Generating families of surface triangulations. The case of punctured surfaces with inner degree at least 4

We present two versions of a method for generating all triangulations of any punctured surface in each of these two families: (1) triangulations with inner vertices of degree ≥ 4 and boundary vertices of degree ≥ 3 and (2) triangulations with all vertices of degree ≥ 4. The method is based on a seri...

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Autores: Chávez de Diego, María José, Negami, Seiya, Quintero Toscano, Antonio Rafael, Villar Liñán, María Trinidad
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/43363
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11441/43363
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Punctured surface
Irreducible triangulation
Edge contraction
Vertex splitting
Removal
addition of octahedra
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Sumario:We present two versions of a method for generating all triangulations of any punctured surface in each of these two families: (1) triangulations with inner vertices of degree ≥ 4 and boundary vertices of degree ≥ 3 and (2) triangulations with all vertices of degree ≥ 4. The method is based on a series of reversible operations, termed reductions, which lead to a minimal set of triangulations in each family. Throughout the process the triangulations remain within the corresponding family. Moreover, for the family (1) these operations reduce to the well-known edge contractions and removals of octahedra. The main results are proved by an exhaustive analysis of all possible local configurations which admit a reduction.