Non-starshaped spheres
A simplicial \((d-1)\)-sphere \(S\) is a finite simplicial complex in Euclidean space \(\mathbb{E}^ n\) whose underlying point set is a topological sphere. \(S\) is called starshaped when it is isomorphic to some \(S' \subseteq \mathbb{E}^ d\) bounding a \(d\)-ball which is starshaped with respect to one of its interior points. This last is taken in a strong sense: if \(x\) is the interior point and \(y\) is in \(S'\), then the closed segment joining \(x\) and \(y\) meets \(S'\) in \(y\) alone. In this paper the authors construct \((d-1)\)-spheres which cannot be embedded in \(\mathbb{E}^ d\) as starshaped sets. More precisely they show that, for any \(d \geq 4\), there are non-starshaped simplicial \((d-1)\)- spheres in \(\mathbb{E}^ d\) which have \(d+8\) vertices. They develop consequences which shed some light on the classification of toric varieties in algebraic geometry. Some text seems to be missing at the end of the first paragraph.
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 119869