Generating projective plane polyhedral maps (Q2641311)

A projective plane polyhedral map is a cell-complex decomposing the projective plane. The author succeeds in determining such a minimal set S of even complexes and a set C of constructions performed on them that every projective polyhedral plane map can be generated from members of S by repeated application of members of C. [For polyhedral maps in the Euclidean plane cf. \textit{E. Steinitz} and \textit{H. Rademacher}, ``Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Polyeder unter Einschluß der Elemente der Topologie'' (1934; Zbl 0009.36503).]