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Characterisation of geodesic self-dual regular surface triangulations

Combinatorics 2019-10-23 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

We consider triangulations of closed surfaces in which every vertex is incident to exactly dd edges. These triangulations can be identified with subgroups of the triangle group a,b,ca2,b2,c2,(ab)3,(ac)2,(bc)d\langle a,b,c\mid a^2,b^2,c^2,(ab)^3,(ac)^2,(bc)^d\rangle that intersect a,b\langle a,b\rangle, a,c\langle a,c\rangle, and b,c\langle b,c\rangle trivially. The term geodesic duality refers to an external symmetry introduced by Wilson in 1979. Our main result is the characterisation of all subgroups corresponding to geodesic self--dual regular triangulations, together with a complete enumeration for d<10d < 10.

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@article{arxiv.1910.10112,
  title  = {Characterisation of geodesic self-dual regular surface triangulations},
  author = {Markus Baumeister},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.10112},
  year   = {2019}
}
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