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Regular Skew Polyhedron


A regular skew polyhedron, in the classical Coxeter-Petrie terminology, is an infinite regular polyhedron in Euclidean space with planar regular polygon faces and regular skew polygons as vertex figures. In modern terminology, such a polyhedron is a regular skew apeirohedron. There are exactly three in three-dimensional Euclidean space: {4,6|4}, {6,4|4}, and {6,6|3} (Coxeter 1937).

Garner (1967) considered regular skew polyhedra in hyperbolic space H^3 and found 32 associated with honeycombs whose cells and vertex figures are not inscribed in equidistant surfaces.


See also

Regular Polyhedron, Skew Polygon, Vertex Figure

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References

Coxeter, H. S. M. "Regular Skew Polyhedra in Three and Four Dimensions." Proc. London Math. Soc. 43, 33-62, 1937.Garner, C. W. L. "Regular Skew Polyhedra in Hyperbolic Three-Space." Canad. J. Math. 19, 1179-1186, 1967.

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