In geometry, a flag is a chain of incidence relations, as for example between distinct linear subspaces
of a fixed vector space , or between isotropic subspaces, etc.
Generally speaking, if is a poset, a flag is a chain
and the set of elements can be thought of as an -simplex of a simplicial complex whose vertices are the poset elements. Hence we have a functor
In the other direction, there is an underlying functor
which sends a simplicial complex to (regarded as a poset ordered by inclusion). The composite
is called the subdivision functor, or, more exactly, the barycentric subdivision functor.
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