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Regular skew polyhedron

Polyhedron with non-planar faces

In geometry, the regular skew polyhedra are generalizations to the set of regular polyhedra which include the possibility of nonplanar faces or vertex figures. Coxeter looked at skew vertex figures which created new 4-dimensional regular polyhedra, and much later Branko Grünbaum looked at regular skew faces.

Infinite regular skew polyhedra that span 3-space or higher are called regular skew apeirohedra.

History

According to Coxeter, in 1926 John Flinders Petrie generalized the concept of regular skew polygons (nonplanar polygons) to regular skew polyhedra.

Coxeter offered a modified Schläfli symbol {l,m**n} for these figures, with {l,m} implying the vertex figure, m l-gons around a vertex, and n-gonal holes. Their vertex figures are skew polygons, zig-zagging between two planes.

The regular skew polyhedra, represented by {l,m**n}, follow this equation: : 2 \cos \frac{\pi}{l} \cos \frac{\pi}{m} = \cos \frac{\pi}{n}

A first set {l,m**n}, repeats the five convex Platonic solids, and one nonconvex Kepler–Poinsot solid: : {| class=wikitable ! {l,m**n} !Faces !Edges !Vertices !p !Polyhedron !Symmetryorder |- BGCOLOR="#e0f0e0" align=center | {3,3 3} = {3,3} || 4||6||4 || 0|| Tetrahedron||12 |- BGCOLOR="#f0e0e0" align=center | {3,4 4} = {3,4} ||8||12||6 || 0|| Octahedron||24 |- BGCOLOR="#e0e0f0" align=center | {4,3 4} = {4,3} ||6||12||8 || 0|| Cube||24 |- BGCOLOR="#f0e0e0" align=center | {3,5 5} = {3,5} ||20||30||12 || 0||Icosahedron||60 |- BGCOLOR="#e0e0f0" align=center | {5,3 5} = {5,3} ||12||30||20 || 0|| Dodecahedron||60 |- BGCOLOR="#e0f0e0" align=center | {5,5 3} = {5,5/2} ||12||30||12 || 4|| Great dodecahedron||60 |}

Finite regular skew polyhedra

A4 Coxeter plane projections	{4, 6 3}	{6, 4 3}	F4 Coxeter plane projections
[[File:4-simplex t03.svg	150px]]	[[File:4-simplex t12.svg	150px]]
Runcinated 5-cell(20 vertices, 60 edges)	Bitruncated 5-cell(30 vertices, 60 edges)
[[File:24-cell t03 F4.svg	150px]]	[[File:24-cell t12 F4.svg	150px]]
Runcinated 24-cell(144 vertices, 576 edges)	Bitruncated 24-cell(288 vertices, 576 edges)
[[File:Complex polyhedron almost regular 42 vertices.png	150px]]	[[File:Complex polyhedron almost regular 46 vertices.png	150px]]
42 vertices, 168 edges	56 vertices, 168 edges
Some of the 4-dimensional regular skew polyhedra fits inside the uniform polychora as shown in the top 4 projections.

Coxeter also enumerated the a larger set of finite regular polyhedra in his paper "regular skew polyhedra in three and four dimensions, and their topological analogues".

Just like the infinite skew polyhedra represent manifold surfaces between the cells of the convex uniform honeycombs, the finite forms all represent manifold surfaces within the cells of the uniform 4-polytopes.

Polyhedra of the form {2p, 2q | r} are related to Coxeter group symmetry of [(p,r,q,r)], which reduces to the linear [r,p,r] when q is 2. Coxeter gives these symmetry as [[(p,r,q,r)]+] which he says is isomorphic to his abstract group (2p,2q|2,r). The related honeycomb has the extended symmetry [[(p,r,q,r)]].

{2p,4|r} is represented by the {2p} faces of the bitruncated {r,p,r} uniform 4-polytope, and {4,2p|r} is represented by square faces of the runcinated {r,p,r}.

{4,4|n} produces a n-n duoprism, and specifically {4,4|4} fits inside of a {4}x{4} tesseract.

[[Image:Duocylinder ridge animated.gif	160px]]The {4,4 n} solutions represent the square faces of the duoprisms, with the n-gonal faces as holes and represent a Clifford torus, and an approximation of a duocylinder	[[File:6-6_duoprism_torus.png	160px]]{4,46} has 36 square faces, seen in perspective projection as squares extracted from a 6,6 duoprism.	[[File:4-4-4_skew_polyhedron.png	160px]]{4,44} has 16 square faces and exists as a subset of faces in a tesseract.

{l, m n}	Faces	Edges	Vertices	p	Structure	Symmetry	Order	Related uniform polychora
{4,4 3}	9	18	9	1	D3xD3	[[3,2,3]+]	9	3-3 duoprism
{4,4 4}	16	32	16	1	D4xD4	[[4,2,4]+]	16	4-4 duoprism or tesseract
{4,4 5}	25	50	25	1	D5xD5	[[5,2,5]+]	25	5-5 duoprism
{4,4 6}	36	72	36	1	D6xD6	[[6,2,6]+]	36	6-6 duoprism
{4,4 n}	n2	2n2	n2	1	DnxDn	[[n,2,n]+]	n2	n-n duoprism
{4,6 3}	30	60	20	6	S5	[[3,3,3]+]	60	Runcinated 5-cell
{6,4 3}	20	60	30	6	S5	[[3,3,3]+]	60	Bitruncated 5-cell
{4,8 3}	288	576	144	73		[[3,4,3]+]	576	Runcinated 24-cell
{8,4 3}	144	576	288	73		[[3,4,3]+]	576	Bitruncated 24-cell

