Higher Toroidal Regular Polytopes

Twisted Groups and Locally Toroidal Regular Polytopes

In recent years, much work has been done on the classification of abstract regular polytopes by their local and global topological type. Abstract regular polytopes are combinatorial structures which generalize the wellknown classical geometric regular polytopes and tessellations. In this context, the classical theory is concerned with those which are of globally or locally spherical type. In a ...

Regular polytopes

Regular Polytopes in Z

In [3], all embeddings of regular polyhedra in the three dimensional integer lattice were characterized. Here, we prove some results toward solving this problem for all higher dimensions. Similarly to [3], we consider a few special polytopes in dimension 4 that do not have analogues in higher dimensions. We then begin a classification of hypercubes, and consequently regular cross polytopes in t...

Locally toroidal polytopes and modular linear groups

When the standard representation of a crystallographic Coxeter group G (with string diagram) is reduced modulo the integer d ≥ 2, one obtains a finite group G which is often the automorphism group of an abstract regular polytope. Building on earlier work in the case that d is an odd prime, we here develop methods to handle composite moduli and completely describe the corresponding modular polyt...

1 Classical Regular Polytopes

Our purpose in this introductory chapter is to set the scene for the rest of the book. We shall do this by briefly tracing the historical development of the subject. There are two main reasons for this. First, we wish to recall the historical traditions which lie behind current research. It is all too easy to lose track of the past, and it is as true inmathematics as in anything else that those...