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Naming convention for different type of triangulations

When studying random geometries and related mathematical/physical stuff conflicting naming convention pops up regarding the naming of the different ensemble types of triangulations (in general ...
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Bordism for oriented triangulable manifolds without smooth differentiable structures

We know the bordism group for oriented smooth differentiable structures such as $\Omega_d^{SO}$ that requires the special orthogonal group structure on the tangent bundle $TM$ of manifold $M$. $$\...
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Surfaces generated by minimum-weight triangulations

The minimum-weight triangulation of simple polygons can be efficiently calculated in $O(n^3)$ time by dynamic programming, while it is $\text{NP-hard}$ for pointsets in general. Looking at the ...
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Triangulation with simplices of same volume

Let $M$ be a Riemannian smooth compact manifold. It is known that $M$ has a triangulation, for any dimension. But do we know if there exists a triangulation such that all simplices have same volume ? ...
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A totally geodesic triangulation

Let $M$ be a compact orientable $n$ dimensional Riemannian manifold. Is there a triangulation of $M$ such that every $k$ dimensional face of each simplex is a totally geodesic submanifold, $\forall k ...
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Can any smooth triangulation of a smooth manifold be blurred?

For the purposes of this question, let's say that a blurring of a smooth triangulation $T$ of a smooth manifold $X$ is a smooth homotopy $h\colon [0,1] \times X \to X$ such that $h_0=\operatorname{id}...
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Proving the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for embedded surfaces using triangulations

I heard this really neat elementary proof of the "Gauss-Bonnet Theorem" : Let $S$ be a surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Now take a triangulation of that surface, and approximate the surface with a ...
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