Homotopy types of the deleted product of unions of two simplexes
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Abstract:
If X is a space, let ${X^\ast } = X \times X - D$, where D is the diagonal. If f is a map on X to a space Y, let $X_f^\ast = \{ (x,y) \in {X^\ast }|f(x) \ne f(y)\}$. In this paper we continue our investigation, begun in [6], of the homotopy types of ${X^\ast }$ and $X_f^\ast$, and of a question due to Brahana [1, p. 236], as to when the homotopy types of ${X^\ast }$ and $X_f^\ast$ are the same. If X is the union of two nondisjoint simplexes, and if f is a simplicial map on X, we are able, using results and techniques developed in [6], to express the homotopy types of ${X^\ast }$ and $X_f^\ast$ in terms of spheres, and then to determine when the homotopy types of these spaces are the same.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1972 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1972), 151-155
- MSC: Primary 55D15
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1972-0292078-6
- MathSciNet review: 0292078