Abstract Regular Polytopes

ISBN-13: 9780521814966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 566 str.

Peter McMullen; Egon Schulte

Opis

Abstract regular polytopes stand at the end of more than two millennia of geometrical research, which began with regular polygons and polyhedra. The rapid development of the subject in the past twenty years has resulted in a rich new theory featuring an attractive interplay of mathematical areas, including geometry, combinatorics, group theory and topology. This is the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the subject and its ramifications. It meets a critical need for such a text, because no book has been published in this area since Coxeter's "Regular Polytopes" (1948) and "Regular Complex Polytopes" (1974).

Recenzje

'This book should be properly seen as the primary reference for the theory of abstract polytopes, especially of abstract regular polytopes … The book is very comprehensive and deep in its coverage of the topic. Almost everything known about abstract regular polytopes until the date of publication may be found somewhere within its 551 pages.' Zentralblatt MATH

Spis treści

Foreword; 1. Classical regular polytopes; 2. Regular polytopes; 3. Coxeter groups; 4. Amalgamation; 5. Realizations; 6. Regular polytopes on space-forms; 7. Mixing; 8. Twisting; 9. Unitary groups and hermitian forms; 10. Locally toroidal 4-polytopes: I; 11. Locally toroidal 4-polytopes: II; 12. Higher toroidal polytopes; 13. Regular polytopes related to linear groups; 14. Miscellaneous classes of regular polytopes; Bibliography; Indices.