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Journal of Topology 2009 2(1):157-180; doi:10.1112/jtopol/jtp004
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© 2009 London Mathematical Society

Minimal triangulations for an infinite family of lens spaces

William Jaco

Department of Mathematics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078-1058, USA, jaco@math.okstate.edu

Hyam Rubinstein and Stephan Tillmann

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia, rubin@ms.unimelb.edu.au, tillmann@ms.unimelb.edu.au

The notion of a layered triangulation of a lens space was defined by Jaco and Rubinstein, and unless the lens space is L(3,1), a layered triangulation with the minimal number of tetrahedra was shown to be unique and termed its minimal layered triangulation. This paper proves that for each n >= 2, the minimal layered triangulation of the lens space L(2n, 1) is its unique minimal triangulation. More generally, the minimal triangulations (and hence the complexity) are determined for an infinite family of lens spaces containing the lens space of the form L(2n, 1).

Received May 16, 2008.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 57M25, 57N10



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