Contractible complexes and non-positive immersions

2022/10/05 by William Fisher, Fisher, William
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #Advanced Operator Algebra Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.02304

Abstract

We provide examples of contractible complexes which fail to have non-positive immersions and weak non-positive immersions, answering a conjecture of Wise in the negative.

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