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

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2016.11.021MaRDI QIDQ512083zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruben Mkrtchyan, Hovhannes M. Khudaverdian

Publication date 23 February 2017

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

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

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)

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.

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