Weakly Regular Subdivisions

Discrete & Computational Geometry - Tập 47 - Trang 106-116 - 2011
Lionel Pournin1,2
1Mathematics Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2EFREI, Villejuif, France

Tóm tắt

It is shown that 2-dimensional subdivisions can be made regular by moving their vertices within parallel 1-dimensional spaces. As a consequence, any 2-dimensional subdivision is projected from the boundary complex of a 4-polytope.

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