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A fixed set of vertices in the plane may have multiple planar straight-line triangulations in which the degree of each vertex is the same. As such, the degree information does not completely determine the triangulation. We show that even if…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Erin Chambers , Tim Ophelders , Anna Schenfisch , Julia Sollberger

Flip graphs are a ubiquitous class of graphs, which encode relations induced on a set of combinatorial objects by elementary, local changes. Skeletons of associahedra, for instance, are the graphs induced by quadrilateral flips in…

In this paper, we show that the oriented diameter of any $n$-vertex $2$-connected near triangulation is at most $\lceil{\frac{n}{2}}\rceil$ (except for seven small exceptions), and the upper bound is tight. This extends a result of Wang…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Yiwei Ge , Xiaonan Liu , Zhiyu Wang

We obtain new upper and lower bounds on the number of unit perimeter triangles spanned by points in the plane. We also establish improved bounds in the special case where the point set is a section of the integer grid.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Ritesh Goenka , Kenneth Moore , Ethan Patrick White

How good is a triangulation as an approximation of a smooth curved surface or manifold? We provide bounds on the {\em interpolation error}, the error in the position of the surface, and the {\em normal error}, the error in the normal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Marc Khoury , Jonathan Richard Shewchuk

A triangulation of a polygon is a subdivision of it into triangles, using diagonals between its vertices. Two different triangulations of a polygon can be related by a sequence of flips: a flip replaces a diagonal by the unique other…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Karin Baur , Diana Bergerova , Jenni Voon , Lejie Xu

We consider whether any two triangulations of a polygon or a point set on a non-planar surface with a given metric can be transformed into each other by a sequence of edge flips. The answer is negative in general with some remarkable…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-02 C. Cortes , C. I. Grima , F. Hurtado , A. Marquez , F. Santos , J. Valenzuela

A perfect straight-line matching $M$ on a finite set $P$ of points in the plane is a set of segments such that each point in $P$ is an endpoint of exactly one segment. $M$ is non-crossing if no two segments in $M$ cross each other. Given a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Édouard Bonnet , Tillmann Miltzow

We associate to triangulations of infinite type surface a type of flip graph where simultaneous flips are allowed. Our main focus is on understanding exactly when two triangulations can be related by a sequence of flips. A consequence of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-05 Ariadna Fossas , Hugo Parlier

The objects of study are triangulations of the dilated standard triangle in the plane. Motivated by work on T-curves (Geiselmann et al., 2026), the focus lies on unimodular triangulations with a fixed symmetry axis. Lower and upper bounds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Kamillo Ferry , Michael Joswig , Jörg Rambau

We introduce remarkable upper bounds for the interpolation error constants on triangles, which are sharp and given by simple formulas. These constants are crucial in analyzing interpolation errors, particularly those associated with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Kenta Kobayashi

We give an overview of the 2026 Computational Geometry Challenge targeting the problem of finding a Central Triangulation under Parallel Flip Operations in triangulations of point sets. A flip is the parallel exchange of a set of edges in a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Oswin Aichholzer , Joseph Dorfer , Sándor P. Fekete , Phillip Keldenich , Peter Kramer , Stefan Schirra

We study an old geometric optimization problem in the plane. Given a perfect matching $M$ on a set of $n$ points in the plane, we can transform it to a non-crossing perfect matching by a finite sequence of flip operations. The flip…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Ahmad Biniaz , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid

This paper gives sharp linear bounds on the genus of a normal surface in a triangulated compact, orientable 3--manifold in terms of the quadrilaterals in its cell decomposition---different bounds arise from varying hypotheses on the surface…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-20 William Jaco , Jesse Johnson , Jonathan Spreer , Stephan Tillmann

For a set $P$ of $n$ points in general position in the plane, the flip graph $F(P)$ has a vertex for each non-crossing spanning tree on $P$ and an edge between any two spanning trees that can be transformed into each other by one edge flip.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Linda Kleist , Torsten Ueckerdt , Birgit Vogtenhuber

We prove an exponential upper bound for the number $f(m,n)$ of all maximal triangulations of the $m\times n$ grid: \[ f(m,n) < 2^{3mn}. \] In particular, this improves a result of S. Yu. Orevkov (1999).

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Emile E. Anclin

In this survey article, we are interested on minimal triangulations of closed pl manifolds. We present a brief survey on the works done in last 25 years on the following: (i) Finding the minimal number of vertices required to triangulate a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Basudeb Datta

We consider spanning trees of $n$ points in convex position whose edges are pairwise non-crossing. Applying a flip to such a tree consists in adding an edge and removing another so that the result is still a non-crossing spanning tree.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Nicolas Bousquet , Valentin Gledel , Jonathan Narboni , Théo Pierron

Delaunay flip is an elegant, simple tool to convert a triangulation of a point set to its Delaunay triangulation. The technique has been researched extensively for full dimensional triangulations of point sets. However, an important case of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-12-13 Siu-Wing Cheng , Tamal K. Dey

The hull perimeter at distance d in a planar map with two marked vertices at distance k from each other is the length of the closed curve separating these two vertices and lying at distance d from the first one (d<k). We study the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Emmanuel Guitter