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On the Number of Sides of a Petrie Polygon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert Steinberg*
Affiliation:
University of California
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Let {p, q, r} be the regular 4-dimensional poly tope for which each face is a {p, q} and each vertex figure is a {q, r}, where {p, q}, for example, is the regular polyhedron with p-gonal faces, q at each vertex. A Petrie polygon of {p, q} is a skew polygon made up of edges of {p, q} such that every two consecutive sides belong to the same face, but no three consecutive sides do. Then a Petrie polygon of {p, g, r} is defined by the property that every three consecutive sides belong to a Petrie polygon of a bounding {p, q}, but no four do. Let hPqr be the number of sides of such a polygon, and gp,q,r the order of the group of symmetries of {p, g, r}.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1958

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