A Homotopy Theory for Graphs

E. Babson, H. Barcelo, M. de Longueville, R. Laubenbacher

Published 2004-03-09Version 1

The recently introduced A-homotopy groups for graphs are investigated. The main concern of the present article is the construction of an infinite cell complex, the homotopy groups of which are isomorphic to the A-homotopy groups of the given graph. We present a natural candidate for such a cell complex, together with a homomorphism between the corresponding groups that indeed yields an isomorphism, if a cubical analog of the simplicial approximation theorem holds, which - so far - we were unable to prove.