Degree-regular triangulations of torus and Klein bottle

Details Degree-regular triangulations of torus and Klein bottle Degree-regular triangulations of torus and Klein bottle

2004-03-25

arxiv.org/abs/math/0403433v2

Mathematics

Geometric Topology

Revised version, 26 pages, To appear in Proceedings of Indian Academy of Sciences (Math. Sci.)

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A triangulation of a connected closed surface is called weakly regular if the action of its automorphism group on its vertices is transitive. A triangulation of a connected closed surface is called degree-regular if each of its vertices have the same degree. Clearly, a weakly regular triangulation is degree-regular. In 1999, Lutz has classified all the weakly regular triangulations on at most 15 vertices. In 2001, Datta and Nilakantan have classified all the degree-regular triangulations of closed surfaces on at most 11 vertices. In this article, we have proved that any degree-regular triangulation of the torus is weakly regular. We have shown that there exists an $n$-vertex degree-regular triangulation of the Klein bottle if and only if $n$ is a composite number $\geq 9$. We have constructed two distinct $n$-vertex weakly regular triangulations of the torus for each $n \geq 12$ and a $(4m + 2)$-vertex weakly regular triangulation of the Klein bottle for each $m \geq 2$. For $12 \leq n \leq 15$, we have classified all the $n$-vertex degree-regular triangulations of the torus and the Klein bottle. There are exactly 19 such triangulations, 12 of which are triangulations of the torus and remaining 7 are triangulations of the Klein bottle. Among the last 7, only one is weakly regular.

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