $\tilde K\to S^{d-1}$. (b) The algorithmic problem of recognition almost embeddability of finite $k$-dimensional complexes in $\mathbb R^d$ is NP hard. The proof is based on the technique from the Mat…
A map $f: K \to \mathbb{R}^d$ of a simplicial complex is an almost embedding if $f(σ) \cap f(τ) = \varnothing$ whenever $σ, τ$ are disjoint simplices of $K$. Fix integers $d,k \geqslant 2$ such that $k+2 \leqslant d \leqslant\frac{3k}2+1$. Assuming that the "preimage of a cycle is a cycle" we prove $\mathbf{NP}$-hardness of the algorithmic problem of recognition of almost embeddability of finite $k$-dimensional complexes in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Assuming that $\mathbf{P} \ne \mathbf{NP}$ (and that the "preimage of a cycle is a cycle") we prove that the embedding obstruction is incomplete for $k$-dim…
We introduce dual matroids of 2-dimensional simplicial complexes. Under certain necessary conditions, duals matroids are used to characterise embeddability in 3-space in a way analogous to Whitney's planarity criterion. We further use dual matroids to extend a 3-dimensional analogue of Kuratowski's theorem to the class of 2-dimensional simplicial complexes obtained from simply connected ones by identifying vertices or edges.
We construct embeddings of simplicial complexes into a (surface of a) simplicial ball whose triangulation has bounded degrees and low volume. This construction can be used either to efficiently "simplify a complicated space" by realizing it as a part of a ball/sphere, or to "complexify" a sphere - to give it a specific metric that inherits desired properties from an embedded complex.
We prove that 2-dimensional simplicial complexes whose first homology group is trivial have topological embeddings in 3-space if and only if there are embeddings of their link graphs in the plane that are compatible at the edges and they are simply connected.
We characterise the embeddability of simply connected locally 3-connected 2-dimensional simplicial complexes in 3-space in a way analogous to Kuratowski's characterisation of graph planarity, by excluded minors. This answers questions of Lovász, Pardon and Wagner.
We consider 2-dimensional random simplicial complexes $Y$ in the multi-parameter model. We establish the multi-parameter threshold for the property that every 2-dimensional simplicial complex $S$ admits a topological embedding into $Y$ asymptotically almost surely. Namely, if in the procedure of the multi-parameter model, each $i$-dimensional simplex is taken independently with probability $p_i=p_i(n)$, from a set of $n$ vertices, then the threshold is $p_0 p_1^3 p_2^2 = \frac{1}{n}$. This threshold happens to coincide with the previously established thresholds for uniform hyperbolicity and tr…
This paper is the last paper in a series of five papers. Building on earlier papers in this series, we prove an analogue of Kuratowski's characterisation of graph planarity for three dimensions. More precisely, a simply connected 2-dimensional simplicial complex embeds in 3-space if and only if it has no obstruction from an explicit list of obstructions. This list of obstructions is finite except for one infinite family.
For a finite simplicial graph $Γ$, let $G(Γ)$ denote the right-angled Artin group on the complement graph of $Γ$. In this article, we introduce the notions of "induced path lifting property" and "semi-induced path lifting property" for immersions between graphs, and obtain graph theoretical criteria for the embedability between right-angled Artin groups. We recover the result of S.-h.{} Kim and T.{} Koberda that an arbitrary $G(Γ)$ admits a quasi-isometric group embedding into $G(T)$ for some finite tree $T$. The upper bound on the number of vertices of $T$ is improved from $2^{2^{(m-1)^2}}$ t…
We give examples of finite, simplicial $2$-complexes that do not PL embed in $\mathbb{R}^4$ and exhibit, for each such complex, a family of PL immersions into $\mathbb{R}^4$ that hide the obstruction to embedding in "higher and higher order Milnor invariants". In addition, we show that the embedding obstructions defined by Krushkal in [8] vanish for our examples. We also answer a question in a paper of Avramidi-Okun-Schreve.
We prove the equivalence between a relative bottleneck property and being quasi-isometric to a tree-graded space. As a consequence, we deduce that the quasi-trees of spaces defined axiomatically by Bestvina-Bromberg-Fujiwara are quasi-isometric to tree-graded spaces. Using this we prove that mapping class groups quasi-isometrically embed into a finite product of simplicial trees. In particular, these groups have finite Assouad-Nagata dimension, direct embeddings exhibiting $\ell^p$ compression exponent $1$ for all $p\geq 1$ and they quasi-isometrically embed into $\ell^1(\mathbb N)$. We deduce…
University of Florida(佛罗里达大学);Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学);Microsoft Research(微软研究院);Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics(马克斯·普朗克分子细胞生物学与遗传学研究所);Technische Universität Dresden(德累斯顿工业大学);Freie Universität Berlin(柏林自由大学);Rhodes College(罗兹学院)
Consider a simplicial complex that allows for an embedding into $\mathbb{R}^d$. How many faces of dimension $\frac{d}{2}$ or higher can it have? How dense can they be? This basic question goes back to Descartes' "Lost Theorem" and Euler's work on polyhedra. Using it and other fundamental combinatorial problems, we introduce a version of the Kähler package beyond positivity, allowing us to prove the hard Lefschetz theorem for toric varieties (and beyond) even when the ample cone is empty. A particular focus lies on replacing the Hodge-Riemann relations by a non-degeneracy relation at torus-inva…