Acute triangulations of polyhedra and R^N

DOI10.1007/S00493-012-2691-2zbMATH Open1265.52014arXiv0909.3706OpenAlexW2067544887MaRDI QIDQ452820FDOQ452820

Authors: Eryk Kopczyński, Igor Pak, Piotr Przytycki 

Publication date: 17 September 2012

Published in: Combinatorica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the problem of acute triangulations of convex polyhedra and the space R^n. Here an acute triangulation is a triangulation into simplices whose dihedral angles are acute. We prove that acute triangulations of the n-cube do not exist for n>=4. Further, we prove that acute triangulations of the space R^n do not exist for n>= 5. In the opposite direction, in R^3, we present a construction of an acute triangulation of the cube, the regular octahedron and a non-trivial acute triangulation of the regular tetrahedron. We also prove nonexistence of an acute triangulation of R^4 if all dihedral angles are bounded away from pi/2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3706

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zbMATH Keywords

cubedihedral angle4-manifoldacute simplexDehn-Sommerville equationsflag-no-square triangulationoctahedronperiodic triangulationrich triangulationspecial subdivision

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22)

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