Triangulated Manifolds with Few Vertices: Geometric 3-Manifolds

Abstract

We explicitly construct small triangulations for a number of well-known 3-dimensional manifolds and give a brief outline of some aspects of the underlying theory of 3-manifolds and its historical development.

48 pages, 18 figures

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• Ricci flow with surgery on three-manifolds
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