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### Dual Cells and Face Poset

Hello.

I would like to create a procedure in Sage to find the dual cell of a simplex $\sigma$ in a simplicial complex $K$. The dual cell $D(\sigma, K)$ of $\sigma$ is a subcomplex of the first barycentric subdivision of $K$. The vertex set is given by the barycentres of all cofaces of $\sigma$, and the simplices are joins of barycentres of the form $\widehat{\sigma_0} \widehat{\sigma_1} ... \widehat{\sigma_s}$ with $\sigma \leq \sigma_0 \leq ... \leq \sigma_s$.

My plan of attack is to view K as a poset, then find the maximal increasing chains $[\sigma_0,..., \sigma_s]$ in K which satisfy $\sigma_0 = \sigma$ . These chains would then be the maximal faces of the dual cell $D(\sigma, K)$.

Creating the poset and finding the maximal chains of simplices is fine. However, if I have a maximal chain $[\sigma_0,..., \sigma_s]$ a problem occurs when checking if $\sigma_0 = \sigma$ - Sage sees $\sigma_0$ as an element of the poset and not as simplex.

How can I correct this?

Thanks, Chris .

### Dual Cells and Face Poset

Hello.

I would like to create a procedure in Sage to find the dual cell of a simplex $\sigma$ in a simplicial complex $K$. The dual cell $D(\sigma, K)$ of $\sigma$ is a subcomplex of the first barycentric subdivision of $K$. The vertex set is given by the barycentres of all cofaces of $\sigma$, and the simplices are joins of barycentres of the form $\widehat{\sigma_0} \widehat{\sigma_1} ... \widehat{\sigma_s}$ with $\sigma \leq \sigma_0 \leq ... \leq \sigma_s$.

My plan of attack is to view K as a poset, then find the maximal increasing chains $[\sigma_0,..., \sigma_s]$ in K which satisfy $\sigma_0 = \sigma$ . These chains would then be the maximal faces of the dual cell $D(\sigma, K)$.

Creating the poset and finding the maximal chains of simplices is fine. However, if I have a maximal chain $[\sigma_0,..., \sigma_s]$ a problem occurs when checking if $\sigma_0 = \sigma$ - Sage sees $\sigma_0$ as just an element of the poset and not as simplex.

How can I correct this?

Thanks, Chris .

### Dual Cells and Face Poset

Hello.

I would like to create a procedure in Sage to find the dual cell of a simplex $\sigma$ in a simplicial complex $K$. The dual cell $D(\sigma, K)$ of $\sigma$ is a subcomplex of the first barycentric subdivision of $K$. The vertex set is given by the barycentres of all cofaces of $\sigma$, and the simplices are joins of barycentres of the form $\widehat{\sigma_0} \widehat{\sigma_1} ... \widehat{\sigma_s}$ with $\sigma \leq \sigma_0 \leq ... \leq \sigma_s$.

My plan of attack is to view K as a poset, then find the maximal increasing chains $[\sigma_0,..., \sigma_s]$ in K which satisfy $\sigma_0 = \sigma$ . These chains would then be the maximal faces of the dual cell $D(\sigma, K)$.

Creating the poset and finding the maximal chains of simplices is fine. However, if I have a maximal chain $[\sigma_0,..., \sigma_s]$ a problem occurs when checking if $\sigma_0 = \sigma$ - Sage sees $\sigma_0$ as just an element of the poset and not as simplex.simplex and $\sigma$ is a simplex but not an element of the poset.

How can I correct this?

Thanks, Chris .

### Dual Cells and Face Poset

Hello.

I would like to create a procedure in Sage to find the dual cell of a simplex $\sigma$ in a simplicial complex $K$. The dual cell $D(\sigma, K)$ of $\sigma$ is a subcomplex of the first barycentric subdivision of $K$. The vertex set is given by the barycentres of all cofaces of $\sigma$, and the simplices are joins of barycentres of the form $\widehat{\sigma_0} \widehat{\sigma_1} ... \widehat{\sigma_s}$ with $\sigma \leq \sigma_0 \leq ... \leq \sigma_s$.

My plan of attack is to view K as a poset, then find the maximal increasing chains $[\sigma_0,..., \sigma_s]$ in K which satisfy $\sigma_0 = \sigma$ . These chains would then be the maximal faces of the dual cell $D(\sigma, K)$.

Creating the poset and finding the maximal chains of simplices is fine. However, if I have a maximal chain $[\sigma_0,..., \sigma_s]$ a problem occurs when checking if $\sigma_0 = \sigma$ - Sage sees $\sigma_0$ as just an element of the poset and not as simplex and $\sigma$ is as a simplex but not an element of the poset.poset so the equality is never satisfied.

How can I correct this?

Thanks, Chris .