The 9-vertex complex projective plane

DOI10.1007/BF03026567zbMath0534.51009WikidataQ105532104 ScholiaQ105532104MaRDI QIDQ790424

Wolfgang Kuehnel, Thomas F. Banchoff

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Veronese embedding; minimal triangulation; icosahedron; complex projective plane; tight embedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

51M10: Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations

20B25: Finite automorphism groups of algebraic, geometric, or combinatorial structures

53C42: Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.)

20H15: Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups

14J25: Special surfaces

51N15: Projective analytic geometry

51M35: Synthetic treatment of fundamental manifolds in projective geometries (Grassmannians, Veronesians and their generalizations)

57R05: Triangulating

51F25: Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry

52Bxx: Polytopes and polyhedra

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