Unfoldings of doubly covered polyhedra and applications to space-fillers (Q663096)

The authors study unfoldings of doubly covered polyhedra. A doubly covered polyhedron consists of a pair of identical polyhedra in 3-space with pairs of corresponding faces identified. An unfolding is a solid admitting a suitable continuous map onto the underlying doubly covered polyhedron. The paper describes geometric properties of convex unfoldings (with a convex solid) of doubly covered cuboids (rectangular boxes). Unfoldings of doubly covered cuboids always are space-fillers of 3-space; and conversely, all suitable space-fillers are unfoldings of doubly covered cuboids. For example, the five parallelohedra in 3-space arise in this way. The authors also establish similar results for unfoldings of doubly covered fundamental regions of certain reflection groups in 3-space.