Low minor faces in 3-polytopes

It is trivial that every 3-polytope has a face of degree at most 5, called minor. The height $h\left(f\right)$ of a face $f$ is the maximum degree of the vertices incident with $f$. It follows from the partial double $n$-pyramids that $h\left(f\right)$ can be arbitrarily large for each $f$ if a 3-polytope is allowed to have faces of types $(4,4,\infty )$ or $(3,3,3,\infty )$.In 1996, M. Horňák and S. Jendrol’ proved that every 3-polytope without faces of types $(4,4,\infty )$ and$(3,3,3,\infty )$ has a minor face of height at most 39 and constructed such a 3-polytope satisfying $h\left(f\right)\ge 30$ for all minor faces $f$.The purpose of this paper is to prove that every 3-polytope without faces of types $(4,4,\infty )$ and$(3,3,3,\infty )$ has a minor face of height at most 30, which bound is tight due to the Horňák–Jendrol’ construction.