Catalan triangulations of the Möbius band (Q1376059)

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Catalan triangulations of the Möbius band
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    Catalan triangulations of the Möbius band (English)
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    29 June 1998
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    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.
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    Catalan triangulation
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    Möbius band
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    simplicial complex
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    generating function
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