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 and with rational angles in degree: they are a one-parameter family of symmetric -pentagonal subdivisions of the tetrahedron with tiles; a sequence of unique symmetric -pentagons admitting a symmetric -layer earth map tiling by tiles for any , among which each odd case admits two standard flip modifications; and a unique non-symmetric and degenerate -pentagon admitting a non-symmetric -layer earth map tiling and its standard flip modification with 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
63 pages, 12 figures