Characteristic maps under ordered simplicial maps #
A simplicial map that is injective on a face sends its cell to a cell of the same dimension.
If it also preserves the order of that face's vertices, its realization carries the chosen
characteristic map to the chosen characteristic map of the image cell, and the image of its
j-th deleted-vertex face is the j-th face of the image cell. The hypothesis is local
to the face: vertices belonging to different faces may be identified or have their order
reversed. The equality holds on the whole characteristic-map domain, including the constant
extension outside the closed ball.
References #
- A. Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, Chapter 0 (simplicial complexes as CW complexes).
- C. P. Rourke, B. J. Sanderson, Introduction to Piecewise-Linear Topology, Chapter 2.
The image cell of a simplicial cell under a map injective on that cell's vertices.
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The face underlying the image cell is the image of the original face.
The vertices of the image cell form the image of the original vertex set.
The identity simplicial map fixes each cell.
Mapping a cell successively agrees with mapping it along the composite simplicial map.
A vertex map increasing on a cell carries its increasing enumeration to the increasing enumeration of the image cell.
A vertex map increasing on a cell carries its j-th deleted-vertex face to the j-th
deleted-vertex face of the image cell.
The identity simplicial map is strictly increasing on every cell.
Simplexwise strictly increasing simplicial maps remain so under composition.
On a cell where the vertex map preserves order strictly, realization carries its characteristic map to the characteristic map of its image cell. No hypothesis is imposed on vertices outside that cell.