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arXiv · 1807.09396

Equivariant simplicial reconstruction

Abstract

We introduce and analyze parallelizable algorithms to compress and accurately reconstruct finite simplicial complexes that have non-trivial automorphisms. The compressed data -- called a complex of groups -- amounts to a functor from (the poset of simplices in) the orbit space to the 2-category of groups, whose higher structure is prescribed by isomorphisms arising from conjugation. Using this functor, we show how to algorithmically recover the original complex up to equivariant simplicial isomorphism. Our algorithms are derived from generalizations (by Bridson-Haefliger, Carbone-Rips and Corson, among others) of the classical Bass-Serre theory for reconstructing group actions on trees.

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Lisa Carbone, Vidit Nanda, Yusra Naqvi. 2018-07-24. Equivariant simplicial reconstruction. https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09396

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