Large chirotopes with computable numbers of triangulations
Abstract
Chirotopes are a common combinatorial abstraction of (planar) point sets. In this paper we investigate decomposition methods for chirotopes, and their application to the problem of counting the number of triangulations supported by a given planar point set. In particular, we generalize the convex and concave sums operations defined by Rutschmann and Wettstein for a particular family of chirotopes (which they call chains), and obtain a precise asymptotic estimate for the number of triangulations of the double circle, using a functional equation and the kernel method.
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