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Two questions. 1. Do the unit length edges you add have to be horizontal or vertical? 2. How is the first edge added for a given seed? Should the seed be one of its endpoints or should it just lie on it somewhere?
I am talking about the generalization of the Czaszar polyhedron. It's a polyhedron whose skeleton is $K_7$. For n = 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, there cannot be a polyhedron whose skeleton is $K_n$, which can be shown using the Euler characteristic. So the next candidate is $K_12$, and that's still open. I had assumed that 3-polytopes are the same as polyhedra. But it seems they are the same as "convex" polyhedra?
I have heard that it's still not known if the complete graph on 12 vertices can be realized as the 1-skeleton of a 3-polytope. But according to what you have said, it should have been decidable. So can't we just use Tarski's algorithm once on $K_12$ and check? Or is the input size really really big for this case?
I wonder what he meant by "similar theorem". Did he mean that a theorem characterizing the 1-skeleton of convex polytopes is not known or that a theorem characterizing the 1-skeleton of general polytopes is not known?