English

Polyhedra with hexagonal and triangular faces and three faces around each vertex

Combinatorics 2025-07-01 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We analyze polyhedra composed of hexagons and triangles with three faces around each vertex, and their 3-regular planar graphs of edges and vertices, which we call "trihexes". Trihexes are analogous to fullerenes, which are 3-regular planar graphs whose faces are all hexagons and pentagons. Every trihex can be represented as the quotient of a hexagonal tiling of the plane under a group of isometries generated by 180180^\circ rotations. Every trihex can also be described with either one or three "signatures": triples of numbers (s,b,f)(s, b, f) that describe the arrangement of the rotocenters of these rotations. Simple arithmetic rules relate the three signatures that describe the same trihex. We obtain a bijection between trihexes and equivalence classes of signatures as defined by these rules. Labeling trihexes with signatures allows us to put bounds on the number of trihexes for a given number vertices vv in terms of the prime factorization of vv and to prove a conjecture concerning trihexes that have no "belts" of hexagons.

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@article{arxiv.2306.15820,
  title  = {Polyhedra with hexagonal and triangular faces and three faces around each vertex},
  author = {Linda Green and Stellen Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.15820},
  year   = {2025}
}

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26 pages, 19 figures

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