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Zigzag structure of thin chamber complexes

Combinatorics 2017-02-02 v3

Abstract

Zigzags and generalized zigzags in thin chamber complexes are investigated, in particular, all zigzags in the Coxeter complexes are described. Using this description, we show that the lengths of all generalized zigzags in the simplex αn\alpha_{n}, the cross-polytope βn\beta_{n}, the 2424-cell, the icosahedron and the 600600-cell are equal to the Coxeter numbers of AnA_{n}, Bn=CnB_{n}=C_{n}, F4F_{4} and HiH_{i}, i=3,4i=3,4, respectively. Also, we discuss the following problem: in which cases two faces in a thin chamber complex can be connected by a zigzag?

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@article{arxiv.1509.03754,
  title  = {Zigzag structure of thin chamber complexes},
  author = {Michel Deza and Mark Pankov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03754},
  year   = {2017}
}
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