Abstract Regular Polytopes
This book should be properly seen as the primary reference for the theory of abstract polytopes, especially of abstract regular polytopes. The book brings together and builds on work published by the authors and others in numerous papers over the previous 20 years, in which the theory of abstract regular polytopes was developed and advanced. An extensive bibliography helps tie the work to related work and work of historical interest, such as the theory of Coxeter groups, of buildings and geometries, and the classical theory of regular polytopes. The book is very comprehensive and deep in its coverage of the topic. Almost everything known about abstract regular polytopes until the date of publication may be found somewhere within its 551 pages. The trade-off for this is that the treatment is very ``dense. Although suitable for a specialist in the field, the sparseness of examples and the lack of exercises would make it hard for an undergraduate to appreciate the book. An instructor desiring to teach a course on abstract regular polytopes should certainly recommend students to obtain the book, but should also expect to have to supplement the book with his or her own examples, exercises, and (in some cases) simpler explanations. The book seems to have been written with the goal of becoming a one-stop reference for researchers in the field, rather than as an instructional resource. The structure of the book is as follows. Chapter 1 gives some historical background, and Chapter 2 outlines the basic concepts (definitions and so on) of abstract polytopes. Since Coxeter groups and their quotients are critical to the study of abstract polytopes, Chapter 3 gives, in some detail, a foundational knowledge of this subject. From Chapter 4 onwards, the reader is fully within the main subject matter of the book. This chapter explains the ``amalgamation problem, that is, the problem of finding polytopes \(P\) whose facets and vertex figures are of given types, and proves the important results in that area. Chapter 5 explains the concept of ``realizations, that is, embeddings of polytopes in Euclidian spaces. Basic and general results about realizations are given in this chapter. However, it is beyond the scope of the book to give a full account of the research that has been done in this area. The sixth chapter covers what is known about polytopes which have natural embeddings in manifolds. These polytopes are characterised by the fact that the facets and vertex figures must be spherical. Later chapters examine polytopes that do not have this property. The theoretical foundations for the study of such polytopes are laid in Chapters 7, 8 and 9. In Chapters 7 and 8, ``mixing and ``twisting operations are explained. Mixing and twisting are techniques that may be applied to derive new polytopes from others. Chapter 9 examines a class of groups that turn out to be useful to characterise the groups of the polytopes in the remaining chapters. Chapters 10, 11 and 12 examine polytopes that are ``locally toroidal, that is, either the facets or vertex figures are toruses. In four dimensions, the Schläfli symbol of such a polytope (or its dual) must be either \(\{4,4,3\}\), \(\{4,4,4\}\), \(\{6,3,p\}\) or \(\{3,6,3\}\). Covering the rank 4 case takes two chapters. Chapter 12 then explores what is known about higher rank locally toroidal polytopes. Chapters 13 and 14 describe, respectively, polytopes related to linear groups (the linearity of a polytope's group has important theoretical consequences), and polytopes with other local topologies (such as locally projective polytopes).
- Extensions of regular polytopes with preassigned Schläfli symbol
- Optimized algorithm to find all symmetry-distinct maps of a graph: Application to topology-driven molecular design
- Chirality and projective linear groups
- Manifold structures on abstract regular polytopes
- Chiral polytopes from hyperbolic honeycombs
- Flat regular polytopes
- Cluster algebras. II: Finite type classification
- Realizations of regular abstract polyhedra of types \(\{3,6\}\) and \(\{6,3\}\)
- Regular affine tilings and regular maps on a flat torus
- Regular polyhedra in the 3-torus
- Hypertopes with tetrahedral diagram
- On even-closed regular embeddings of graphs
- Hamiltonian cycles in polyhedral maps
- Skeletal geometric complexes and their symmetries
- Auction dynamics: a volume constrained MBO scheme
- Chiral 4-polytopes in ordinary space
- Zigzag structure of thin chamber complexes
- Open problems on \(k\)-orbit polytopes
- Fully truncated simplices and their monodromy groups
- Products of abstract polytopes
- Symmetric and asymmetric solutions of p-Laplace elliptic equations in hollow domains
- Tight chiral polyhedra
- Polytopality of maniplexes
- Mixing chiral polytopes
- Lattice triangulations of \(\mathbb{E}^3 \) and of the 3-torus
- Quotients of a universal locally projective polytope of type \(\{5,3,5\}\)
- On simplicial and cubical complexes with short links
- Polytopes related to the Picard group
- The mix of a regular polytope with a face
- Locally unitary groups and regular polytopes
- Symmetric graphs from polytopes of high rank
- Symmetries of equivelar 4-toroids
- Regular polytopes of nearly full rank: addendum
- Minimal covers of the Archimedean tilings. II.
