The assembly problem for alternating semiregular polytopes

DOI10.1007/S00454-019-00118-6MaRDI QIDQ2197694zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. Monson, Egon Schulte

Publication date 1 September 2020

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-019-00118-6

zbMATH Keywords

abstract semiregular polytopestail-triangle C-groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of tessellation and tiling problems (05B45) Graph theory (05C99) Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

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This paper deals with several problems raised by abstract semiregular polytopes. One of the main problems is the assembly problem: Suppose \(\mathcal{P}\) and \(\mathcal{Q}\) are regular \(n\)-polytopes with isomorphic facets \(\mathcal{K}\); and fix \(k\geq 2\). Does there exist an alternating semiregular \((n+1)\)-polytope \(\mathcal{S}\) with facets \(\mathcal{P}\) and \(\mathcal{Q}\), and interlacing number \(k\)? The answer can be negative or positive, and several such answers are determined for specific \(\mathcal{P}\), \(\mathcal{Q}\), \(\mathcal{K}\) and \(k\). Here is an example of a negative answer: Let \(\mathcal{P}\) be the hemi-\(3\)-cube \({4, 3}_3\) , and let \(\mathcal{Q}\) be a 3-toroid \({4, 4}_{(s,0)}\) with \(s\geq 2\). For odd \(s\), there is no alternating semiregular \(4\)-polytope with facets \({\mathcal P}\) and \({\mathcal Q}\) and interlacing number \(k=2\).

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