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The prism triangulation has the stated oriented boundary
Statement
Fix . Let be the bottom and top inclusions, . Let with the simplices from The prism operator of a homotopy. Then where the last sum is omitted when .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An integer .
The prism simplices are the simplices of the standard triangulation of (The prism operator of a homotopy).
The singular boundary is the alternating sum of the codimension-one faces (The singular boundary operator).
Proof
If , then is the oriented edge from to , so [L2] gives . This is exactly the displayed formula with no side-prism sum.
Assume . By [L2], each is the alternating sum of its codimension-one faces. The face opposite in is the top face , and the face opposite in is the bottom face . For each , the face of opposite is the same -simplex as the face of opposite , so these interior faces occur twice in with opposite total signs and cancel.
The remaining uncancelled faces are the top face from , the bottom face from , and the side faces obtained by deleting one vertex of . For each fixed , those side faces are exactly the prism simplices in the standard triangulation of , and comparing the induced vertex order with the definition of gives the total contribution . Summing over and combining with steps 1.1 and 1.2 yields the stated boundary formula.