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In geometry, a regular skew apeirohedron is an infinite regular skew polyhedron. They have either skew regular faces or skew regular vertex figures.

History

In 1926 John Flinders Petrie took the concept of a regular skew polygons, polygons whose vertices are not all in the same plane, and extended it to polyhedra. While apeirohedra are typically required to tile the 2-dimensional plane, Petrie considered cases where the faces were still convex but were not required to lie flat in the plane, they could have a skew polygon vertex figure.

Petrie discovered two regular skew apeirohedra, the mucube and the muoctahedron. Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter derived a third, the mutetrahedron, and proved that these three were complete. Under Coxeter and Petrie's definition, requiring convex faces and allowing a skew vertex figure, the three were not only the only skew apeirohedra in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, but they were the only skew polyhedra in 3-space as there Coxeter showed there were no finite cases.

In 1967 Garner investigated regular skew apeirohedra in hyperbolic 3-space with Petrie and Coxeters definition, discovering 31Garner mistakenly counts twice giving a count of 18 paracompact cases and 32 total, but only listing 17 paracompact and 31 total. regular skew apeirohedra with compact or paracompact symmetry.

In 1977 Grünbaum generalized skew polyhedra to allow for skew faces as well. Grünbaum discovered an additional 23Polytopes produced as a non-trivial blend have a degree of freedom corresponding to the relative scaling of their components. For this reason some authors count these as infinite families rather than a single polytope. This article counts two polytopes as equal when there is an affine map of full rank between them. skew apeirohedra in 3-dimensional Euclidean space and 3 in 2-dimensional space which are skew by virtue of their faces. 12 of Grünbaum's polyhedra were formed using the blending operation on 2-dimensional apeirohedra, and the other 11 were pure, could not be formed by a non-trivial blend. Grünbaum conjectured that this new list was complete for the parameters considered.

In 1985 Dress found an additional pure regular skew apeirohedron in 3-space, and proved that with this additional skew apeirohedron the list was complete.

Regular skew apeirohedra in Euclidean 3-space

Petrie-Coxeter polyhedra

The three Euclidean solutions in 3-space are , , and . John Conway named them mucube, muoctahedron, and mutetrahedron respectively for multiple cube, octahedron, and tetrahedron.

#Mucube: : 6 squares about each vertex (related to cubic honeycomb, constructed by cubic cells, removing two opposite faces from each, and linking sets of six together around a faceless cube.)
#Muoctahedron: : 4 hexagons about each vertex (related to bitruncated cubic honeycomb, constructed by truncated octahedron with their square faces removed and linking hole pairs of holes together.)
#Mutetrahedron: : 6 hexagons about each vertex (related to quarter cubic honeycomb, constructed by truncated tetrahedron cells, removing triangle faces, and linking sets of four around a faceless tetrahedron.)

Coxeter gives these regular skew apeirohedra with extended chiral symmetry which he says is isomorphic to his abstract group (2''q'',2''r'', 2,''p''). The related honeycomb has the extended symmetry .

Grünbaum-Dress polyhedra

Skew honeycombs

There are 3 regular skew apeirohedra of full rank, also called regular skew honeycombs, that is skew apeirohedra in 2-dimensions. As with the finite skew polyhedra of full rank, all three of these can be obtained by applying the Petrie dual to planar polytopes, in this case the three regular tilings.

Alternatively they can be constructed using the apeir operation on regular polygons. While the Petrial is used the classical construction, it does not generalize well to higher ranks. In contrast, the apeir operation is used to construct higher rank skew honeycombs.

The apeir operation takes the generating mirrors of the polygon, and , and uses them as the mirrors for the vertex figure of a polyhedron, the new vertex mirror is then a point located where the initial vertex of the polygon (or anywhere on the mirror other than its intersection with ). The new initial vertex is placed at the intersection of the mirrors and . Thus the apeir polyhedron is generated by .

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Blended apeirohedra

For any two regular polytopes, and , a new polytope can be made by the following process:

* Start with the Cartesian product of the vertices of with the vertices of .
* Add edges between any two vertices and iff there is an edge between and in and an edge between and in . (If has no edges then add a virtual edge connecting its vertex to itself.)
* Similarly add faces to every set of vertices all incident on the same face in both and . (If has no faces then add a virtual face connecting its edge to itself.)
* Repeat as such for all ranks of proper elements.
* From the resulting polytope, select one connected component.

For regular polytopes the last step is guaranteed to produce a unique result. This new polytope is called the blend of and and is represented .

