Simplicial and categorical diagrams, and their equivariant applications.
This paper shows that the simplicial type of a finite simplicial complex is determined by its algebra of polynomial functions on the baricentric coordinates with coefficients in any integral domain. The link between and is done through certain admissible matrix associated to in a natural way. This result was obtained for the real numbers by I. V. Savel’ev [5], using methods of real algebraic geometry. D. Kan and E. Miller had shown in [2] that determines the homotopy type of the polyhedron...
Basic examples show that coincidence theory is intimately related to central subjects of differential topology and homotopy theory such as Kervaire invariants and divisibility properties of Whitehead products and of Hopf invariants. We recall some recent results and ask a few questions which seem to be important for a more comprehensive understanding.
We show that there exist non-trivial piecewise linear (PL) knots with isolated singularities , n ≥ 5, whose complements have the homotopy type of a circle. This is in contrast to the case of smooth, PL locally flat, and topological locally flat knots, for which it is known that if the complement has the homotopy type of a circle, then the knot is trivial.