Half-space PL charts on the weak realization of a solid simplex #
The weak realization of the standard (n + 1)-simplex has a PL atlas with model the
half-space in (Fin n → ℝ) × ℝ. Its vertex-chart domains are exactly the open stars.
Dropping the last barycentric coordinate and reindexing the others identifies the
realization with the coordinate simplex; the existing polyhedral half-space charts
then flatten its corners. Proper-face support is equivalent to normal coordinate zero
on each chart source. These give the solid standard simplex models for transporting
PL charts along simplicial subdivisions.
The construction reuses realizationTopHomeomorphCoordinateSimplex, the ambient
simplexBoundaryCoordinateMap, and coordinateSimplexHalfSpaceChart.
Reference: C. P. Rourke and B. J. Sanderson, Introduction to Piecewise-Linear Topology,
Springer (1972), Chapters 1–2 (simplices and polyhedral local models).
Each chart has precisely the open star of its indexing vertex as source.
none indexes the omitted vertex; some i indexes the retained vertex corresponding to i.
All solid simplex vertex charts share the same open subset of the half-space model as target.
The chart's ambient coordinates are given by the existing polyhedral flattening map.
The chart at the omitted vertex sends that vertex to the origin.
On a chart target, the ambient inverse flattening and affine missing-mass lift recover every barycentric coordinate of the inverse chart.
On a vertex chart's source, proper-face support is exactly normal coordinate zero.
Coordinate changes have finite affine decompositions in the ambient half-space model.
The finite vertex atlas on the solid simplex's weak realization.
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The weak realization of the solid standard (n + 1)-simplex is a PL manifold
with boundary, with its barycentric open-star atlas. The case n = 0 is the segment.
The inverse of the simplex half-space chart, followed by the coordinate lift and a PL map G
on the standard simplex, is PL on the model coordinates of any set T of targets of the chart at
the vertex v.