English

Fat Shellable Spheres

Combinatorics 2025-09-26 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

The fatness of a 4-polytope or 3-sphere is defined as (f1+f220)/(f0+f310)(f_1+f_2-20)/(f_0+f_3-10). We construct arbitrarily fat, strongly regular CW 3-spheres that are both shellable and dual shellable. These spheres have ff-vectors (Θ(n),Θ(nα(n)),Θ(nα(n)),Θ(n))(\Theta(n),\Theta(n\alpha(n)),\Theta(n\alpha(n)),\Theta(n)), where α\alpha is the inverse Ackermann function.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2509.20771,
  title  = {Fat Shellable Spheres},
  author = {Joshua Hinman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.20771},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

30 pages, 6 figures

R2 v1 2026-07-01T05:55:23.214Z