Hamiltonian submanifolds of regular polytopes

DOI10.1007/S00454-009-9151-9zbMATH Open1189.52015arXiv0809.4168OpenAlexW3099701694MaRDI QIDQ848673FDOQ848673

Authors: Felix Effenberger, Wolfgang Kühnel 

Publication date: 4 March 2010

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

Abstract: We investigate polyhedral $2k$-manifolds as subcomplexes of the boundary complex of a regular polytope. We call such a subcomplex {it $k$-Hamiltonian} if it contains the full $k$-skeleton of the polytope. Since the case of the cube is well known and since the case of a simplex was also previously studied (these are so-called {it super-neighborly triangulations}) we focus on the case of the cross polytope and the sporadic regular 4-polytopes. By our results the existence of 1-Hamiltonian surfaces is now decided for all regular polytopes. Furthermore we investigate 2-Hamiltonian 4-manifolds in the $d$-dimensional cross polytope. These are the "regular cases" satisfying equality in Sparla's inequality. In particular, we present a new example with 16 vertices which is highly symmetric with an automorphism group of order 128. Topologically it is homeomorphic to a connected sum of 7 copies of $S^{2}imes{S}^2$. By this example all regular cases of $n$ vertices with $n<20$ or, equivalently, all cases of regular $d$-polytopes with $dleq9$ are now decided.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4168

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zbMATH Keywords

regular polytopespolyhedral complexHamiltonian subcomplex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70)

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