scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1359495

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Authors Heinz-Juergen Voss

Publication date 9 November 1999

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/31895

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regular map Sachs triangulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25)

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In 1963, H. Sachs developed the concept of describing finite groups by triangulations of closed oriented surfaces. These triangulations are useful in constructing regular maps: generalizations of Platonic solids that have the largest possible automorphism groups. Nedela and Škoviera introduced the concept of a dessin d'enfant, a very elementary map used to construct maps with a large number of symmetries. In this paper the author uses the notion of dessin d'enfant to construct new highly symmetric maps. He constructs reflexible regular maps on closed oriented surfaces where the face size is at least \(q=3\) and the vertex degree is at least \(p \geq 3q\). When \(q=3\) and \(p\) is odd, these are also Sachs triangulations. In particular, he gives a reflexible regular Sachs triangulation for each odd valence \(p\), and a reflexible regular triangulation for each even valence \(p \geq 4\).

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