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Convex Polyhedra in the $3$-Sphere and Tilings of the $2$-Sphere

Geometric Topology 2022-04-12 v1 Combinatorics Differential Geometry

Abstract

We show that for every convex polyhedral sphere PP in S3S^3, there exist two canonical, non-edge-to-edge tilings of S2S^{2} whose tiles are given by all the faces of PP and the dual convex polyhedral sphere PP^* to PP. Under the identifications of S3S^{3} with the Lie group SU(2)SU(2), and of S2S^{2} with the unit sphere in the Lie algebra su(2)su(2) of SU(2)SU(2), our result is obtained by considering the set P~\widetilde P of outward unit normal vectors to PP and the maps from P~\widetilde P to S2S^{2} defined by using the left and right Maurer-Cartan forms on SU(2)SU(2).

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@article{arxiv.2204.04592,
  title  = {Convex Polyhedra in the $3$-Sphere and Tilings of the $2$-Sphere},
  author = {Kentaro Ito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04592},
  year   = {2022}
}

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16 pages, 6 figures