Homeomorphic Model for the Polyhedral Smash Product of Disks and Spheres

Abstract

In this paper we present unpublished work by David Stone on polyhedral smash products. He proved that the polyhedral smash product of the CW-pair $(D^2, S^1)$ over a simplicial complex $K$ is homeomorphic to an iterated suspension of the geometric realization of $K$. Here we generalize his technique to the CW-pair $(D^{k+1}, S^{k})$, for an arbitrary $k$. We generalize the result further to a set of disks and spheres of different dimensions.