Equivalently the blend can be obtained by positioning and in orthogonal spaces and taking composing their generating mirrors pairwise.

Blended polyhedra in 3-dimensional space can be made by blending 2-dimensional polyhedra with 1-dimensional polytopes. The only 2-dimensional polyhedra are the 6 honeycombs (3 Euclidean tilings and 3 skew honeycombs):

* Triangular tiling:
* Square tiling:
* Hexagonal tiling:
* Petrial triangular tiling: }
* Petrial square tiling: }
* Petrial hexagonal tiling: }

The only 1-dimensional polytopes are:

* The line segment:
* The apeirogon:

Each pair between these produces a valid distinct regular skew apeirohedron in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, for a total of 12 blended skew apeirohedra.

Since the skeleton of the square tiling is bipartite, two of these blends, and , are combinatrially equivalent to their non-blended counterparts.

Pure apeirohedra

File:Skew_apeirohedra_relations.svg, 350px, Some relationships between the 12 pure apeirohedra in 3D Euclidean space

• represents the Petrial
• represents the dual
• represents halving
• represents facetting
• represents skewing
• represents rectification

rect 85 21 1 2 Skewed muoctahedron
rect 121 2 190 21 Petrial mucube
rect 22 43 70 66 Muoctahedron
rect 133 42 178 65 Mucube
rect 9 90 80 110 Petrial muoctahedron
rect 131 90 182 109 Halved mucbe
rect 131 135 181 155 Petrial halved mucube
rect 19 134 71 161 Skewed Petrial muoctahedron
rect 135 180 181 202 Mutetrahedron
rect 123 223 189 244 Petrial mutetrahedron
rect 227 88 282 114 Trihelical square tiling
rect 228 135 284 159 Tetrahelical triangular tiling
rect 73 60 130 90 Rectification
rect 73 154 131 182 Rectification
rect 33 66 54 91 Petrie dual
rect 143 21 164 42 Petrie dual
rect 143 110 164 135 Petrie dual
rect 242 200 261 224 Petrie dual
rect 244 112 262 135 Petrie dual
rect 146 202 163 222 Petrie dual
rect 243 20 264 45 Petrie dual
rect 71 45 132 60 Dual polyhedron
rect 73 133 131 154 Dual polyhedron
rect 228 18 192 1 Second-order facetting
rect 182 44 237 64 Second-order facetting
rect 184 91 225 109 Second-order facetting
rect 183 136 226 155 Second-order facetting
rect 183 181 236 196 Second-order facetting
rect 191 223 229 241 Second-order facetting
rect 231 1 281 21 Petrial cube
rect 231 223 282 243 Petrial tetrahedron
rect 238 179 275 200 Tetrahedron
rect 239 45 274 64 Cube
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A polytope is considered pure if it cannot be expressed as a non-trivial blend of two polytopes. A blend is considered trivial if it contains the result as one of the components. Alternatively a pure polytope is one whose symmetry group contains no non-trivial subrepresentation.

There are 12 regular pure apeirohedra in 3 dimensions. Three of these are the Petrie-Coxeter polyhedra:
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Three more are obtained as the Petrials of the Petrie-Coxeter polyhedra:
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Three additional pure apeirohedra can be formed with finite skew polygons as faces:

Image:HMC vertex.png, 6 skew hexagons in a hexagonal arrangement form the vertex of .
Image:PHMC vertex.svg, 6 skew squares in a hexagonal arrangement form the vertex of .
Image:SPMO vertex.svg, 4 skew hexagons in a square arrangement form the vertex of .

These 3 are closed under the Wilson operations. Meaning that each can be constructed from any other by some combination of the Petrial and dual operations. is self-dual and is self-Petrial.

Regular skew apeirohedra in hyperbolic 3-space

In 1967, C. W. L. Garner identified 31 hyperbolic skew apeirohedra with regular skew polygon vertex figures, found by extending the Petrie-Coxeter polyhedra to hyperbolic space.

These represent 14 compact and 17 paracompact regular skew polyhedra in hyperbolic space, constructed from the symmetry of a subset of linear and cyclic Coxeter groups graphs of the form , These define ''regular skew polyhedra'' and dual . For the special case of linear graph groups ''r'' = 2, this represents the Coxeter group 'p'',''q'',''p'' It generates regular skews and . All of these exist as a subset of faces of the convex uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space.

The skew apeirohedron shares the same antiprism vertex figure with the honeycomb, but only the zig-zag edge faces of the vertex figure are realized, while the other faces make holes.

See also

* Skew apeirohedron
* Regular skew polyhedron
* Tetrastix

Notes

References

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