Ziegler's 3-ball

Description
Ziegler's 1998 paper showed a very small non-shellable 3-ball which is even smaller thatn Gru"nbaum's ball. This amazing example has only 10 vertices and 21 facets. (Believed to be the smallest.)
Properties
This is known to be constructible.
Datum
ziegler.dat
Some table
vertex decomposable?no
extendably shellable?no
shellable?no
constructible?yes
Cohen-Macaulay?yes
partitionable?yes
topology3-ball
f-vector(1,10,38,50,21)
h-vector(1,6,14,0,0)
made byZiegler
References
G.M.Ziegler, Shelling polyhedral 3-balls and 4-polytopes, Discrete Comput. Geom. 19 (1998), 159-174.

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