Lifted toroidal-cycle conjecture for cycles trivial in the quotient
Lifted toroidal-cycle conjecture for cycles trivial in the quotient
Let be a periodic cellular complex and let be a quotient space obtained from its translational periodicity. A toroidal cycle is a cycle in arising from the periodic directions, and a lift of such a cycle is a corresponding chain or cycle in .
Lifted toroidal-cycle conjecture. All cycles in which are trivial in can be written in terms of lifts of toroidal cycles.
The claim would extend the known degree-one recovery of disappearing cycles and is illustrated by the periodic union of coordinate planes in , where the boundary of a unit cube vanishes in the quotient and is expressed using lifted toroidal -cycles. Its validity in higher dimensions remains open.
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Adam Onus and Primoz Skraba, “Persistent Local Systems of Periodic Spaces”, arXiv:2505.13051 (2025).
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