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We show that four of the five Platonic solids' surfaces may be cut open with a Hamiltonian path along edges and unfolded to a polygonal net each of which can "zipper-refold" to a flat doubly covered parallelogram, forming a rather compact…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-10-21 Joseph O'Rourke

The Vietoris-Rips complex, denoted $R_\beta(X)$, of a metric space $(X,d)$ at scale $\beta$ is an abstract simplicial complex where each $k$-simplex corresponds to $(k+1)$ points of $X$ within diameter $\beta$. For any abstract simplicial…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Kazuhiro Kawamura , Sushovan Majhi , Atish Mitra

Many simplicial complexes arising in practice have an associated metric space structure on the vertex set but not on the complex, e.g. the Vietoris-Rips complex in applied topology. We formalize a remedy by introducing a category of…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Henry Adams , Johnathan Bush , Joshua Mirth

Vietoris-Rips metric thickenings have previously been proposed as an alternate approach to understanding Vietoris-Rips simplicial complexes and their persistent homology. Recent work has shown that for totally bounded metric spaces,…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Michael Moy

Selective Rips complexes corresponding to a sequence of parameters are a generalization of Vietoris-Rips complexes utilizing the idea of thin simplices. We prove that if a metric space $Y$ is close (in Gromov-Hausdorff distance) to a closed…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Boštjan Lemež , Žiga Virk

Fix a finite set of points in Euclidean $n$-space $\euc^n$, thought of as a point-cloud sampling of a certain domain $D\subset\euc^n$. The Rips complex is a combinatorial simplicial complex based on proximity of neighbors that serves as an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-12-05 Erin W. Chambers , Vin de Silva , Jeff Erickson , Robert Ghrist

This article introduces the theory of Veronese polytopes, a broad generalisation of cyclic polytopes. These arise as convex hulls of points on curves with one or more connected components, obtained as the image of the rational normal curve…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Marie-Charlotte Brandenburg , Roland Púček

This paper considers Platonic solids/polytopes in the real Euclidean space R^n of dimension 3 <= n < infinity. The Platonic solids/polytopes are described together with their faces of dimensions 0 <= d <= n-1. Dual pairs of Platonic…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Marzena Szajewska

A simple convex polytope $P$ is \emph{cohomologically rigid} if its combinatorial structure is determined by the cohomology ring of a quasitoric manifold over $P$. Not every $P$ has this property, but some important polytopes such as…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Suyoung Choi , Taras Panov , Dong Youp Suh

Classical methods to model topological properties of point clouds, such as the Vietoris-Rips complex, suffer from the combinatorial explosion of complex sizes. We propose a novel technique to approximate a multi-scale filtration of the Rips…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Aruni Choudhary , Michael Kerber , Sharath Raghvendra

For a metric space $X$ and $r \geq 0$, the Vietoris-Rips complex $\mathcal{VR}(X;r)$ is a simplicial complex whose simplices are finite subsets of $X$ with diameter at most $r$. Vietoris-Rips complexes have applications in various places,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Raju Kumar Gupta , Sourav Sarkar , Samir Shukla

We describe an algorithm to enumerate polytopes. This algorithm is then implemented to give a complete classification of combinatorial spheres of dimension 3 with 9 vertices and decide polytopality of those spheres. In particular, we…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-19 Moritz Firsching

In the analysis of three-dimensional biological microstructures such as organoids, microscopy frequently yields two-dimensional optical sections without access to their orientation. Motivated by the question of whether such random planar…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Andreas Thom

The complement of the codimension 2 complex coordinate subspace arrangement is shown to be homotopy equivalent to a wedge of spheres.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jelena Grbic , Stephen Theriault

The matching complex of a graph $G$ is a simplicial complex whose simplices are matchings in $G$. In the last few years the matching complexes of grid graphs have gained much attention among the topological combinatorists. In 2017, Braun…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Shuchita Goyal , Samir Shukla , Anurag Singh

Extending previous results on a characterization of all equilateral triangle in space having vertices with integer coordinates ("in $\mathbb Z^3$"), we look at the problem of characterizing all regular polyhedra (Platonic Solids) with the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-10-12 Eugen J. Ionascu , Andrei Markov

Skeletal polyhedra and polygonal complexes in ordinary Euclidean 3-space are finite or infinite 3-periodic structures with interesting geometric, combinatorial, and algebraic properties. They can be viewed as finite or infinite 3-periodic…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-03-04 Egon Schulte

We introduce weighted versions of the classical \v{C}ech and Vietoris-Rips complexes. We show that a version of the Vietoris-Rips Lemma holds for these weighted complexes and that they enjoy appropriate stability properties. We also give…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Greg Bell , Austin Lawson , Joshua Martin , James Rudzinski , Clifford Smyth

We consider the $N$-vortex problem on the sphere assuming that all vortices have equal strength. We develop a theoretical framework to analyse solutions of the equations of motion with prescribed symmetries. Our construction relies on the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Carlos García-Azpeitia , Luis C. García-Naranjo

We determine the homotopy types of the independence complexes of the $(n \times 6)$-square grid graphs. In fact, we show that these complexes are homotopy equivalent to wedges of spheres.

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Takahiro Matsushita , Shun Wakatsuki