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Jul 2, 2013 at 18:45 comment added Dan Ramras Thanks for the nice answer, Vidit. It's easy to forget how useful the flow lines really are. Sometimes this gets lost in discussions of Forman-style discrete Morse theory.
Jul 2, 2013 at 17:59 history edited Vidit Nanda CC BY-SA 3.0
Typo n --> p
Jul 2, 2013 at 16:53 history edited Vidit Nanda CC BY-SA 3.0
Dan's correction incorporated in last paragraph
Jul 2, 2013 at 16:51 comment added Vidit Nanda Thanks, Dan! I remember Mnev's correction of Biss's papers, and really should have kept it in mind.
Jul 2, 2013 at 16:47 comment added Dan Ramras The statement in the last paragraph is rather famously false without some extra hypotheses (which are satisfied in this setting) . If you take the circle and write it as a union of two half-open arcs with empty intersection, you get a counterexample. This is the problem that was identified by Mnev in Biss's (faulty) proof of Macpherson's matroid Grassmannian conjecture. Here it's fine because you're talking about simplicial complexes.
Jul 2, 2013 at 14:57 history answered Vidit Nanda CC BY-SA 3.0