Chiral polyhedra in ordinary space. II

DOI10.1007/S00454-005-1176-0MaRDI QIDQ2571328zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Egon Schulte

Publication date 1 November 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501050

zbMATH Keywords

chiraleuclidean spacegeometrically chiralhelical facepolytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

Abstract: A chiral polyhedron has a geometric symmetry group with two orbits on the flags, such that adjacent flags are in distinct orbits. Part I of the paper described the discrete chiral polyhedra in ordinary Euclidean 3-space with finite skew faces and finite skew vertex-figures; they occur in infinite families and are of types {4,6}, {6,4} and {6,6}. Part II completes the enumeration of all discrete chiral polyhedra in 3-space. There exist several families of chiral polyhedra with infinite, helical faces. In particular, there are no discrete chiral polyhedra with finite faces in addition to those described in Part I.

Review text

This paper is part 2 of a two-part paper. Together with part 1 [Discrete Comput. Geom. 32, No. 1, 55--99 (2004; Zbl 1059.52020)], it completely classifies the geometrically chiral polytopes in three-dimensional euclidean space. Part 1 of the paper enumerates those with finite faces and finite vertex-figures. In part 2 (this article), it is first shown that the requirement that there are no chiral polytopes with finite faces and infinite vertex figures. Second, the article proves that a discrete chiral polytope with infinite faces must be of type \(\{\infty,3\}\) or \(\{\infty,4\}\), the faces being helices whose base is either a square or a hexagon. This leads to a small number of cases to be individually examined. Each case is analysed, and the polytopes that arise are enumerated. Finally, the article explores the covering relationships between the polyhedra discovered.

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