Irreducible Triangulations are Small
Abstract
A triangulation of a surface is irreducible if there is no edge whose contraction produces another triangulation of the surface. We prove that every irreducible triangulation of a surface with Euler genus g≥1 has at most 13g-4 vertices. The best previous bound was 171g-72.
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