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Minimal triangulations of circle bundles, circular permutations and binary Chern cocycle

2019/08/12 by Mnëv, Nikolai
#Algebraic Topology (math.AT) #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1908.04029

Abstract

We investigate a PL topology question: which circle bundles can be triangulated over a given triangulation of the base? The question got a simple answer emphasizing the role of minimal triangulations encoded by local systems of circular permutations of vertices of the base simplices. The answer is based on an experimental fact: classical Huntington transitivity axiom for cyclic orders can be expressed as the universal binary Chern cocycle.

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