Triangulations of the sphere, bitrades and abelian groups

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2011-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/1112.5423v2

Mathematics

Combinatorics

22 pages; new version adds citation to Kourovka Notebook

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Let $G$ be a triangulation of the sphere with vertex set $V$, such that the faces of the triangulation are properly coloured black and white. Motivated by applications in the theory of bitrades, Cavenagh and Wanless defined $A_W$ to be the abelian group generated by the set $V$, with relations $r+c+s=0$ for all white triangles with vertices $r$, $c$ and $s$. The group $A_B$ can be defined similarly, using black triangles. The paper shows that $A_W$ and $A_B$ are isomorphic, thus establishing the truth of a well-known conjecture of Cavenagh and Wanless. Connections are made between the structure of $A_W$ and the theory of asymmetric Laplacians of finite directed graphs, and weaker results for orientable surfaces of higher genus are given. The relevance of the group $A_W$ to the understanding of the embeddings of a partial latin square in an abelian group is also explained.

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