Closed faces carried by a core expansion #
The positive expansion certificate in CoreExpansion assigns length one to
slots internal to a fibre and then contracts them topologically. A closed
row construction instead assigns those slots length zero. The bridge between
the two descriptions is the following fibre theorem: the equivalence relation
generated by the slots tagged contracted is exactly equality under the
expansion's fibre map.
This statement is genus-independent and contains no finite atlas data. It is the combinatorial heart of lowering a closed construction on a trivalent expansion back to the smaller core.
Slots which disappear in the closed face associated to an expansion.
Equations
- D.contractedSlots = {e : Fin Q | D.kind e = Utilities.Subdivision.CoreExpansion.SlotKind.contracted}
Instances For
Direct adjacency through a contracted slot stays in one fibre.
A chain of contracted slots stays in one fibre.
Conversely, the finite-cut fibre condition in ExpansionData.Conditions
forces every two vertices of one fibre to be joined by contracted slots.
Expansion fibre theorem. The union-find quotient generated by the
contracted expansion slots has exactly the fibres prescribed by D.fib.