Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4587295 Journal of Algebra 2010 17 Pages PDF
Abstract

We associate to a good cell decomposition of a manifold M a quadratic algebra and show that the Koszulity of the algebra implies a restriction on the Euler characteristic of M. For a two-dimensional manifold M the algebra is Koszul if and only if the Euler characteristic of M is two.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Algebra and Number Theory