730 research outputs found
Colorful Associahedra and Cyclohedra
Every n-edge colored n-regular graph G naturally gives rise to a simple
abstract n-polytope, the colorful polytope of G, whose 1-skeleton is isomorphic
to G. The paper describes colorful polytope versions of the associahedron and
cyclohedron. Like their classical counterparts, the colorful associahedron and
cyclohedron encode triangulations and flips, but now with the added feature
that the diagonals of the triangulations are colored and adjacency of
triangulations requires color preserving flips. The colorful associahedron and
cyclohedron are derived as colorful polytopes from the edge colored graph whose
vertices represent these triangulations and whose colors on edges represent the
colors of flipped diagonals.Comment: 21 pp, to appear in Journal Combinatorial Theory
On signed diagonal flip sequences
Eliahou \cite{2} and Kryuchkov \cite{9} conjectured a proposition that
Gravier and Payan \cite{4} proved to be equivalent to the Four Color Theorem.
It states that any triangulation of a polygon can be transformed into another
triangulation of the same polygon by a sequence of signed diagonal flips. It is
well known that any pair of polygonal triangulations are connected by a
sequence of (non-signed) diagonal flips. In this paper we give a sufficient and
necessary condition for a diagonal flip sequence to be a signed diagonal flip
sequence.Comment: 11 pages, 24 figures, to appear in European Journal of Combinatoric
A new Kempe invariant and the (non)-ergodicity of the Wang-Swendsen-Kotecky algorithm
We prove that for the class of three-colorable triangulations of a closed
oriented surface, the degree of a four-coloring modulo 12 is an invariant under
Kempe changes. We use this general result to prove that for all triangulations
T(3L,3M) of the torus with 3<= L <= M, there are at least two Kempe equivalence
classes. This result implies in particular that the Wang-Swendsen-Kotecky
algorithm for the zero-temperature 4-state Potts antiferromagnet on these
triangulations T(3L,3M) of the torus is not ergodic.Comment: 37 pages (LaTeX2e). Includes tex file and 3 additional style files.
The tex file includes 14 figures using pstricks.sty. Minor changes. Version
published in J. Phys.
Note on the Irreducible Triangulations of the Klein Bottle
We give the complete list of the 29 irreducible triangulations of the Klein
bottle. We show how the construction of Lawrencenko and Negami, which listed
only 25 such irreducible triangulations, can be modified at two points to
produce the 4 additional irreducible triangulations of the Klein bottle.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Journal of Combinatorial Theory,
Series B. Section 3 expande
Asymptotically efficient triangulations of the d-cube
Let and be polytopes, the first of "low" dimension and the second of
"high" dimension. We show how to triangulate the product
efficiently (i.e., with few simplices) starting with a given triangulation of
. Our method has a computational part, where we need to compute an efficient
triangulation of , for a (small) natural number of our
choice. denotes the -simplex.
Our procedure can be applied to obtain (asymptotically) efficient
triangulations of the cube : We decompose , for
a small . Then we recursively assume we have obtained an efficient
triangulation of the second factor and use our method to triangulate the
product. The outcome is that using and , we can triangulate
with simplices, instead of the achievable
before.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures. Only minor changes from previous versions, some
suggested by anonymous referees. Paper accepted in "Discrete and
Computational Geometry
Multi-triangulations as complexes of star polygons
Maximal -crossing-free graphs on a planar point set in convex
position, that is, -triangulations, have received attention in recent
literature, with motivation coming from several interpretations of them.
We introduce a new way of looking at -triangulations, namely as complexes
of star polygons. With this tool we give new, direct, proofs of the fundamental
properties of -triangulations, as well as some new results. This
interpretation also opens-up new avenues of research, that we briefly explore
in the last section.Comment: 40 pages, 24 figures; added references, update Section
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