Timeline for Who first considered constructibility of simplicial complexes?
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| Mar 27, 2016 at 16:51 | comment | added | Jeremy Martin | Alexander's paper is "The combinatorial theory of complexes," Ann. Math. 31, no. 2 (1930), 292-320, which acknowledges a debt to Newman. That said, these sources do not seem to consider constructibility as a property worth studying in its own right, although there are theorems along the lines of "If two d-balls intersect in a (d-1)-ball, then the union is a d-ball." These authors are concerned only with homeomorphism, whereas the reason to consider constructibility is more modern: a constructible space is Cohen-Macaulay "for the right reason" of Reisner's formula plus Mayer-Vietoris. | |
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| Mar 11, 2016 at 23:20 | history | edited | Vidit Nanda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2016 at 20:54 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Newman, Maxwell Herman Alexander. "On the foundations of combinatorial analysis situs." In Proc. Royal Acad. Amsterdam, vol. 29, pp. 610-641. 1926. | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 19:26 | history | answered | Vidit Nanda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |