Tight chiral polytopes

DOI10.1007/S10801-021-01023-ZMaRDI QIDQ2052830zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gabe Cunningham, Daniel Pellicer

Publication date 29 November 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04566

zbMATH Keywords

abstract polytopeschiral polytopestight polytopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

Abstract: A chiral polytope with Schl"{a}fli symbol $p_1,ldots,p_{n-1}$ has at least $2p_{1}cdots{p}_{n-1}$ flags, and it is called emph{tight} if the number of flags meets this lower bound. The Schl"{a}fli symbols of tight chiral polyhedra were classified in an earlier paper, and another paper proved that there are no tight chiral $n$-polytopes with $ngeq6$. Here we prove that there are no tight chiral $5$-polytopes, describe 11 families of tight chiral $4$-polytopes, and show that every tight chiral $4$-polytope covers a polytope from one of those families.

Review text

A chiral polytope with Schläfli symbol \(\{p_1,\, \dots,\, p_{n-1}\}\) is tight whenever it has exactly \(2p_1\cdots p_{n- 1}\) flags. In papers [Electron. J. Comb. 24, No. 3, Research Paper P3.59, 14 p. (2017; Zbl 1372.52013); Combinatorica 38, No. 1, 115--142 (2018; Zbl 1413.52016)], the first author proved the non-existence of tight chiral \(n\)-polytopes for \(n\ge 6\), determined Schläfli symbols of tight chiral polyhedra, and classified the so-called atomic chiral polyhedra which could be covered by each tight chiral polyhedron. The present paper proves the non-existence of tight chiral 5-polytopes, defines atomic chiral polytopes which generalize atomic chiral polyhedra, and gives all atomic chiral 4-polytopes. In the same way, as every tight chiral polytope covers an atomic chiral polytope, all tight chiral 4-polytopes are classified to a great extent. By a series of these papers, the classification of tight chiral polytopes for all ranks is roughly done, and it may provide a clue for classifying abstract polytopes with other specific properties.

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