Collapsible polyhedra and median spaces

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2811-2818

  Van Vel, M D E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collapsible polyhedron; Convex structure; Cubical complex; Gate map; Injective metric; Median graph; Median operator; Simplicial complex

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044440508     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-98-04413-x     Document Type: Article

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