Flip graphs of triangulations on polygons
Given a set of points on the plane, one can consider the set of triangulations using these points as vertices. Two triangulations are related by a flip if they differ by an edge. Flips are important in both mathematics and computer science, such as optimizing triangulations, computing geodesics and studying the mapping class groups on surfaces. An interesting but difficult question is computing the flip distance between two triangulations of a given set of points. Our work focuses on the specific case when the points are the vertices of a planar polygon. In this context, it is well known that computing flip distances is closely related to decomposing some three-dimensional polyhedron into tetrahedra. In this talk, we will explain this relationship, and present our results following this perspective. This talk is based on joint work with Lionel Pournin and Peter Doyle.
Le comité d'organisation est constitué de Alfredo Hubard, Arnaud de Mesmay et Lionel Pournin.