Dual matroids of 2-complexes -- revisited

Publication date 27 October 2022

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Hypergraphs (05C65) Graph minors (05C83) Embedding theorems for complex manifolds (32Q40)

Abstract: We prove that simply connected local 2-dimensional simplicial complexes embed in 3-space if and only if their dual matroids are graphic. Examples are provided that the assumptions of simply connectedness and locality are necessary. This may be regarded as a 3-dimensional analogue of Whitney's planarity criterion from 1932.

This page was built for publication: Dual matroids of 2-complexes -- revisited

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6415344)