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An injective word over a finite alphabet $V$ is a sequence $w=v_1v_2cdots v_t$ of distinct elements of $V$. The set $mathrm{inj}(V)$ of injective words on $V$ is partially ordered by inclusion. A complex of injective words is the order complex $Delta(W)$ of a subposet $W subset mathrm{inj}(V)$. Complexes of injective words arose recently in applications of algebraic topology to neuroscience, and are of independent interest in topology and combinatorics. In this article we mainly study Permutation Complexes, i.e. complexes of injective words $Delta(W)$, where $W$ is the downward closed subposet of $mathrm{inj}(V)$ generated by a set of permutations of $V$. In particular, we determine the homotopy type of $Delta(W)$ when $W$ is generated by two permutations, and prove that any stable homotopy type is realizable by a permutation complex. We describe a homotopy decomposition for the complex of injective words $Gamma(K)$ associated with a simplicial complex $K$, and point out a connection to a result of Randal-Williams and Wahl. Finally, we discuss some probabilistic aspects of random permutation complexes.
This paper studies combinatorial properties of the complex of planar injective words, a chain complex of modules over the Temperley-Lieb algebra that arose in our work on homological stability. Despite being a linear rather than a discrete object, our chain complex nevertheless exhibits interesting combinatorial properties. We show that the Euler characteristic of this complex is the n-th Fine number. We obtain an alternating sum formula for the representation given by its top-dimensional homology module and, under further restrictions on the ground ring, we decompose this module in terms of certain standard Young tableaux. This trio of results - inspired by results of Reiner and Webb for the complex of injective words - can be viewed as an interpretation of the n-th Fine number as the planar or Dyck path analogue of the number of derangements of n letters. This interpretation has precursors in the literature, but here emerges naturally from considerations in homological stability. Our final result shows a surprising connection between the boundary maps of our complex and the Jacobsthal numbers.
The Cantor-Bendixson rank of a topological space X is a measure of the complexity of the topology of X. The Cantor-Bendixson rank is most interesting when the space is profinite: Hausdorff, compact and totally disconnected. We will see that the injective dimension of the Abelian category of sheaves of rational vector spaces over a profinite space is determined by the Cantor-Bendixson rank of the space.
Let G be a compact Lie group. By work of Chataur and Menichi, the homology of the space of free loops in the classifying space of G is known to be the value on the circle in a homological conformal field theory. This means in particular that it admits operations parameterized by homology classes of classifying spaces of diffeomorphism groups of surfaces. Here we present a radical extension of this result, giving a new construction in which diffeomorphisms are replaced with homotopy equivalences, and surfaces with boundary are replaced with arbitrary spaces homotopy equivalent to finite graphs. The result is a novel kind of field theory which is related to both the diffeomorphism groups of surfaces and the automorphism groups of free groups with boundaries. Our work shows that the algebraic structures in string topology of classifying spaces can be brought into line with, and in fact far exceed, those available in string topology of manifolds. For simplicity, we restrict to the characteristic 2 case. The generalization to arbitrary characteristic will be addressed in a subsequent paper.
The augmented Bergman complex of a matroid is a simplicial complex introduced recently in work of Braden, Huh, Matherne, Proudfoot and Wang. It may be viewed as a hybrid of two well-studied pure shellable simplicial complexes associated to matroids: the independent set complex and Bergman complex. It is shown here that the augmented Bergman complex is also shellable, via two different families of shelling orders. Furthermore, comparing the description of its homotopy type induced from the two shellings re-interprets a known convolution formula counting bases of the matroid. The representation of the automorphism group of the matroid on the homology of the augmented Bergman complex turns out to have a surprisingly simple description. This last fact is generalized to closures beyond those coming from a matroid.
We introduce a new algorithm for the structural analysis of finite abstract simplicial complexes based on local homology. Through an iterative and top-down procedure, our algorithm computes a stratification $pi$ of the poset $P$ of simplices of a simplicial complex $K$, such that for each strata $P_{pi=i} subset P$, $P_{pi=i}$ is maximal among all open subposets $U subset overline{P_{pi=i}}$ in its closure such that the restriction of the local $mathbb{Z}$-homology sheaf of $overline{P_{pi=i}}$ to $U$ is locally constant. Passage to the localization of $P$ dictated by $pi$ then attaches a canonical stratified homotopy type to $K$. Using $infty$-categorical methods, we first prove that the proposed algorithm correctly computes the canonical stratification of a simplicial complex; along the way, we prove a few general results about sheaves on posets and the homotopy types of links that may be of independent interest. We then present a pseudocode implementation of the algorithm, with special focus given to the case of dimension $leq 3$, and show that it runs in polynomial time. In particular, an $n$-dimensional simplicial complex with size $s$ and $nleq3$ can be processed in O($s^2$) time or O($s$) given one further assumption on the structure. Processing Delaunay triangulations of $2$-spheres and $3$-balls provides experimental confirmation of this linear running time.