Combinatorics of triangulations of $3$-manifolds
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Abstract:
In this paper, we study the average edge order of triangulations of closed $3$-manifolds and show in particular that the average edge order being less than $4.5$ implies that triangulation is on the $3$-sphere.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1993 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 337 (1993), 891-906
- MSC: Primary 57Q15; Secondary 57M15
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1993-1134759-6
- MathSciNet review: 1134759