Regular incidence complexes, polytopes, and C-groups

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-78434-2_18MaRDI QIDQ1740487zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Egon Schulte

Publication date 30 April 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02297

zbMATH Keywords

abstract polytopeC-groupincidence geometriesregular polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

Abstract: Regular incidence complexes are combinatorial incidence structures generalizing regular convex polytopes, regular complex polytopes, various types of incidence geometries, and many other highly symmetric objects. The special case of abstract regular polytopes has been well-studied. The paper describes the combinatorial structure of a regular incidence complex in terms of a system of distinguished generating subgroups of its automorphism group or a flag-transitive subgroup. Then the groups admitting a flag-transitive action on an incidence complex are characterized as generalized string C-groups. Further, extensions of regular incidence complexes are studied, and certain incidence complexes particularly close to abstract polytopes, called abstract polytope complexes, are investigated.

Review text

The paper gathers results on regular incidence complexes, `generalizing regular convex polytopes, regular complex polytopes, various types of incidence geometries, and many other highly symmetric objects', in terms of the arising automorphism groups. A regular incidence complex is a ranked poset with a connectivity condition and a local property relaxing the diamond property of abstract polytopes. Their structure is intimately related with their automorphism group. The paper mainly follows earlier results by the author, in particular his thesis [Reguläre Inzidenzkomplexe. Dortmund: University of Dortmund (PhD Thesis) (1980)]. Several insights on distinguished generating subgroups are collected. This leads to a construction of regular complexes from generalized string C-groups. Furthermore, existence criteria for an extension of a regular complex are given. The last section leaves several open problems related to polytope complexes. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1400.52002].

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