# Triangulation of 3-manifolds
## Refs
- with totally geodesic boundary
- [[1990#Kojima]]: canonical triangulation
- [[1990#Fujii]]: classification for manifolds with 2 or fewer tetrahedra
- [[2002#Frigerio, Martelli, Petronio]]: classification for manifolds with 4 or fewer tetrahedra
- complexity
- [[1990#Matveev]]: defines complexity, lists all closed orientable manifolds with complex 6 or less
- review
- [[2025#Hartman (Jul, b)]]
## Complexity
Complexity equals the minimal number of tetrahedra in an ideal triangulation, when $M$ is boundary-irreducible and acylindrical, but not necessarily atoroidal.