N‐flips in even triangulations on the sphere

A triangulation is said to be even if each vertex has even degree. For even triangulations, define the N‐flip and the P2‐flip as two deformations preserving the number of vertices. We shall prove that any two even triangulations on the sphere with the same number of vertices can be transformed into each other by a sequence of N‐ and P2‐flips. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Graph Theory