English

Semi-equivelar and vertex-transitive maps on the torus

Geometric Topology 2019-02-22 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

A vertex-transitive map XX is a map on a closed surface on which the automorphism group Aut(X){\rm Aut}(X) acts transitively on the set of vertices. If the face-cycles at all the vertices in a map are of same type then the map is said to be a semi-equivelar map. Clearly, a vertex-transitive map is semi-equivelar. Converse of this is not true in general. We show that there are eleven types of semi-equivelar maps on the torus. Three of these are equivelar maps. It is known that two of the three types of equivelar maps on the torus are always vertex-transitive. We show that this is true for the remaining one type of equivelar map and one other type of semi-equivelar maps, namely, if XX is a semi-equivelar map of type [63][6^3] or [33,42][3^3, 4^2] then XX is vertex-transitive. We also show, by presenting examples, that this result is not true for the remaining seven types of semi-equivelar maps. There are ten types of semi-equivelar maps on the Klein bottle. We present examples in each of the ten types which are not vertex-transitive.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1610.01830,
  title  = {Semi-equivelar and vertex-transitive maps on the torus},
  author = {Basudeb Datta and Dipendu Maity},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01830},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Corrected an error in Lemma 2.2

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