A Construction Principle for Tight and Minimal Triangulations of Manifolds

@article{Burton2018ACP,
  title={A Construction Principle for Tight and Minimal Triangulations of Manifolds},
  author={Benjamin A. Burton and Basudeb Datta and Nitin Singh and Jonathan Spreer},
  journal={Experimental Mathematics},
  year={2018},
  volume={27},
  pages={22 - 36}
}
ABSTRACT Tight triangulations are exotic, but highly regular objects in combinatorial topology. A triangulation is tight if all its piecewise linear embeddings into a Euclidean space are as convex as allowed by the topology of the underlying manifold. Tight triangulations are conjectured to be strongly minimal and proven to be so for dimensions ⩽ 3. However, in spite of substantial theoretical results about such triangulations, there are precious few examples. In fact, apart from dimension two… 
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