Chiral polyhedra and finite simple groups

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12041MaRDI QIDQ5357094zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dimitri Leemans, Martin W. Liebeck

Publication date 13 September 2017

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07713

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupchiral polyhedronfinite simple groupranked poset

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite simple groups and their classification (20D05) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

Abstract: We prove that every finite non-abelian simple group acts as the automorphism group of a chiral polyhedron, apart from the groups $PS{L}_2(q)$, $PS{L}_3(q)$, $PS{U}_3(q)$ and $A_7$.

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