Abstract
A triangulation of a 2-manifoldM is said to be minimal provided one cannot produce a triangulation ofM with fewer vertices by shrinking an edge. In this paper we prove that all 2-manifolds have finitely many minimal triangulations. It follows that all triangulations of a given 2-manifold can be generated from the minimal triangulations by a process called vertex splitting.
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