Manifold crystallization

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Publication Date:
1998
Short description:
Manifold crystallization / Cavicchioli, A. - In: Encyclopaedia of Mathematics / ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MATHEMATICS M. HAZEWINKEL; EDITOR IN CHIEF; R. HOKSBERGEN; COORDINATING EDITOR. - STAMPA. - DORDRECHT : M. Hazewinkel (ed.), 1998. - pp. 333-334
abstract:
We present the main results and basic definitions on the combinatorial representation of closed connected triangulated n-manifolds by means of special classes of edge-colored graphs, called crystallizations.
Iris type:
Capitolo/Saggio
Keywords:
manifold; colored graph; crystallization; polyhedron; simplicial complex; contracted triangulation; orientability; connected sum; characterizations; homotopy; homology; numerical invariants; geometric structure
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https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/461416
Book title:
Encyclopaedia of Mathematics