Algebraic enumeration of polypolyhedra

DOI10.46787/PUMP.V7I0.3936MaRDI QIDQ6651115zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors George Henderson-Walshe, Michael K. Langton, Jeanette C. McLeod, Phil L. Wilson

Publication date 10 December 2024

Published in PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.46787/PUMP.V7I0.3936

zbMATH Keywords

Coxeter groupsenumerative geometrypolypolyhedra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15)

Review text

This fine piece of undergraduate research studies \textit{polypolyhedra}, certain collections of line segments in \(\mathbb R^3\) enjoying very strong symmetry properties. This is motivated by the works of the origami artist Robert J.\ Lang, who attempted to define and classify polypolyhedra to study origami in a more rigorous fashion. The students at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) revisit his studies, suggesting a precise mathematical definition of polypolyhedra and providing a provably correct classification of them. Due to the symmetry properties mentioned above, the authors quickly reduce the geometric question to one on finite reflection groups, that is, finite Coxeter groups. The enumeration problem is then turned into an analysis of conjugacy classes and applications of Burnside's lemmas.

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