Minimal crystallizations of 3-manifolds

zbMATH Open1297.57055arXiv1308.6137MaRDI QIDQ405166FDOQ405166

Basudeb Datta, Biplab Basak

Publication date: 4 September 2014

Published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We have introduced the weight of a group which has a presentation with number of relations is at most the number of generators. We have shown that the number of facets of any contracted pseudotriangulation of a connected closed 3-manifold $M$ is at least the weight of $pi(M,ast)$. This lower bound is sharp for the 3-manifolds $mathbb{RP}^3$, $L(3,1)$, $L(5,2)$, $S^{1}imes{S}^{1}imes{S}^1$, $S^{2}imes{S}^1$, $$ imes hspace{-2.8mm}_{-}$$ and $S^3/Q_8$, where $Q_8$ is the quaternion group. Moreover, there is a unique such facet minimal pseudotriangulation in each of these seven cases. We have also constructed contracted pseudotriangulations of $L(kq-1,q)$ with $4(q+k-1)$ facets for $qgeq3$, $kgeq2$ and $L(kq+1,q)$ with $4(q+k)$ facets for $qgeq4$, $kgeq1$. By a recent result of Swartz, our pseudotriangulations of $L(kq+1,q)$ are facet minimal when $kq+1$ are even. In 1979, Gagliardi found presentations of the fundamental group of a manifold $M$ in terms of a contracted pseudotriangulation of $M$. Our construction is the converse of this, namely, given a presentation of the fundamental group of a 3-manifold $M$, we construct a contracted pseudotriangulation of $M$. So, our construction of a contracted pseudotriangulation of a 3-manifold $M$ is based on a presentation of the fundamental group of $M$ and it is computer-free.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.6137

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zbMATH Keywords

lens spacespseudotriangulations of manifoldscrystallizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of complexes (57Q05) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

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