Balanced triangulations

Lijie Jia, Liping Yuan, Carol T. Zamfirescu, Tudor I. Zamfirescu

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Abstract

Motivated by applications in numerical analysis, we investigate balanced triangulations, i.e. triangulations where all angles are strictly larger than pi/6 and strictly smaller than pi/2, giving the optimal lower bound for the number of triangles in the case of the square. We also investigate platonic surfaces, where we find for each one its respective optimal bound. In particular, we settle (affirmatively) the open question whether there exist acute triangulations of the regular dodecahedral surface with 12 acute triangles [J. Itoh, T. Zamfirescu, Acute triangulations of the regular dodecahedral surface, European J. Combin. 28 (2007) 1072-1086]. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2178-2191
Number of pages14
JournalDiscrete Mathematics
Volume313
Issue number20
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Oct 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Acute triangulations
  • Balanced triangulations
  • Platonic solids

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