Subdivisions of n-dimensional spaces and n-dimensional generalized maps

摘要

This paper deals with the modeling of n-dimensional objects, more precisely with the modeling of subdivisions of n-dimensional topological spaces. We here study the notions of:

n-dimensional generalized map (or n-G-map), for the modeling of the topology of any subdivision of any n-dimensional topological space (orientable or not orientable, with or without boundaries);

n-dimensional map (or n-map), for the modeling of the topology of any subdivision of any orientable n-dimensional topological space, without boundaries.

These two notions extend the notion of topological map, which has been used for the modeling of the topology of any subdivision of any surface.

We study in this paper some properties of the n-G-maps and the n-maps (orientability, duality, relationships between n-G-maps and n-maps …), and we define also operations for constructing any n-G-map.