Felix L. 2023 | BASIS Independent Silicon Valley
- Project Title: Investigating Three-Colerability of Triangulations of Manifolds
- BASIS Independent Advisor: Claudia Holloway
- Internship Location: Ohio State University
- Onsite Mentor: Dr. Fowler
In topology, being able to decompose manifolds into simplicial complexes is of great importance to better study their properties. As such, it is vital that techniques be developed to compute topological invariants between different manifolds. This project will attempt to examine a property known as Grunbaum coloring, and determine when one can find such a coloring given a triangulation of a manifold. It is known when Grunbaum coloring exist for the torus, sphere, and projective plane, but more work can be done on 3-manifolds or surfaces of genus 4 and greater. The results from this research may have implications in graph theory or computations involving triangulations, as homeomorphisms are more easily computable.
My Posts
Progress On Coding And Other Approaches
April 1, 2023
Coding Progress Last time I left off writing some code that would determine whether or not a graph has a polyhedral embedding. Currently, I have successfully tested the code for the Petersen snark, so the next step would be testing other graphs. There are many databases online, that I will try to work with in […]
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Sage And Superposition
March 25, 2023
Welcome back to my blog! Progress On Coding Last time, I began investigating an algorithm by Brinkmann that would determine when a graph had a polyhedral embedding. Unfortunately, I could not find an implementation of the algorithm. I also had trouble getting the proper packages installed (in particular nauty) since I use Windows, while the […]
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Week 2: Some Coding Has Appeared?!
March 17, 2023
Welcome back to my blog! In the past week, I realized just how much terminology I was lacking for graph theory (serves me right for studying topology instead I guess). Be it rotation systems of a vertex or facial walks – which I’ll spare you the details of – learning the nuances and equivalent definitions […]
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Introducing Grünbaum’s Conjecture
March 10, 2023
Hi! I would like to start by giving thanks to Dr. Fowler (external advisor) and Ms. Holloway (internal advisor) for agreeing to advise me on this project. This is the first in a series of blogs in which I try to tackle Grünbaum’s Conjecture. In mathematics, graph colorings are studied for their wide range of […]
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