Cellular strings on polytopes
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Abstract:
The complex of cellular strings with respect to a generic linear functional on a d-dimensional convex polytope has the homotopy type of the $(d - 2)$-sphere. This result was conjectured in a special case by H.-J. Baues.References
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- © Copyright 1994 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 122 (1994), 549-555
- MSC: Primary 52B40; Secondary 52B99, 55P99, 57T30
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1994-1205482-0
- MathSciNet review: 1205482