Flip-graphs of non-orientable filling surfaces
Abstract
Consider a surface with punctures that serve as marked points and at least one marked point on each boundary component. We build a filling surface by singling out one of the boundary components and denoting by the number of marked points it contains. We consider the triangulations of whose vertices are the marked points and the associated flip-graph . Quotienting by the homeomorphisms of that fix the privileged boundary component results in a finite graph . Bounds on the diameter of are available when is orientable and we provide corresponding bounds when is non-orientable. We show that the diameter of this graph grows at least like and at most like as goes to infinity. If is an unpunctured M\"obius strip, coincides with and we prove that the diameter of this graph grows exactly like as goes to infinity.
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@article{arxiv.2505.04074,
title = {Flip-graphs of non-orientable filling surfaces},
author = {Pallavi Panda and Hugo Parlier and Lionel Pournin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.04074},
year = {2025}
}
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37 pages, 17 figures