Homology representations arising from the half cube

We construct a CW decomposition Cn of the n-dimensional half cube in a manner compatible with its structure as a polytope. For each 3⩽k⩽n, the complex Cn has a subcomplex Cn,k, which coincides with the clique complex of the half cube graph if k=4. The homology of Cn,k is concentrated in degree k−1 and furthermore, the (k−1)st Betti number of Cn,k is equal to the (k−2)nd Betti number of the complement of the k-equal real hyperplane arrangement. These Betti numbers, which also appear in theoretical computer science, numerical analysis and engineering, are the coefficients of a certain Pascal-like triangle (Sloane's sequence A119258). The Coxeter groups of type Dn act naturally on the complexes Cn,k, and thus on the associated homology groups.