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Hypercube embedding of Wythoffians

Combinatorics 2008-08-11 v5 Geometric Topology

Abstract

The Wythoff construction takes a dd-dimensional polytope PP, a subset SS of {0,...,d}\{0,..., d\} and returns another dd-dimensional polytope P(S)P(S). If PP is a regular polytope, then P(S)P(S) is vertex-transitive. This construction builds a large part of the Archimedean polytopes and tilings in dimension 3 and 4. We want to determine, which of those Wythoffians P(S)P(S) with regular PP have their skeleton or dual skeleton isometrically embeddable into the hypercubes HmH_m and half-cubes 1/2Hm{1/2}H_m. We find six infinite series, which, we conjecture, cover all cases for dimension d>5d>5 and some sporadic cases in dimension 3 and 4 (see Tables \ref{WythoffEmbeddable3} and \ref{WythoffEmbeddable4}). Three out of those six infinite series are explained by a general result about the embedding of Wythoff construction for Coxeter groups. In the last section, we consider the Euclidean case; also, zonotopality of embeddable P(S)P(S) are addressed throughout the text.

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@article{arxiv.math/0407527,
  title  = {Hypercube embedding of Wythoffians},
  author = {Michel Deza and Mathieu Dutour and Sergey Shpectorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0407527},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages, 6 tables