Duality in Infinite Graphs

نویسندگان

  • Henning Bruhn
  • Reinhard Diestel
چکیده

The adaption of combinatorial duality to infinite graphs has been hampered by the fact that while cuts (or cocycles) can be infinite, cycles are finite. We show that these obstructions fall away when duality is reinterpreted on the basis of a ‘singular’ approach to graph homology, whose cycles are defined topologically in a space formed by the graph together with its ends and can be infinite. Our approach enables us to complete Thomassen’s results about ‘finitary’ duality for infinite graphs to full duality, including his extensions of Whitney’s theorem.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Combinatorics, Probability & Computing

دوره 15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006