Uniform partitions of 3-space, their relatives and embedding

DOI10.1006/EUJC.1999.0385MaRDI QIDQ1582487zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mikhail Shtogrin, Michel Deza

Publication date 28 August 2001

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9906034

zbMATH Keywords

partitions of \(3\)-spaceregular polytopesuniform polytopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22)

Abstract: We review 28 uniform partitions of 3-space in order to find out which of them have graphs (skeletons) embeddable isometrically (or with scale 2) into some cubic lattice $$. We also consider some relatives of those 28 partitions, including Achimedean 4-polytopes of Conway-Guy, non-compact uniform partitions, Kelvin partitions and those with unique vertex figure (i.e. Delaunay star). Among last ones we indicate two continuums of aperiodic tilings by semi-regular 3-prisms with cubes or with regular tetrahedra and regular octahedra. On the way many new partitions are added to incomplete cases considered here.

Review text

A convex \(3\)-polytope is called uniform if its facets are regular polygons and its group of (affine) automorphisms acts transitively on the set of vertices. A uniform partition of the Euclidean \(3\)-space is a (necessarily infinite) polytopal decomposition into uniform polytopes with a vertex transitive automorphism group. \textit{B. Grünbaum} [Geombinatorics 4, No. 2, 49-56 (1994; Zbl 0844.52022)] classified the 28~types. The paper under review contains tables on the combinatorics of these and related partitions. The main focus is on the embeddability of the graphs of the partitions.

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