A class of doubly regular polyhedral surfaces

DOI10.1016/0022-4049(86)90006-XMaRDI QIDQ1080179zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. R. Isbell

Publication date 1986

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-4049(86)90006-x

zbMATH Keywords

polyhedral manifoldsprincipal doubly regular 2- complexregular mapsregular polyhedra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Polytopes and polyhedra (52Bxx)

Review text

The author starts from the well-known fact that 4 of the 5 Platonic solids (except the tetrahedron) doubly cover polyhedra which are isomorphic to regular maps on the real projective plane. He then defines: A principal doubly regular (PDR) 2-complex is a 2-complex whose faces are abstractly convex polygons, whose geometric realization is a closed 2- manifold, whose automorphisms are doubly transitive on faces, and no two of whose faces have two common edges. The author gives the complete list of the orientable and non-orientable PDR 2-complexes: In both cases it is a sparse infinite sequence, plus the tetrahedron in the orientable case and two pentagon-hexahedra in the non- orientable case.

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