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A $3$-polytope is a $3$-connected, planar graph. It is called unigraphic if it does not share its vertex degree sequence with any other $3$-polytope, up to graph isomorphism. The classification of unigraphic $3$-polytopes appears to be a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Riccardo W. Maffucci

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in general position on the plane. A set of closed convex polygons with vertices in $P$, and with pairwise disjoint interiors is called a convex decomposition of $P$ if their union is the convex hull of $P$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Toshinori Sakai , Jorge Urrutia

We study the problem of whether rectangular polyominoes with holes are cube-foldable, that is, whether they can be folded into a cube, if creases are only allowed along grid lines. It is known that holes of sufficient size guarantee that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Florian Lehner , Benjamin Shirley

A triangulation of a punctured or pinched surface is irreducible if no edge can be shrunk without producing multiple edges or changing the topological type of the surface. The finiteness of the set of (non-isomorphic) irreducible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-04 M. J. Chávez , S. Lawrencenko , A. Quintero , M. T. Villar

Drawing together techniques from combinatorics and computer science, we improve the census algorithm for enumerating closed minimal P^2-irreducible 3-manifold triangulations. In particular, new constraints are proven for face pairing…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-11-29 Benjamin A. Burton

The shape of crystalline nanoparticles (NP) can often be described by polyhedra with flat facet surfaces. Thus, structural studies of polyhedral bodies can help to describe geometric details of NPs. Here we consider compact polyhedra of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Klaus E. Hermann

We prove that Dirichlet stereohedra for non-cubic crystallographic groups in dimension 3 cannot have more than 80 facets. The bound depends on the particular crystallographic group considered and is above 50 only on 9 of the 97 affine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daciana Bochis , Francisco Santos

We demonstrate the construction of several families of flexible polyhedra by extending Bricard octahedra to form larger composite flexible polyhedra. These flexible polyhedra are of genus 0 and 1, have dihedral angles that are non-constant…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-11-24 Gerald D. Nelson

In this study, the properties of convex hexagons that can form rotationally symmetric edge-to-edge tilings are discussed. Because the convex hexagons are equilateral convex parallelohexagons, convex pentagons generated by bisecting the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Teruhisa Sugimoto

Spectrahedra are linear sections of the cone of positive semidefinite matrices that, as convex bodies, generalize the class of polyhedra. In this paper we investigate the problem of recognizing when a spectrahedron is polyhedral. We reprove…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Avinash Bhardwaj , Philipp Rostalski , Raman Sanyal

It remains unknown if every prismatoid has a nonoverlapping edge-unfolding, a special case of the long-unsolved "D\"urer's problem." Recently nested prismatoids have been settled [Rad24] by mixing (in some sense) the two natural unfoldings,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Joseph O'Rourke

Polyhedral surfaces are fundamental objects in architectural geometry and industrial design. Whereas closeness of a given mesh to a smooth reference surface and its suitability for numerical simulations were already studied extensively, the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Felix Günther , Caigui Jiang , Helmut Pottmann

In this note we show that unbounded convex polygons with nonparallel unbounded edges are polynomial images of ${\mathbb R}^2$, whereas their interiors are polynomial images of ${\mathbb R}^3$

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-01 Carlos Ueno

We classify the convex polytopes whose symmetry groups have two orbits on the flags. These exist only in two or three dimensions, and the only ones whose combinatorial automorphism group is also two-orbit are the cuboctahedron, the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Nicholas Matteo

In 1958, S. \'Swierczkowski proved that there cannot be a closed loop of congruent interior-disjoint regular tetrahedra that meet face-to-face. Such closed loops do exist for the other four regular polyhedra. It has been conjectured that,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Michael Elgersma , Stan Wagon

We study the combinatorial complexity of D-dimensional polyhedra defined as the intersection of n halfspaces, with the property that the highest dimension of any bounded face is much smaller than D. We show that, if d is the maximum…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-30 David Eppstein , Maarten Löffler

Recently, cutting planes derived from maximal lattice-free convex sets have been studied intensively by the integer programming community. An important question in this research area has been to decide whether the closures associated with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-10 Amitabh Basu , Robert Hildebrand , Matthias Köppe

We initiate the study of extremal problems about faces in convex rectilinear drawings of~$K_n$, that is, drawings where vertices are represented by points in the plane in convex position and edges by line segments between the points…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Martin Balko , Anna Brötzner , Fabian Klute , Josef Tkadlec

Given a set of radii measured from a fixed point, the existence of a convex configuration with respect to the set of distinct radii in the two-dimensional case is proved when radii are distinct or repeated at most four points. However, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Supanut Chaidee , Kokichi Sugihara

Any convex polytope whose combinatorial automorphism group has two orbits on the flags is isomorphic to one whose group of Euclidean symmetries has two orbits on the flags (equivalently, to one whose automorphism group and symmetry group…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Nicholas Matteo