Semiregular polytopes and amalgamated C-groups

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2011.12.027MaRDI QIDQ409624zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Egon Schulte, B. Monson

Publication date 13 April 2012

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1337

zbMATH Keywords

reflection groupsabstract polytopegroup amalgamationmodular reductionsemiregular polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

Abstract: In the classical setting, a convex polytope is said to be semiregular if its facets are regular and its symmetry group is transitive on vertices. This paper studies semiregular abstract polytopes, which have abstract regular facets, still with combinatorial automorphism group transitive on vertices. We analyze the structure of the automorphism group, focusing in particular on polytopes with two kinds of regular facets occurring in an "alternating" fashion. In particular we use group amalgamations to prove that given two compatible n-polytopes P and Q, there exists a universal abstract semiregular (n+1)-polytope which is obtained by "freely" assembling alternate copies of P and Q. We also employ modular reduction techniques to construct finite semiregular polytopes from reflection groups over finite fields.

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