Combinatorial 3-manifolds with 10 vertices

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Abstract: We give a complete enumeration of all combinatorial 3-manifolds with 10 vertices: There are precisely 247882 triangulated 3-spheres with 10 vertices as well as 518 vertex-minimal triangulations of the sphere product S2imesS1 and 615 triangulations of the twisted sphere product Si2mesS1. All the 3-spheres with up to 10 vertices are shellable, but there are 29 vertex-minimal non-shellable 3-balls with 9 vertices.


This paper presents a computer aided enumeration of all combinatorial 3-manifolds with 10 vertices. There are 249015 items, most of them are combinatorial spheres. However, there are 518 distinct triangulations of the product \(S^2\times S^1\) and 615 distinct triangulations of the corresponding twisted product. This extends previous enumerations by A. Altshuler and L. Steinberg. Moreover, it is shown that all spheres with up to 10 vertices are shellable even though it turned out that there are 29 vertex-minimal non-shellable 3-balls with 9 vertices.











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