Spaces of Geodesic Triangulations of Surfaces
Abstract
We give a short proof of the contractibility of the space of geodesic triangulations with fixed combinatorial type of a convex polygon in the Euclidean plane. Moreover, for any n>0, we show that there exists a space of geodesic triangulations of a polygon with a triangulation, whose n-th homotopy group is not trivial.
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