Contractions of polygons in abstract polytopes

There are several well-known constructions of new polytopes from old, such as the pyramid and prism constructions. This thesis defines two new local constructions on abstract polytopes. The first construction, called digonal contraction, allows digonal sections to be removed by merging their two edg...

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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20194153