Two infinite families of chiral polytopes of type \{4,4,4\} with solvable automorphism groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2020.11.002MaRDI QIDQ6330639arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Marston D. E. Conder, Yan-Quan Feng, Dong-Dong Hou

Publication date 6 December 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures (20B25) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

Abstract: We construct two infinite families of locally toroidal chiral polytopes of type $4,4,4$, with $1024m^2$ and $2048m^2$ automorphisms for every positive integer $m$, respectively. The automorphism groups of these polytopes are solvable groups, and when $m$ is a power of $2$, they provide examples with automorphism groups of order $2^n$ where $n$ can be any integer greater than $9$. (On the other hand, no chiral polytopes of type $[4,4,4]$ exist for $nleq9$.) In particular, our two families give a partial answer to a problem proposed by Schulte and Weiss in [Problems on polytopes, their groups, and realizations, {em Periodica Math. Hungarica} 53 (2006), 231-255].

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