Kalai's squeezed three-spheres are polytopal

In 1988, Kalai [5] extended a construction of Billera and Lee to produce many triangulated(d−1)-spheres. In fact, in view of upper bounds on the number of simplicial d-polytopes by Goodman and Pollack [2,3], he derived that for every dimension d ≥ 5, most of these(d−1)-spheres are not polytopal. How...

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Autor: Pfeifle, Julián|||0000-0001-9777-2602
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/7764
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/7764
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Polytopes
Hamiltonian graph theory
Combinatory logic
Convex geometry
Politops
Lògica combinatòria
Geometria convexa
Hamilton, Sistemes de
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica discreta::Combinatòria
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Sumario:In 1988, Kalai [5] extended a construction of Billera and Lee to produce many triangulated(d−1)-spheres. In fact, in view of upper bounds on the number of simplicial d-polytopes by Goodman and Pollack [2,3], he derived that for every dimension d ≥ 5, most of these(d−1)-spheres are not polytopal. However, for d=4, this reasoning fails. We can now show that, as already conjectured by Kalai, all of his 3-spheres are in fact polytopal. We also give a shorter proof for Hebble and Lee’s result [4] that the dual graphs of these 4-polytopes are Hamiltonian.