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Tilings of the sphere by congruent pentagons V: Edge combination $a^{4}b$ with rational angles

Combinatorics 2025-07-10 v1

Abstract

We classify edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by congruent pentagons with the edge combination a4ba^4b and with rational angles in degree: they are a one-parameter family of symmetric a4ba^4b-pentagonal subdivisions of the tetrahedron with 1212 tiles; a sequence of unique symmetric a4ba^4b-pentagons admitting a symmetric 33-layer earth map tiling by 4m4m tiles for any m4m\ge4, among which each odd mm case admits two standard flip modifications; and a unique non-symmetric and degenerate a4ba^4b-pentagon admitting a non-symmetric 33-layer earth map tiling and its standard flip modification with 2020 tiles. The full classification from this series and all induced non-edge-to-edge quadrilateral tilings from degenerate pentagons are summarized with their 3D pictures.

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@article{arxiv.2507.07038,
  title  = {Tilings of the sphere by congruent pentagons V: Edge combination $a^{4}b$ with rational angles},
  author = {Jinjin Liang and Yixi Liao and Wenchuan Hu and Erxiao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.07038},
  year   = {2025}
}

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63 pages, 12 figures