Speaker:  Ivan Izmestiev, Freie Universität Berlin
Title: Geometric Pachner moves, rigidity of non-convex polyhedra, and polytopality of simplicial spheres
Time: 2:30 PM, Monday, February 2, 2015
Place:  Malott 206

Abstract: Morelli and Wlodarczyk solved independently in 1996/97 the "weak Oda conjecture" for toric varieties. Stated geometrically, it says that any two triangulations of a convex polytope are related by geometric bistellar moves. In this talk I will give a version of a proof of the Morelli-Wlodarczyk theorem and discuss two applications. The first application is the rigidity of a certain class of non-convex polyhedra (joint work with Jean-Marc Schlenker). The second is is a proof of Billera's conjecture: any simplicial PL sphere becomes polytopal after several derived subdivisions (joint work with Karim Adiprasito).


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