most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-06-20T01:01:12Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/24091 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/98358/the-query-concerning-the-euler-poincare-formulas-generalizations Jorma Kyppö 2012-05-30T10:58:01Z 2012-05-30T20:29:30Z

<p>Euler's equation for polyhedral, Euler's polyhedral formula, V – E + F = 2, where V, E, and F, are the number of points, edges and faces, was discovered by Leonhard Euler in 1752. However, the basic idea - not the equation - was revealed much earlier by Descartes &amp; others, and later generalized by Lhuilier, as follow: V – E + F = 2 – 2g, where g is genus, the number of holes or handles. Later on, Schläfli and Poincare also generalized the formula to the higher dimensional n-polytopes. We talk about Euler-Poincare formula and Euler-Poincare characteristic (X) for combinatorial cell complexes or polyhedral solids: X = N1 – N2 + N3 – N4 + … +/- Nk, where k is the dimension of the complex Nk and X = 2, if k is odd, or 0, if k is even.</p> <p>My <strong>question</strong> is: Are there any other/later generalizations of this Euler-Poincare characteristic of a cell complex?</p>

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/98358/the-query-concerning-the-euler-poincare-formulas-generalizations Jorma Kyppö 2012-05-30T13:22:47Z 2012-05-30T13:22:47Z

Thank you. I'm mostly interested about the generalizations with genus.