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GEOMETRICAL SPINES OF LENS MANIFOLDS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2007

S. ANISOV
S. ANISOV
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.010, 3508 TA Utrecht, The [email protected]
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Abstract

We introduce the concept of ‘geometrical spine’ for 3-manifolds with natural metrics, in particular, for lens manifolds. We show that any spine of $L_{p,q}$ that is close enough to its geometrical spine contains at least $E(p,q)-3$ vertices, which is exactly the conjectured value for the complexity $c(L_{p,q})$. As a byproduct, we find the minimal rotation distance (in the Sleator–Tarjan–Thurston sense) between a triangulation of a regular $p$-gon and its image under rotation.

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57M50 (primary)57M2057M60 (secondary)
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Notes and Papers
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Journal of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 74 , Issue 3 , December 2006 , pp. 799 - 816
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The London Mathematical Society 2006

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