Counting Lattice Triangulations

dc.creatorKaibel, Volker
dc.creatorZiegler, Günter M.
dc.date2002-11-18
dc.date2002-12-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:53:02Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:53:02Z
dc.descriptionWe discuss the problem to count, or, more modestly, to estimate the number f(m,n) of unimodular triangulations of the planar grid of size $m\times n$. Among other tools, we employ recursions that allow one to compute the (huge) number of triangulations for small m and rather large n by dynamic programming; we show that this computation can be done in polynomial time if m is fixed, and present computational results from our implementation of this approach. We also present new upper and lower bounds for large m and n, and we report about results obtained from a computer simulation of the random walk that is generated by flips.
dc.description30 pages, to appear in: ``British Combinatorial Surveys'' (C. D. Wensley, ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2003. This is an updated version containing minor changes suggested by the referee
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211268
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211268
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/65691
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subjectMetric Geometry
dc.subject05AXX; 52B20
dc.titleCounting Lattice Triangulations
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