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陪域为圈的图同态Hom复形的同伦类型

Homotopy types of Hom complexes of graph homomorphisms whose codomains are cycles

Soichiro Fujii, Yuni Iwamasa, Kei Kimura, Yuta Nozaki, Akira Suzuki

AI总结:

该研究推广了图同态Hom复形的同伦类型结论,证明当定义域图连通、陪域为圈时,Hom复形同伦等价于点与圆的不交并,并给出判定分支同伦类型的简单判据。

摘要:

对于简单图$G$和$H$,Hom复形$\text{Hom}(G,H)$是一种多面体复形,其顶点为图同态$G\to H$,边连接仅在$G$的单个顶点上取值不同的同态对。Hom复形在图着色问题的代数拓扑方法中具有重要作用。已知当$G$和$H$均为圈时,$\text{Hom}(G,H)$同伦等价于若干点与圆的不交并。我们推广了这一已知结果,证明只要$G$是连通的且$H$是圈,上述结论同样成立。为此,我们显式构造了$\text{Hom}(G,H)$每个连通分支的万有覆叠,并证明其是可缩的。此外,我们给出了一个简单判据,用于判定包含给定同态的连通分支同伦等价于点还是圆。

英文摘要:

For simple graphs $G$ and $H$, the Hom complex $\mathrm{Hom}(G,H)$ is a polyhedral complex whose vertices are the graph homomorphisms $G\to H$ and whose edges connect the pairs of homomorphisms which differ in a single vertex of $G$. Hom complexes play an important role in an algebro-topological approach to the graph coloring problem. It is known that $\mathrm{Hom}(G,H)$ is homotopy equivalent to a disjoint union of points and circles when both $G$ and $H$ are cycles. We generalize this known result by showing that the same holds whenever $G$ is connected and $H$ is a cycle. To this end, we explicitly construct the universal cover of each connected component of $\mathrm{Hom}(G,H)$ and prove that it is contractible. Additionally, we provide a simple criterion to determine whether the connected component containing a given homomorphism is homotopy equivalent to a point or circle.

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