Title
Embedding a Pair of Graphs in a Surface, and the Width of 4-dimensional Prismatoids
Abstract
A prismatoid is a polytope with all its vertices contained in two parallel facets, called its bases. Its width is the number of steps needed to go from one base to the other in the dual graph. The first author recently showed that the existence of counter-examples to the Hirsch conjecture is equivalent to that of d-prismatoids of width larger than d, and constructed such prismatoids in dimension five. Here we show that the same is impossible in dimension four. This is proved by looking at the pair of graph embeddings on a 2-sphere that arise from the normal fans of the two bases of Q.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/s00454-011-9361-9
Discrete and Computational Geometry
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Polytope,Polytope diameter,Hirsch conjecture,Graph embedding,Prismatoid
Journal
47
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
Discrete Comput. Geom. 47:3 (2012), 569-576
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francisco Santos118418.73
Tamon Stephen212116.03
Hugh Thomas3132.74