An impediment to polyhedrality

DOI10.1016/0097-3165(88)90013-1MaRDI QIDQ1106470zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. W. Barnette

Publication date 1988

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0097-3165(88)90013-1

zbMATH Keywords

non-polyhedral spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polytopes and polyhedra (52Bxx)

Review text

A triangulated 3-sphere is called polyhedral if it is isomorphic to the boundary complex of a 4-dimensional convex polytope. The author constructs a certain complex C of six triangles which when embedded in a 3-sphere will prevent the polyhedrality of the sphere. It is shown that spheres with this subcomplex C cannot be invertible. Furthermore, adding a suitable triangle to C gives a complex which prevents the existence of a dual diagram for any 3-sphere into which the complex is embedded.

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