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Elementary moves on triangulations

Metric Geometry 2019-10-08 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

It is proved that a triangulation of a polyhedron can always be transformed into any other triangulation of the polyhedron by using only elementary moves. One consequence is that an additive function (valuation) defined only on simplices may always be extended to an additive function on all polyhedra.

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@article{arxiv.math/0506564,
  title  = {Elementary moves on triangulations},
  author = {Monika Ludwig and Matthias Reitzner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0506564},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

10 pages; some corrections, extended proofs of Lemma 4 and Corollary 3