Non-starshaped spheres
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Non-starshaped spheres
zbMATH Open document ID: 0769.52006
DOI: 10.1007/BF01197060
author: Günter Ewald
author: Christoph Schulz
published in: Archiv der Mathematik
publication date: 1993-02-10T00:00:00Z
review text: 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.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52A30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14M25
zbMATH DE Number: 119869
zbMATH Keywords: non-starshaped spheres
zbMATH Keywords: classification of toric varieties
reviewed by: William J. Firey
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01197060
OpenAlex ID: W1997547417
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