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Geometric realization of toroidal quadrangulations without hidden symmetries

Metric Geometry 2014-09-16 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

It is shown that each quadrangulation of the 2-torus by the Cartesian product of two cycles can be geometrically realized in (Euclidean) 4-space without hidden symmetries---that is, so that each combinatorial cellular automorphism of the quadrangulation extends to a geometric symmetry of its Euclidean realization. Such realizations turn out to be new regular toroidal geometric 2-polyhedra which are inscribed in the Clifford 2-torus in 4-space, just as the five regular spherical 2-polyhedra are inscribed in the 2-sphere in 3-space. The following are two open problems: Realize geometrically (1) the regular triangulations and (2) the regular hexagonizations of the 2-torus without hidden symmetries in 4-space.

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@article{arxiv.1307.1054,
  title  = {Geometric realization of toroidal quadrangulations without hidden symmetries},
  author = {Serge Lawrencenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.1054},
  year   = {2014}
}

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