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Combinatorial Seifert fibred spaces with transitive cyclic automorphism group
In combinatorial topology we aim to triangulate manifolds such that their
topological properties are reflected in the combinatorial structure of their
description. Here, we give a combinatorial criterion on when exactly
triangulations of 3-manifolds with transitive cyclic symmetry can be
generalised to an infinite family of such triangulations with similarly strong
combinatorial properties. In particular, we construct triangulations of Seifert
fibred spaces with transitive cyclic symmetry where the symmetry preserves the
fibres and acts non-trivially on the homology of the spaces. The triangulations
include the Brieskorn homology spheres , the lens spaces
and, as a limit case, .Comment: 28 pages, 9 figures. Minor update. To appear in Israel Journal of
Mathematic
Combinatorial triangulations of homology spheres
Let Mu be an n-vertex combinatorial triangulation of a Ζ2-homology d-sphere. In this paper we prove that if n ≤ d+8 then Mu must be a combinatorial sphere. Further, if n=d+9 and M is not a combinatorial sphere then Mu cannot admit any proper bistellar move. Existence of a 12-vertex triangulation of the lens space L(3,1) shows that the first result is sharp in dimension three. In the course of the proof we also show that anyΖ2-acyclic simplicial complex on ≤7 vertices is necessarily collapsible. This result is best possible since there exist 8-vertex triangulations of the Dunce Hat which are not collapsible
Stacked polytopes and tight triangulations of manifolds
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 a purely combinatorial condition which
implies the tightness of a triangulation.
Here we present other sufficient and purely combinatorial conditions which
can be applied to the odd-dimensional case as well. One of the conditions is
that all vertex links are stacked spheres, which implies that the triangulation
is in Walkup's class . We show that in any dimension
\emph{tight-neighborly} triangulations as defined by Lutz, Sulanke and Swartz
are tight.
Furthermore, triangulations with -stacked vertex links and the centrally
symmetric case are discussed.Comment: 28 pages, 2 figure
Minimal Triangulations of Manifolds
In this survey article, we are interested on minimal triangulations of closed
pl manifolds. We present a brief survey on the works done in last 25 years on
the following: (i) Finding the minimal number of vertices required to
triangulate a given pl manifold. (ii) Given positive integers and ,
construction of -vertex triangulations of different -dimensional pl
manifolds. (iii) Classifications of all the triangulations of a given pl
manifold with same number of vertices.
In Section 1, we have given all the definitions which are required for the
remaining part of this article. In Section 2, we have presented a very brief
history of triangulations of manifolds. In Section 3, we have presented
examples of several vertex-minimal triangulations. In Section 4, we have
presented some interesting results on triangulations of manifolds. In
particular, we have stated the Lower Bound Theorem and the Upper Bound Theorem.
In Section 5, we have stated several results on minimal triangulations without
proofs. Proofs are available in the references mentioned there.Comment: Survey article, 29 page
On stacked triangulated manifolds
We prove two results on stacked triangulated manifolds in this paper: (a)
every stacked triangulation of a connected manifold with or without boundary is
obtained from a simplex or the boundary of a simplex by certain combinatorial
operations; (b) in dimension , if is a tight connected
closed homology -manifold whose th homology vanishes for ,
then is a stacked triangulation of a manifold.These results give
affirmative answers to questions posed by Novik and Swartz and by Effenberger.Comment: 11 pages, minor changes in the organization of the paper, add
information about recent result
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