A 15-vertex triangulation of the quaternionic projective plane

DOI10.1007/s00454-018-00055-wzbMath1425.57016arXiv1603.05541OpenAlexW2964028703WikidataQ127678560 ScholiaQ127678560MaRDI QIDQ2316796

Denis Gorodkov

Publication date: 7 August 2019

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry, Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.05541

zbMATH Keywords

triangulationcharacteristic classesMorse functioncombinatorial topologyminimal triangulationsPontryagin classesquaternionic projective plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Triangulating (57R05)

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Uses Software

• GAP
• simpcomp

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