The Hexagonal Tiling Honeycomb
Abstract
The hexagonal tiling honeycomb is a beautiful structure in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. It is called {6,3,3} because each hexagon has 6 edges, 3 hexagons meet at each vertex in a Euclidean plane tiled by regular hexagons, and 3 such planes meet along each edge of this honeycomb. It also appears naturally in algebraic geometry. If denotes the Eisenstein integers, the N\'eron-Severi group of the abelian surface is isomorphic to the lattice consisting of hermitian matrices with Eisenstein integer entries. The points with and come from ample line bundles on , and among these points, those with correspond to principal polarizations. But these points are precisely the centers of the hexagons in the hexagonal tiling honeycomb!
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@article{arxiv.2412.00048,
title = {The Hexagonal Tiling Honeycomb},
author = {John C. Baez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.00048},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
2 pages, figure by Roice Nelson