Geometric bistellar flips: The setting, the context and a construction

International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2006

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 931-962

  Santos, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bistellar flip; Disconnected flip graph; Point configuration; Polyhedral subdivision; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY; BISTELLAR FLIPS; DISCONNECTED FLIP-GRAPH; NEW RESULTS; POINT CONFIGURATIONS; POLYHEDRAL SUBDIVISION; POLYTOPES; TOPOLOGICAL COMBINATORICS;

TOPOLOGY; TRIANGULATION;

GEOMETRY;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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