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Our purpose is to elaborate a theory of planar nets or unfoldings for polyhedra, its generalization and extension to polytopes and to combinatorial polytopes, in terms of morphisms of geometries and the adjacency graph of facets.
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Bouzette, S., Buekenhout, F., Dony, E. et al. A Theory of Nets for Polyhedra and Polytopes Related to Incidence Geometries. Designs, Codes and Cryptography 10, 115–136 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008284101986
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