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Survey on tight triangulated manifolds and their properties.

A triangulated $d$-manifold $K$, satisfies the inequality $\binom{f_0(K)-d-1}{2}\geq \binom{d+2}{2}β_1(K;\mathbb{Z}_2)$ for $d\geq 3$. The triangulated $d$-manifolds that meet the bound with equality are called {\em tight neighborly}. In this paper, we present tight neighborly triangulations of 4-manifolds on 15 vertic…

We survey basic properties and bounds for $q$-equivelar and $d$-covered triangulations of closed surfaces. Included in the survey is a list of the known sources for $q$-equivelar and $d$-covered triangulations. We identify all orientable and non-orientable surfaces $M$ of Euler characteristic $0>χ(M)\geq -230$ which ad…

We give an explicit construction of vertex-transitive tight triangulations of $d$-manifolds for $d\geq 2$. More explicitly, for each $d\geq 2$, we construct two $(d^2+5d+5)$-vertex neighborly triangulated $d$-manifolds whose vertex-links are stacked spheres. The only other non-trivial series of such tight triangulated …

For $d\geq 2$, Walkup's class $\Kd$ consists of the $d$-dimensional simplicial complexes whose vertex-links are stacked $(d-1)$-spheres. Recently Lutz, Sulanke and Swartz have shown that all $\mathbb{F}$-orientable triangulated $d$-manifolds satisfy the inequality $\binom{f_0-d-1}{2} \geq \binom{d+2}{2}β_1$ for $d\geq …

Tightness of a triangulated manifold is a topological condition, roughly meaning that any simplexwise linear embedding of the triangulation into euclidean space is "as convex as possible". It can thus be understood as a generalization of the concept of convexity. In even dimensions, super-neighborliness is known to be …

3-manifold triangulations are Golod and tight, proven through a topological characterization.

Disproves polyhedral immersions of two specific triangulations on a non-orientable surface.

For $d \geq 2$, Walkup's class ${\cal K}(d)$ consists of the $d$-dimensional simplicial complexes all whose vertex-links are stacked $(d-1)$-spheres. Kalai showed that for $d \geq 4$, all connected members of ${\cal K}(d)$ are obtained from stacked $d$-spheres by finitely many elementary handle additions. According to …

Walkup's class ${\cal K}(d)$ consists of the $d$-dimensional simplicial complexes all whose vertex links are stacked $(d-1)$-spheres. According to a result of Walkup, the face vector of any triangulated 4-manifold $X$ with Euler characteristic $χ$ satisfies $f_1 \geq 5f_0 - 15/2 χ$, with equality only for $X \in {\cal …

We prove a number of new restrictions on the enumerative properties of homology manifolds and semi-Eulerian complexes and posets. These include a determination of the affine span of the fine $h$-vector of balanced semi-Eulerian complexes and the toric $h$-vector of semi-Eulerian posets. The lower bounds on simplicial h…

A submanifold $M \subset R^N$ is $r$-neighborly if for any $r$ points in $M$ there is a hyperplane, supporting $M$ and touching it at exactly these $r$ points. We prove that the minimal dimension $Δ(k,r)$ of the Euclidean space, containing a stably $r$-neighborly submanifold, is asymptotically not smaller than $2kr-k$.

The article provides formulas for the number of terms in connected sums of sphere products associated with dual-neighborly polytopes.

We investigate polyhedral $2k$-manifolds as subcomplexes of the boundary complex of a regular polytope. We call such a subcomplex {\it $k$-Hamiltonian} if it contains the full $k$-skeleton of the polytope. Since the case of the cube is well known and since the case of a simplex was also previously studied (these are so…

New cube complexes disprove Kalai's conjecture about sphere facets.

We investigate slicings of combinatorial manifolds as properly embedded co-dimension 1 submanifolds. A focus is given to dimension 3 where slicings are normal surfaces. In the case of 2-neighborly 3-manifolds and quadrangulated slicings, a lower bound on the number of quadrilaterals of normal surfaces depending on the …

In this article we give combinatorial criteria to decide whether a transitive cyclic combinatorial d-manifold can be generalized to an infinite family of such complexes, together with an explicit construction in the case that such a family exists. In addition, we substantially extend the classification of combinatorial…

Connected flip graphs for triangulations on hyperbolic surfaces.

New isolated geometric triangulations found in once-punctured torus bundles.

Study distances between triangulations on surfaces via simultaneous flips.

Efficient triangulations help in understanding 3-manifold boundaries.

A 6-regular triangulation for hyperbolic plane created.

New manifold examples found in higher dimensions.

The study proves poor ideal three-edge triangulations are minimal for certain 3-manifolds.

A family of one-vertex triangulations of 3-manifolds, layered-triangulations, is defined. Layered-triangulations are first described for handlebodies and then extended to all 3-manifolds via Heegaard splittings. A complete and detailed analysis of layered-triangulations is given in the cases of the solid torus and lens…

Geometric triangulations can be transformed by bistellar moves.

Triangulations without degree one edges are connected via moves.

A triangulation of a connected closed surface is called weakly regular if the action of its automorphism group on its vertices is transitive. A triangulation of a connected closed surface is called degree-regular if each of its vertices have the same degree. Clearly, a weakly regular triangulation is degree-regular. In…

Minimal triangulations for 229 hyperbolic census knots discovered.

Agol recently introduced the concept of a veering taut triangulation, which is a taut triangulation with some extra combinatorial structure. We define the weaker notion of a "veering triangulation" and use it to show that all veering triangulations admit strict angle structures. We also answer a question of Agol, givin…

Smooth structures enable solving PDEs via optimized triangulations.

Authors find small triangulations for specific 4-manifolds.

New bounds show triangulated surfaces are evenly distributed in moduli space.

The paper constructs triangulations for double twist knots using geometric methods.

Combinatorial description of 3-manifolds using ordered triangulations.

Minimal ideal triangulations studied for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Experimental results on veering triangulations of 3-manifolds.

Researchers found the minimum number of tetrahedra needed to triangulate elliptic and sol 3-manifolds.

With the $[0,1,2]$-family of cyclic triangulations we introduce a rich class of vertex-transitive triangulations of surfaces. In particular, there are infinite series of cyclic $q$-equivelar triangulations of orientable and non-orientable surfaces for every $q=3k$, $k\geq 2$, and every $q=3k+1$, $k\geq 3$. Series of cy…

New loom spaces link flows and triangulations.

New method connects veering triangulations to dynamic pairs.

New triangulations encode flows with vanishing polynomial.

Proofs contractibility of geodesic triangulations spaces and non-trivial homotopy groups.

0-efficient triangulations of 3-manifolds are defined and studied. It is shown that any triangulation of a closed, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold M can be modified to a 0-efficient triangulation or M can be shown to be one of the manifolds S^3, RP^3 or L(3,1). Similarly, any triangulation of a compact, orientable, …

This paper derives formulas for Chern classes of triangulated circle bundles using combinatorial necklaces.

Researchers create minimal triangulations for quasitoric 4-manifolds.

The notion of a layered triangulation of a lens space was defined by Jaco and Rubinstein in earlier work, and, unless the lens space is L(3,1), a layered triangulation with the minimal number of tetrahedra was shown to be unique and termed its "minimal layered triangulation." This paper proves that for each integer n>1…

297 unique triangulations found for a punctured torus.