- On the number of abstract regular polytopes whose automorphism group is a Suzuki simple group Sz(q)
- On the Schläfli symbol of chiral extensions of polytopes
- Orthogonal groups in characteristic 2 acting on polytopes of high rank
- Existence of regular 3-hypertopes with \(2^n\) chambers
- An existence result on two-orbit maniplexes
- Holomorphic path integrals in tangent space for flat manifolds
- Faithful permutation representations of toroidal regular maps
- A chiral 5-polytope of full rank
- A new algorithm to classify chiral polytopes with a given automorphism group
- Smallest polyhedral tilings of 3-tori by parallelohedra
- Chiral polytopes of full rank exist only in ranks \(4\) and \(5\)
- Quasi-regular polytopes of full rank
- Tight chiral polytopes
- Automorphism groups of 3-orbit polyhedra
- Two families of unravelled abstract regular polytopes in \(B_n\)
- Connectivity of triangulation flip graphs in the plane
- Proper locally spherical hypertopes of hyperbolic type
- Stratified operations on maniplexes
- A new approach to the automorphism group of a platonic surface
- A combinatorial-topological shape category for polygraphs
- On regular polytopes of 2-power order
- The assembly problem for alternating semiregular polytopes
- An exploration of locally spherical regular hypertopes
- Two infinite families of chiral polytopes of type {4,4,4} with solvable automorphism groups
- Equivelar toroids with few flag-orbits
- Chiral polyhedra in 3-dimensional geometries and from a Petrie-Coxeter construction
- Realizations of regular polytopes. IV
- C-groups of \(\mathrm{PSL}(2,q)\) and \(\mathrm{PGL}(2,q)\).
- On the flag graphs of regular abstract polytopes: Hamiltonicity and Cayley index
- A note on involution centralizers in black box groups
- Existence of regular 3-polytopes of order \(2^n\)
- Aesthetic patterns with symmetries of the regular polyhedron
- Regular and irregular chiral polyhedra from Coxeter diagrams via quaternions
- Stereographic visualization of 5-dimensional regular polytopes
- Bipartite graph embeddings, Riemann surfaces and Galois groups
- Symmetry type graphs of polytopes and maniplexes
- Finite reflection groups and graph norms
- Locally projective polytopes of type \(\{4,3,\dots,3,p\}\)
- Regular apeirotopes of dimension and rank 4
- On a canonical construction of tessellated surfaces from finite groups
- Non-flat regular polytopes and restrictions on chiral polytopes
- Projective linear groups as automorphism groups of chiral polytopes
- Regular compounds of honeycombs in \(\mathbb{H}^3\) and \(\mathbb{H}^4\)
- On the construction of highly symmetric tight frames and complex polytopes
- Reflection groups and polytopes over finite fields. II.
- CPR graphs and regular polytopes
- An atlas of small regular abstract polytopes
- Self-duality of chiral polytopes
- New strings for old Veneziano amplitudes. II: group-theoretic treatment
- A finite chiral 4-polytope in \(\mathbb R^4\)
- Equivelar maps on the torus
- Lattices compatible with regular polytopes
- A locally regular heptagon-dodecahedron embedded in 3-space
- Frobenius maps
- Two-orbit convex polytopes and tilings
- On the rank 5 polytopes of the Higman-Sims simple group
- Three infinite families of chiral 4-polytopes with symmetric automorphism groups
- Polyhedra, complexes, nets and symmetry
- Symmetry groups associated with tilings on a flat torus
- Combinatorially two-orbit convex polytopes
- Regular polygonal complexes in space. II
- Exploiting symmetries in polyhedral computations
- Classification of tight regular polyhedra
- Regular polygonal complexes in space, I
- Realising equivelar toroids of type \(\{4,4\}\)
- Chiral polyhedra arising from almost simple groups with socle \(PSL(2,q)\)
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