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Left adjoint functor between categories of polygons?
EDIT: Based on very helpful comments from Alec Rhea and Qiaochu Yuan I am adding some specification on objects and morphisms, hoping that this clarifies the idea behind these categories. I have also ...
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Bordism for oriented triangulable manifolds without smooth differentiable structures
We know the bordism group for oriented smooth differentiable structures such as $\Omega_d^{SO}$ that requires the special orthogonal group structure on the tangent bundle $TM$ of manifold $M$.
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When is a triangulation of sphere two-colorable?
Let $T$ be a triangulation of sphere. We say that $T$ is $k$-colorable if the triangles of $T$ can be assigned with $k$ colors such that any two triangles with a common edge have different colors.
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Can triangulations (or some related combinatorial structure) distinguish smooth structures on $RP^4$?
There are exotic versions of $RP^4$, constructed by Cappell-Shaneson, which are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the standard $RP^4$. One way to distinguish them is via the $\eta$ invariant of $...
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If $X_d$ is a non-triangulable manifold, can $X_d \times T^k$, $X_d \times I^k$, or $X_d \times \mathbb{R}^k$ be a triangulable manifold?
If $X_d$ is a non-triangulable manifold, can $X_d \times T^k$, $X_d \times I^k$, or $X_d \times \mathbb{R}^k$ always be a triangulable manifold?
Let $X_d$ be a $d$-manifold which is NOT a ...
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Can $X_4 \times S^1$, $X_4 \times I^1$, or $X_4 \times \mathbb{R}^1$ be a triangulable, PL or DIFF manifold, if $X_4$ is a non-triangulable manifold? [duplicate]
Question: If $X_4$ is a non-triangulable topological (TOP) manifold,
can $X_4 \times S^1$, $X_4 \times I^1$, or $X_4 \times \mathbb{R}^1$ be a triangulable manifold?
can $X_4 \times S^1$, $X_4 \...
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On Thurston's triangulations of sphere
I have two questions from Thurston's paper [1].
In the paper [1], Thurston talks about classifying certain classes of triangulations of the sphere. Here a triangulation of a sphere a Topological ...
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The number of $2$-simplices and the number of $1$-simplices in a $4$-dimensional simplicial complex
Given a $4d$ simplicial complex (a triangulation of $4$-manifold), is there any relation between the number of $2$-simplices (triangles) and the number of $1$-simplices (edges)? Generically, is the ...
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High-Dimensional Analogs of Polygon Spaces
[Edit: I had a mistake in the numerology (took d=6,5 instead of d=5,4). Edit: I mistakenly identified my mistake, it is 6,5 but I got the indices shifted by one.]
Background: Polygon spaces
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What are some triangulations of Grassmannians?
A while ago I heard that there was no known triangulation of the Grassmannian of 3-planes in 6-space.
To believe a statement like that, you have to be a little bit ungenerous about what you mean by "...
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Dehn-Sommerville relations for $\Delta$-complexes
Let $M$ be a closed, triangulated manifold of dimension $m$ and $K(M)$ be its triangulation. Let $f_i$ denote the number of $i$-simplices of $K(M)$. As proved by Klee the face numbers satisfy the ...
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Does any smooth oriented closed orbifold have a fundamental class
This thread:triangulation of orbifolds
has shown that any smooth closed orbifold has a triangulation. My further question is: if the difference of any two triangulations $P$ and $Q$ is a boundary of a ...
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