A variation on the Rubik's cube
Combinatorics
2020-12-02 v1
Abstract
The Rubik's cube is a famous puzzle in which faces can be moved and the corresponding movement operations define a group. We consider here a generalization to any -valent map. We prove an upper bound on the size of the corresponding group which we conjecture to be tight.
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@article{arxiv.2012.00473,
title = {A variation on the Rubik's cube},
author = {Mathieu Dutour Sikirić},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.00473},
year = {2020}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures