Equivelar toroids with few flag-orbits (Q2227235): Difference between revisions

Toroids are generalisations of maps on the torus to higher dimensions. To be more specific, an \((n+1)\)-toroid is a quotient of a tessellation of the \(n\)-dimensional Euclidean space with a lattice group. The classification of regular and chiral toroids of any rank was completed by \textit{P. McMullen} and \textit{E. Schulte} [Adv. Math. 117, No. 1, 17--51 (1996; Zbl 0847.52010)]. In particular, they showed that there exist no chiral toroids of rank greater than 3. Furthermore, \textit{M. I. Hartley} et al. [Can. J. Math. 51, No. 6, 1230--1239 (1999; Zbl 0965.51008)] showed for \(n\ge 2\), the only Euclidean space form that admits chiral tessellations is the \(n\)-torus and proved this is only possible when \(n = 2\). In [Discrete Comput. Geom. 48, No. 4, 1110--1136 (2012; Zbl 1263.51016)], \textit{I. Hubard} et al. studied properties of the automorphism groups of equivelar toroids and classified all equivelar toroids of ranks 3 and 4 into families according to their symmetry types. The present nice paper gives a classification of equivelar \((n+1)\)-toroids with at most \(n\) orbits. In particular, a classification of 2-orbit \((n+1)\)-toroids is discussed. Symmetry types of families of equivelar \((n+1)\)-toroids with at most \(n\) orbits are also determined.