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Degree-regular triangulations of the double-torus

Algebraic Topology 2007-05-23 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

A connected combinatorial 2-manifold is called degree-regular if each of its vertices have the same degree. A connected combinatorial 2-manifold is called weakly regular if it has a vertex-transitive automorphism group. Clearly, a weakly regular combinatorial 2-manifold is degree-regular and a degree-regular combinatorial 2-manifold of Euler characteristic - 2 must contain 12 vertices. In 1982, McMullen et al. constructed a 12-vertex geometrically realized triangulation of the double-torus in \RR3\RR^3. As an abstract simplicial complex, this triangulation is a weakly regular combinatorial 2-manifold. In 1999, Lutz showed that there are exactly three weakly regular orientable combinatorial 2-manifolds of Euler characteristic - 2. In this article, we classify all the orientable degree-regular combinatorial 2-manifolds of Euler characteristic - 2. There are exactly six such combinatorial 2-manifolds. This classifies all the orientable equivelar polyhedral maps of Euler characteristic - 2.

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@article{arxiv.math/0508106,
  title  = {Degree-regular triangulations of the double-torus},
  author = {Basudeb Datta and Ashish Kumar Upadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0508106},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

13 pages. To appear in `Forum Mathematicum'

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