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Surface realization with the intersection edge functional
Deciding realizability of a given polyhedral map on a (compact, connected)
surface belongs to the hard problems in discrete geometry, from the
theoretical, the algorithmic, and the practical point of view.
In this paper, we present a heuristic algorithm for the realization of
simplicial maps, based on the intersection edge functional. The heuristic was
used to find geometric realizations in R^3 for all vertex-minimal
triangulations of the orientable surfaces of genus g=3 and g=4. Moreover, for
the first time, examples of simplicial polyhedra in R^3 of genus 5 with 12
vertices were obtained.Comment: 22 pages, 11 figures, various minor revisions, to appear in
Experimental Mathematic
Triangulated Surfaces in Twistor Space: A Kinematical Set up for Open/Closed String Duality
We exploit the properties of the three-dimensional hyperbolic space to
discuss a simplicial setting for open/closed string duality based on (random)
Regge triangulations decorated with null twistorial fields. We explicitly show
that the twistorial N-points function, describing Dirichlet correlations over
the moduli space of open N-bordered genus g surfaces, is naturally mapped into
the Witten-Kontsevich intersection theory over the moduli space of N-pointed
closed Riemann surfaces of the same genus. We also discuss various aspects of
the geometrical setting which connects this model to PSL(2,C) Chern-Simons
theory.Comment: 35 pages, references added, slightly revised introductio
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