{l, m n}	Faces	Edges	Vertices	p	Structure	Symmetry	Order	Related uniform polychora
{4,5 5}	90	180	72	10	A6	[[5/2,5,5/2]+]	360	Runcinated grand stellated 120-cell
{5,4 5}	72	180	90	10	A6	[[5/2,5,5/2]+]	360	Bitruncated grand stellated 120-cell

{l, m n}	Faces	Edges	Vertices	p	Structure	Order	Related uniform polytopes
{4,5 4}	40	80	32	5	?	160	5-cube vertices (±1,±1,±1,±1,±1) and edges
{5,4 4}	32	80	40	5	?	160	Rectified 5-orthoplex vertices (±1,±1,0,0,0)
{4,7 3}	42	84	24	10	LF(2,7)	168
{7,4 3}	24	84	42	10	LF(2,7)	168
{5,5 4}	72	180	72	19	A6	360
{6,7 3}	182	546	156	105	LF(2,13)	1092
{7,6 3}	156	546	182	105	LF(2,13)	1092
{7,7 3}	156	546	156	118	LF(2,13)	1092
{4,9 3}	612	1224	272	171	LF(2,17)	2448
{9,4 3}	272	1224	612	171	LF(2,17)	2448
{7,8 3}	1536	5376	1344	1249	?	10752
{8,7 3}	1344	5376	1536	1249	?	10752

A final set is based on Coxeter's further extended form {q1,m|q2,q3...} or with q2 unspecified: {l, m , q}. These can also be represented a regular finite map or {l, m}2q, and group Gl,m,q.

{l, m , q} or {l, m}2q	Faces	Edges	Vertices	p	Structure	Order	Related complex polyhedra
{3,6,q} = {3,6}2q	2q2	3q2	q2	1	G3,6,2q	2q2
{3,2q,3} = {3,2q}6	2q2	3q2	3q	(q−1)(q*−2)/2	G3,6,2q	2q2
{3,7,4} = {3,7}8	56	84	24	3	LF(2,7)	168
{3,8,4} = {3,8}8	112	168	42	8	PGL(2,7)	336	(1 1 114)4,
{4,6,3} = {4,6}6	84	168	56	15	PGL(2,7)	336	(14 14 11)(3),
{3,7,6} = {3,7}12	364	546	156	14	LF(2,13)	1092
{3,7,7} = {3,7}14	364	546	156	14	LF(2,13)	1092
{3,8,5} = {3,8}10	720	1080	270	46	G3,8,10	2160	(1 1 114)5,
{3,10,4} = {3,10}8	720	1080	216	73	G3,8,10	2160	(1 1 115)4,
{4,6,2} = {4,6}4	12	24	8	3	S4×S2	48
{5,6,2} = {5,6}4	24	60	20	9	A5×S2	120
{3,11,4} = {3,11}8	2024	3036	552	231	LF(2,23)	6072
{3,7,8} = {3,7}16	3584	5376	1536	129	G3,7,17	10752
{3,9,5} = {3,9}10	12180	18270	4060	1016	LF(2,29)×A3	36540

Higher dimensions

Regular skew polyhedra can also be constructed in dimensions higher than 4 as embeddings into regular polytopes or honeycombs. For example, the regular icosahedron can be embedded into the vertices of the 6-demicube; this was named the regular skew icosahedron by H. S. M. Coxeter. The dodecahedron can be similarly embedded into the 10-demicube.

Notes

References

Peter McMullen, Four-Dimensional Regular Polyhedra, Discrete & Computational Geometry September 2007, Volume 38, Issue 2, pp 355–387
Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, Third edition, (1973), Dover edition,
Kaleidoscopes: Selected Writings of H. S. M. Coxeter, edited by F. Arthur Sherk, Peter McMullen, Anthony C. Thompson, Asia Ivic Weiss, Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1995, http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471010030.html
- (Paper 2) H.S.M. Coxeter, "The Regular Sponges, or Skew Polyhedra", Scripta Mathematica 6 (1939) 240-244.
- (Paper 22) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi Regular Polytopes I, [Math. Zeit. 46 (1940) 380–407, MR 2,10]
- (Paper 23) H.S.M. Coxeter, Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II, [Math. Zeit. 188 (1985) 559–591]
Coxeter, The Beauty of Geometry: Twelve Essays, Dover Publications, 1999, (Chapter 5: Regular Skew Polyhedra in three and four dimensions and their topological analogues, Proceedings of the London Mathematics Society, Ser. 2, Vol 43, 1937.)
- Coxeter, H. S. M. Regular Skew Polyhedra in Three and Four Dimensions. Proc. London Math. Soc. 43, 33-62, 1937.
Garner, C. W. L. Regular Skew Polyhedra in Hyperbolic Three-Space. Can. J. Math. 19, 1179-1186, 1967.
E. Schulte, J.M. Wills On Coxeter's regular skew polyhedra, Discrete Mathematics, Volume 60, June–July 1986, Pages 253–262

References

Abstract regular polytopes, p.7, p.17
Coxeter, ''Regular and Semi-Regular Polytopes II'' 2.34)
Coxeter and Moser, Generators and relations for discrete groups, Sec 8.6 Maps having specified Petrie polygons. p. 110
(1998). "Embedding the graphs of regular tilings and star-honeycombs into the graphs of hypercubes and cubic lattices". Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics.

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