From the icosahedron to natural triangulations of CP^2 and S ^2 S ^2

DOI10.1007/S00454-010-9281-0MaRDI QIDQ644813zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bhaskar Bagchi, Basudeb Datta

Publication date 7 November 2011

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3157

zbMATH Keywords

complex projective planeicosahedronproduct of 2-spherestriangulated manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10)

Abstract: We present two constructions in this paper: (a) A 10-vertex triangulation $CC{P}_{10}^2$ of the complex projective plane $CC{P}^2$ as a subcomplex of the join of the standard sphere ($S_4^2$) and the standard real projective plane ($RR{P}_6^2$, the decahedron), its automorphism group is $A_4$; (b) a 12-vertex triangulation $(S^{2}imes{S}^2{)}_{12}$ of $S^{2}imes{S}^2$ with automorphism group $2S_5$, the Schur double cover of the symmetric group $S_5$. It is obtained by generalized bistellar moves from a simplicial subdivision of the standard cell structure of $S^{2}imes{S}^2$. Both constructions have surprising and intimate relationships with the icosahedron. It is well known that $CC{P}^2$ has $S^{2}imes{S}^2$ as a two-fold branched cover; we construct the triangulation $CC{P}_{10}^2$ of $CC{P}^2$ by presenting a simplicial realization of this covering map $S^{2}imes{S}^{2}oCC{P}^2$. The domain of this simplicial map is a simplicial subdivision of the standard cell structure of $S^{2}imes{S}^2$, different from the triangulation alluded to in (b). This gives a new proof that Kuehnel's $CC{P}_9^2$ triangulates $CC{P}^2$. It is also shown that $CC{P}_{10}^2$ and $(S^{2}imes{S}^2{)}_{12}$ induce the standard piecewise linear structure on $CC{P}^2$ and $S^{2}imes{S}^2$ respectively.

Review text

The authors present two constructions: a 10-vertex triangulation of the complex projective plane (as a subcomplex of the join of the sphere and the real projective plane), and a 12-vertex triangulation of \(S^2 \times S^2\). The automorphism group is \(A_4\) in the first construction and the Schur double cover of \(S_5\) in the second construction. Both constructions have an intimate relationship with the icosahedron, in some sense analogous to the (well-known) fact that the minimal triangulation of the real projective plane arises naturally from the icosahedron.

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