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Klein Map


The Klein map is the regular map of type {7,3}_8 on an orientable surface of genus 3, where the subscript 8 gives the length of a Petrie polygon. It has 56 vertices, 84 edges, and 24 heptagonal faces. Its automorphism group has order 336, with an orientation-preserving subgroup of order 168 (Schulte and Wills 2012).

The dual map is the Klein map {3,7}_8, with 24 vertices, 84 edges, and 56 triangular faces. The dual graph is the 24-Klein graph, while the skeleton of the {7,3}_8 map is the 56-Klein graph, also known as the Foster census graph F_(056)B.

McCooey (2009) constructed a non-self-intersecting integer-coordinate polyhedron realizing the {7,3}_8 map with 24 planar nonconvex heptagonal faces. Its geometric symmetry group is the chiral tetrahedral group, a proper subgroup of the full combinatorial automorphism group.


See also

Dual Map, Klein Graphs, Klein Quartic, Petrie Polygon, Regular Map, Riemann Surface

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References

Klein, F. "Über die Transformationen siebenter Ordnung der elliptischen Funktionen." Math. Ann. 14, 428-471, 1879.McCooey, D. I. "A Non-Self-Intersecting Polyhedral Realization of the All-Heptagon Klein Map." Symmetry: Culture and Science 20, 247-268, 2009. https://journal-scs.symmetry.hu/content-pages/volume-20-numbers-1-4-pages-001-448-2009/.McCooey, D. I. "Klein Map {7,3}_8 (Basic Shape)." https://dmccooey.com/polyhedra/KleinBasic.html.Schulte, E. and Wills, J. M. "Convex-Faced Combinatorially Regular Polyhedra of Small Genus." Symmetry 4, 1-14, 2012. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym4010001.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Klein Map." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/KleinMap.html

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