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Mathlib.AlgebraicTopology.SimplicialSet.Nonsingular

Nonsingular simplicial sets #

In this file, we introduce a typeclass SSet.Nonsingular for a simplicial set X : SSet: it says that for any non-degenerate simplex x : X _⦋n⦌, the corresponding morphism Δ[n] ⟶ X is a monomorphism. This notion is useful in the context of the study of the subdivision functor (TODO @joelriou).

The condition SSet.Nonsingular is a weaker condition compared to the notion of "polyhedral complex" which appears in the article Simplicial approximation by Jardine, and which says that there exists a monomorphism X ⟶ nerve T where T is a partially ordered type.

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A simplicial set X is nonsingular if for any nondegenerate simplex x (of dimension n), the corresponding morphism Δ[n] ⟶ X is a monomorphism.

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