Nonconvex embeddings of the exceptional simplicial 3-spheres with 8 vertices

DOI10.1006/JCTA.2001.3228MaRDI QIDQ1601422zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Mihalisin, Gordon Williams

Publication date 15 January 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/c9211d7dc119e673a853871af36ceb6274a4fbb5

zbMATH Keywords

Brückner spherefacet graphsimple polytopessimplicial polytopessimplicial spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05)

Review text

Based on early work of M. Brückner (1909), in 1967 \textit{B. Grünbaum} and \textit{V. P. Sreedharan} [J. Comb. Theory 2, 437-465 (1967; Zbl 0156.43304)] completely enumerated the simplicial 4-polytopes with 8 vertices. They showed that there are 37 examples which can be realized as boundary complexes of convex 4-polytopes, while a further example of Brückner cannot be represented in this way. In 1969, D. Barnette found an additional non-polytopal 3-sphere with 8 vertices, later also proving that this list of altogether 39 spheres with 8 vertices is complete. Continuing this, the authors prove that the latter two 3-spheres are embeddable as geometric simplicial complexes into \(R^4\), but neither is convexly embeddable there. At the end of the paper, two conjectures are posed, one says that each shellable combinatorial simplicial \(d\)-sphere is embeddable in \(\mathbb{R}^{d+1}\).

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