Acute triangulations of the regular dodecahedral surface
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Acute triangulations of the regular dodecahedral surface
zbMATH Open document ID: 1115.52004
author: Jin-Ichi Itoh
author: Tudor Zamfirescu
published in: European Journal of Combinatorics
publication date: 2007-04-10T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors study acute (non-obtuse) geodesic triangulations of two-dimensional spaces, i.e. triangulations by geodesic triangles whose angles are smaller (not larger) than \(\pi/2\). The question is to find an acute (non-obtuse) triangulation of a given space \(M^2\) with as few triangles as possible. The problem was solved for the surfaces of four Platonic solids -- tetrahedron, cube, octahedron and icosahedron [see the authors, Discrete Comput. Geom. 31, No. 2, 197--206 (2004; Zbl 1062.51014), \textit{J.-I. Itoh}, Josai Math. Monogr. 3, 53--62 (2001; Zbl 0998.52015), \textit{T. Hangan, J.-I. Itoh} and \textit{T. Zamfirescu}, Bull. Math. Soc. Sci. Math. Roum., Nouv. Sér. 43(91), No. 3--4, 279--285 (2000; Zbl 1048.51501)]. Actually the authors propose a solution for the dodecahedron: the main statement is that there exists a non-obtuse geodesic triangulation of the dodecahedron with only 10 triangles, and that this is the best possible. Besides, it is demonstrated that there exist an acute geodesic triangulation of the dodecahedron with only 14 triangles, however it is still unclear whether an acute geodesic triangulation with less that 14 triangles does exist. Another more general open problem is the following: does a number \(N\) exist such that every compact convex surface in \(R^3\) admits an acute triangulation with at most \(N\) triangles.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52B05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52B10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 52C20
zbMATH DE Number: 5141659
zbMATH Keywords: dodecahedron
zbMATH Keywords: geodesic triangulation
zbMATH Keywords: acute geodesic triangulation
zbMATH Keywords: non-obtuse geodesic
reviewed by: Vasyl Gorkaviy
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.ejc.2006.04.008
OpenAlex ID: W1991117377
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DOI: 10.1016/J.EJC.2006.04.008
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5141659