Stacked polytopes and tight triangulations of manifolds

Details Stacked polytopes and tight triangulations of manifolds Stacked polytopes and tight triangulations of manifolds

2009-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/0911.5037v3

Mathematics

Geometric Topology

28 pages, 2 figures

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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 $\mathcal{K}(d)$. We show that in any dimension $d\geq 4$ \emph{tight-neighborly} triangulations as defined by Lutz, Sulanke and Swartz are tight. Furthermore, triangulations with $k$-stacked vertex links and the centrally symmetric case are discussed.

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