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Spheres are rare

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

We prove that triangulations of homology spheres in any dimension grow much slower than general triangulations. Our bound states in particular that the number of triangulations of homology spheres in 3 dimensions grows at most like the power 1/3 of the number of general triangulations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1303.7371,
  title  = {Spheres are rare},
  author = {Vincent Rivasseau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.7371},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure

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