Résumé : The arc complex is a pure flag simplicial complex associated to a finite-type topological surface with marked points. It was discovered by Harvey and used by geometers like Harer, Penner, Bowditch, Epstein to study geometric properties of hyperbolic surfaces, their Teichmüller spaces and their mapping class groups. The arc complex is also a subcomplex of the cluster complex of a cluster algebra, defined by Fomin-Zelevinksy. For most of the surfaces, the arc complex is locally non-compact. In this talk, I will discuss about the simplicial topology of the arc complex in the finite cases. In particular, I will focus on the shellability (analogous to simply-connectedness) and collapsibility (analogous to contractibility) of these finite complexes and prove that they are closed combinatorial balls.

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