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Given a Delaunay decomposition of a compact hyperbolic surface, one may record the topological data of the decomposition, together with the intersection angles between the `empty disks' circumscribing the regions of the decomposition. The…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Gregory Leibon

We show that every triangulation (maximal planar graph) on $n\ge 6$ vertices can be flipped into a Hamiltonian triangulation using a sequence of less than $n/2$ combinatorial edge flips. The previously best upper bound uses $4$-connectivity…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Jean Cardinal , Michael Hoffmann , Vincent Kusters , Csaba D. Tóth , Manuel Wettstein

Simultaneous diagonal flips in plane triangulations are investigated. It is proved that every $n$-vertex triangulation with at least six vertices has a simultaneous flip into a 4-connected triangulation, and that it can be computed in O(n)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Prosenjit Bose , Jurek Czyzowicz , Zhicheng Gao , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

We consider the flip-width of geometric graphs, a notion of graph width recently introduced by Toru\'nczyk. We prove that many different types of geometric graphs have unbounded flip-width. These include interval graphs, permutation graphs,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-23 David Eppstein , Rose McCarty

We describe some theoretical results on triangulations of surfaces and we develop a theory on roots, decompositions and genus-surfaces. We apply this theory to describe an algorithm to list all triangulations of closed surfaces with at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Gennaro Amendola

This paper is about the geometry of flip-graphs associated to triangulations of surfaces. More precisely, we consider a topological surface with a privileged boundary curve and study the spaces of its triangulations with n vertices on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Hugo Parlier , Lionel Pournin

A topologically minimal surface may be isotoped into a normal form with respect to a fixed triangulation. If the intersection with each tetrahedron is simply connected, then the pieces of this normal form are triangles, quadrilaterals, and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-16 David Bachman , Ryan Derby-Talbot , Eric Sedgwick

Consider a graph drawn on a surface (for example, the plane minus a finite set of obstacle points), possibly with crossings. We provide an algorithm to decide whether such a drawing can be untangled, namely, if one can slide the vertices…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Éric Colin de Verdière , Vincent Despré , Loïc Dubois

The space of topological decompositions into triangulations of a surface has a natural graph structure where two triangulations share an edge if they are related by a so-called flip. This space is a sort of combinatorial Teichm\"uller space…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Valentina Disarlo , Hugo Parlier

A degree-regular triangulation is one in which each vertex has identical degree. Our main result is that any such triangulation of a (possibly non-compact) surface $S$ is geometric, that is, it is combinatorially equivalent to a geodesic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-06 Basudeb Datta , Subhojoy Gupta

A triangulation of a surface with fixed topological type is called irreducible if no edge can be contracted to a vertex while remaining in the category of simplicial complexes and preserving the topology of the surface. A complete list of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-09 S. Lawrencenko , T. Sulanke , M. T. Villar , L. V. Zgonnik , M. J. Chávez , J. R. Portillo

It is conjectured that every cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold admits a geometric triangulation, i.e. it is decomposed into positive volume ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra. Here, we show that sufficiently highly twisted knots admit a geometric…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Sophie L. Ham , Jessica S. Purcell

We show that the triangulations of a finite point set form a flip graph that can be embedded isometrically into a hypercube, if and only if the point set has no empty convex pentagon. Point sets of this type include convex subsets of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-12 David Eppstein

A triangulation of a surface is irreducible if there is no edge whose contraction produces another triangulation of the surface. In this work we propose an algorithm that constructs the set of irreducible triangulations of any surface with…

This paper presents some finiteness results for the number of boundary slopes of immersed essential surfaces of given genus g in a compact 3-manifold with torus boundary. In the case of hyperbolic 3-manifolds we obtain uniform quadratic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel Hass , J. Hyam Rubinstein , Shicheng Wang

In this paper we introduce flat grafting as a deformation of quadratic differentials on a surface of finite type that is analogous to the grafting map on hyperbolic surfaces. Flat grafting maps are generic in the strata structure and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Ser-Wei Fu

Given a topological cell decomposition of a closed surface equipped with edge weights, we consider the Dirichlet energy of any geodesic realization of the 1-skeleton graph to a hyperbolic surface. By minimizing the energy over all possible…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Wai Yeung Lam

We establish a connection between two previously unrelated topics: a particular discrete version of conformal geometry for triangulated surfaces, and the geometry of ideal polyhedra in hyperbolic three-space. Two triangulated surfaces are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Alexander Bobenko , Ulrich Pinkall , Boris Springborn

We consider ``hyperideal'' circle patterns, i.e. patterns of disks appearing in the definition of the Delaunay decomposition associated to a set of disjoint disks, possibly with cone singularities at the center of those disks. Hyperideal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-20 Jean-Marc Schlenker

Strata of translation surfaces are covered by the closures of finitely many iso-Delaunay regions: open subspaces parametrizing surfaces whose Delaunay triangulations are combinatorially equivalent. We prove that the iso-Delaunay regions for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Sam Freedman , Bradley Zykoski