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A Combinatorial Analogue of Poincaré's Duality Theorem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Victor Klee
Victor Klee*
Affiliation:
University of Washington and Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories
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For a non-negative integer s and a finite simplicial complex K, let βS(K) denote the s-dimensional Betti number of K and let fs(K) denote the number of s-simplices of K. Our theorem, like Poincaré's, applies to combinatorial manifolds M, but it concerns the numbers fs(M) instead of the numbers βS(M). One of the formulae given below is used by the author in (5) to establish a sharp upper bound for the number of vertices of n-dimensional convex poly topes which have a given number i of (n — 1)-faces. This amounts to estimating the size of the computation problem which may be involved in solving a system of i linear inequalities in n variables, and was the original motivation for our study.

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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 16 , 1964 , pp. 517 - 531
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1964

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