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Abstract Chiral Polytopes

Abstract Chiral Polytopes

Abstract Chiral Polytopes

Daniel Pellicer, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
April 2025
Hardback
9781108493246
$180.00
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    Abstract polytopes are partially ordered sets that satisfy some key aspects of the face lattices of convex polytopes. They are chiral if they have maximal symmetry by combinatorial rotations, but none by combinatorial reflections. Aimed at graduate students and researchers in combinatorics, group theory or Euclidean geometry, this text gives a self-contained introduction to abstract polytopes and specialises in chiral abstract polytopes. The first three chapters are introductory and mostly contain basic concepts and results. The fourth chapter talks about ways to obtain chiral abstract polytopes from other abstract polytopes, while the fifth discusses families of chiral polytopes grouped by common properties such as their rank, their small size or their geometric origin. Finally, the last chapter relates chiral polytopes with geometric objects in Euclidean spaces. This material is complemented by a number of examples, exercises and figures, and a list of 75 open problems to inspire further research.

    • Contains numerous examples, figures and exercises to help readers develop a deeper understanding of the concepts
    • Does not assume advanced knowledge from other areas of mathematics, to remain accessible to beginning graduate and advanced undergraduate students
    • Lists open problems to inspire readers in their own research

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    April 2025
    Hardback
    9781108493246
    491 pages
    235 × 160 × 29 mm
    0.852kg
    Not yet published - available from June 2025

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Abstract regular and chiral polytopes
    • 3. Groups related to chiral polytopes
    • 4. Polytopes constructed from other polytopes
    • 5. Families of chiral polytopes
    • 6. Skeletal polytopes
    • A. A few treats on Euclidean geometry
    • B. A few words about numbers
    • C. Open problems
    • References
    • Index.
      Author
    • Daniel Pellicer , Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

      Daniel Pellicer is Investigador Titular B at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was awarded the Marsden postdoctoral fellowship by the Fields Institute (2011), and a Young Affiliate Fellowship by TWAS (2013–2018).