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Formal Contraction of the N-Simplex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Bruce B. Peterson*
Affiliation:
Middlebury College
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If K is a finite geometric (i.e. admitting a rectilinear triangulation) n-complex and σn is an n - simplex of K which is n -1 not a face of any n + 1 simplex of K, and if σn-1 is an n-1 face of σn which is not a face of any other n - simplex in K, then the complex K - σn - σn-1 (the complex whose simplexes are those of K except for σn and σn-1) is called an elementary contraction of K of order n. The correspondence K → K - σn - σn-1 will also be called an elementary contraction, there being no possibility of confusion.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1967

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