Atsuhiro Nakamoto , Gen Kawatani, Naoki Matsumoto, Jorge Urrutia
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Abstract
We deal with a geometric quadrangulation of a polygon P. We define a new notion called “the spirality” of P, which measures how close P is from being a convex polygon. Using the spirality, we describe (1) a condition of P to admit a geometric quadrangulation, and (2) a condition of P guaranteeing that any two geometric quadrangulations on P can be related by a sequence of edge flips.
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