Catalan triangulations of the Möbius band (Q1376059): Difference between revisions

A Catalan triangulation of the Möbius band is an abstract simplicial complex that uses no interior vertices. The authors present a generating function for the number of triangulations with \(n\) vertices analogous to that for Catalan triangulations of the disk [see, for example, \textit{D. D. Sleator}, \textit{R. E. Tarjan} and \textit{W. P. Thurston}, Rotation distance, triangulations, and hyperbolic geometry, J. Am. Math. Soc. 1, No. 3, 647-681 (1988; Zbl 0653.51017)]. They also show that any two such triangulations are connected by a sequence of diagonal flips.