Diophantine equations, platonic solids, McKay correspondence, equivelar maps and Vogel's universality

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2016.11.021zbMATH Open1380.11023arXiv1604.06062OpenAlexW2339785428MaRDI QIDQ512083FDOQ512083

Authors: Ruben Mkrtchyan, Hovhannes M. Khudaverdian 

Publication date: 23 February 2017

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We notice that one of the Diophantine equations, $knm=2kn+2km+2nm$, arising in the universality originated Diophantine classification of simple Lie algebras, has interesting interpretations for two different sets of signs of variables. In both cases it describes "regular polyhedrons" with $k$ edges in each vertex, $n$ edges of each face, with total number of edges $|m|$, and Euler characteristics $chi=pm2$. In the case of negative $m$ this equation corresponds to $chi=2$ and describes true regular polyhedrons, Platonic solids. The case with positive $m$ corresponds to Euler characteristic $chi=-2$ and describes the so called equivelar maps (charts) on the surface of genus $2$. In the former case there are two routes from Platonic solids to simple Lie algebras - abovementioned Diophantine classification and McKay correspondence. We compare them for all solutions of this type, and find coincidence in the case of icosahedron (dodecahedron), corresponding to $E_8$ algebra. In the case of positive $k$, $n$ and $m$ we obtain in this way the interpretation of (some of) the mysterious solutions (Y-objects), appearing in the Diophantine classification and having some similarities with simple Lie algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06062

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zbMATH Keywords

McKay correspondenceDiophantine equationsregular mapssimple Lie algebrasVogel's universality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) [https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?search=%2211G30%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns120=1 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] McKay correspondence (14E16) Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20)

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