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Szilassi polyhedron

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Coloring and symmetry
Complete face adjacency
History
References
External links

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|type=Toroidal polyhedron
|faces=7 hexagons
|edges=21
|vertices=14
|euler=0 (Genus 1)
|symmetry=C₁, ⁺, (11)
|vertex_config=6.6.6
|dual=Császár polyhedron
|properties=Nonconvex
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The Szilassi polyhedron is a nonconvex polyhedron, topologically a torus, with seven hexagonal faces.

Coloring and symmetry

Each face of this polyhedron shares an edge with each other face. As a result, it requires seven colours to colour all adjacent faces, providing the lower bound for the seven colour theorem. It has an axis of 180-degree symmetry; three pairs of faces are congruent leaving one unpaired hexagon that has the same rotational symmetry as the polyhedron. The 14 vertices and 21 edges of the Szilassi polyhedron form an embedding of the Heawood graph onto the surface of a torus.

Complete face adjacency

The tetrahedron and the Szilassi polyhedron are the only two known polyhedra in which each face shares an edge with each other face.

If a polyhedron with f faces is embedded onto a surface with h holes, in such a way that each face shares an edge with each other face, it follows by some manipulation of the Euler characteristic that

This equation is satisfied for the tetrahedron with h = 0 and f = 4, and for the Szilassi polyhedron with h = 1 and f = 7.

The next possible solution, h = 6 and f = 12, would correspond to a polyhedron with 44 vertices and 66 edges. However, it is not known whether such a polyhedron can be realized geometrically (rather than as an abstract polytope). More generally this equation can be satisfied precisely when f is congruent to 0, 3, 4, or 7 modulo 12.

History

The Szilassi polyhedron is named after Hungarian mathematician Lajos Szilassi, who discovered it in 1977. The dual to the Szilassi polyhedron, the Császár polyhedron, was discovered earlier by {{harvs|first=Ákos|last=Császár|authorlink=Ákos Császár|year=1949|txt}}; it has seven vertices, 21 edges connecting every pair of vertices, and 14 triangular faces. Like the Szilassi polyhedron, the Császár polyhedron has the topology of a torus.

{{unsolved|mathematics|Is there a non-convex polyhedron with more than seven faces, all of which share an edge with each other?}}

References

{{citation

| last = Császár | first = Ákos | author-link = Ákos Császár
| journal = Acta Sci. Math. Szeged
| pages = 140–142
| title = A polyhedron without diagonals
| volume = 13
| year = 1949}}.

{{citation

| doi = 10.1038/scientificamerican1178-22
| last = Gardner | first = Martin | author-link = Martin Gardner
| title = In Which a Mathematical Aesthetic is Applied to Modern Minimal Art
| journal = Scientific American
| pages = 22–32
| department = Mathematical Games
| issue = 5
| volume = 239
| year = 1978}}.

{{citation

| last1 = Jungerman | first1 = M.
| last2 = Ringel | first2 = Gerhard | author2-link = Gerhard Ringel
| doi = 10.1007/BF02414187
| issue = 1–2
| journal = Acta Mathematica
| pages = 121–154
| title = Minimal triangulations on orientable surfaces
| volume = 145
| year = 1980}}.

{{citation

| last = Peterson | first = Ivars | author-link = Ivars Peterson
| publisher = Mathematical Association of America
| contribution = A polyhedron with a hole
| title = MathTrek
| url = http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_01_22_07.html
| year = 2007}}.

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1. ^Branko Grünbaum, Lajos Szilassi, Geometric Realizations of Special Toroidal Complexes, Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, Volume 4, Number 1, Pages 21-39, ISSN 1715-0868

External links

{{citation

| last = Ace | first = Tom
| title = The Szilassi polyhedron
| url = http://www.minortriad.com/szilassi.html}}.

{{MathWorld | urlname=SzilassiPolyhedron | title=Szilassi Polyhedron}}
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