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Pairs of mutually complementary 2-dimensional simplicial polyhedra: Interesting examples
S. Lawrencea, A. S. Laob, M. E. Laob, O. I. Chelyapinaa a Russian State University of Tourism and Service; Institute of Service Technologies
(Moscow)
b IT Company “Kometa Games” (Moscow)
Abstract:
We construct an example of a pair of (2-dimensional) 8-vertex simplicial toroidal polyhedra (each polyhedron without self-intersection) with same 1-dimensional skeleton in (Euclidean) 3-space, which do not have a single common 2-face, and the union of the 2-skeletons of these two polyhedra gives a geometric realization of the 2-skeleton of the 4-dimensional hyperoctahedron in 3-space. Also, we construct an example of a pair of 6-vertex simplicial polyhedral projective planes with the same 1-skeleton in 4-space, which do not have a single common 2-face, and the union of these projective planes gives a geometric realization of the 2-skeleton of the 5-hypertetrahedron in 4-space. Finally, it is shown how to imagine, figuratively, the atoms in the molecule of methane CH4 “linked” by a pair of internally disjoint spanning polyhedral Möbius strips.
Keywords:
polyhedron, triangulation, torus, projective plane, Möbius strip, Schlegel diagram, GeoGebra.
Received: 21.08.2022 Accepted: 12.09.2023
Citation:
S. Lawrence, A. S. Lao, M. E. Lao, O. I. Chelyapina, “Pairs of mutually complementary 2-dimensional simplicial polyhedra: Interesting examples”, Chebyshevskii Sb., 24:3 (2023), 42–55
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/cheb1324 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/cheb/v24/i3/p42
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