Polyhedra and packings from hyperbolic honeycombs

被引:8
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作者
Pedersen, Martin Cramer [1 ]
Hyde, Stephen T. [1 ]
机构
[1] Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Phys & Engn, Dept Appl Math, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
关键词
hyperbolic geometry; nets; minimal surfaces; graph embeddings; symmetry groups; SYMMETRY; SURFACES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; RETICULATIONS; CRYSTALLINE; PRINCIPLES; TETRAHEDRA; TILINGS; PHASES; NETS;
D O I
10.1073/pnas.1720307115
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
We derive more than 80 embeddings of 2D hyperbolic honeycombs in Euclidean 3 space, forming 3-periodic infinite polyhedra with cubic symmetry. All embeddings are "minimally frustrated," formed by removing just enough isometries of the (regular, but unphysical) 2D hyperbolic honeycombs {3, 7}g, {3, 8}, {3, 9}, {3, 10}g, and {3, 12}g to allow embeddings in Euclidean 3 space. Nearly all of these triangulated "simplicial polyhedra" have symmetrically identical vertices, and most are chiral. The most symmetric examples include 10 infinite "deltahedra," with equilateral triangular faces, 6 of which were previously unknown and some of which can be described as packings of Platonic deltahedra. We describe also related cubic crystalline packings of equal hyperbolic discs in 3 space that are frustrated analogues of optimally dense hyperbolic disc packings. The 10-coordinated packings are the least "loosened" Euclidean embeddings, although frustration swells all of the hyperbolic disc packings to give less dense arrays than the flat penny-packing even though their unfrustrated analogues in H-2 are denser.
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页码:6905 / 6910
页数:6
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