Polyhedra with hexagonal and triangular faces and three faces around each vertex
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 rotations. Every trihex can also be described with either one or three "signatures": triples of numbers 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 in terms of the prime factorization of 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