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Tight Chiral Polytopes

Combinatorics 2020-09-11 v1

Abstract

A chiral polytope with Schl\"{a}fli symbol {p1,,pn1}\{p_1, \ldots, p_{n-1}\} has at least 2p1pn12p_1 \cdots p_{n-1} flags, and it is called \emph{tight} if the number of flags meets this lower bound. The Schl\"{a}fli symbols of tight chiral polyhedra were classified in an earlier paper, and another paper proved that there are no tight chiral nn-polytopes with n6n \geq 6. Here we prove that there are no tight chiral 55-polytopes, describe 11 families of tight chiral 44-polytopes, and show that every tight chiral 44-polytope covers a polytope from one of those families.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2009.04566,
  title  = {Tight Chiral Polytopes},
  author = {Gabe Cunningham and Daniel Pellicer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.04566},
  year   = {2020}
}
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