Perfect discrete morse functions on triangulated 3-manifolds

  • Authors:
  • Rafael Ayala;Desamparados Fernández-Ternero;José Antonio Vilches

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain;Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain;Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

  • Venue:
  • CTIC'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational Topology in Image Context
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This work is focused on characterizing the existence of a perfect discrete Morse function on a triangulated 3-manifold M, that is, a discrete Morse function satisfying that the numbers of critical simplices coincide with the corresponding Betti numbers. We reduce this problem to the existence of such kind of function on a spine L of M, that is, a 2-subcomplex L such that M−Δ collapses to L, where Δ is a tetrahedron of M. Also, considering the decomposition of every 3-manifold into prime factors, we prove that if every prime factor of M admits a perfect discrete Morse function, then M admits such kind of function.