- Szilassi polyhedron
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Face_List=7hexagon s
Edge_Count=21
Vertex_Count=14
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Vertex_List=6.6.6
Dual=Császár polyhedron
Property_List=NonconvexThe Szilassi polyhedron is a nonconvexpolyhedron , topologically atorus , with seven hexagonal faces.Each face of this polyhedron shares an edge with each other face. It has an axis of 180-degree symmetry; three pairs of faces are congruent leaving one unpaired hexagon that has the same rotational symmetry as the polyhedron. The 14 vertices and 21 edges of the Szilassi polyhedron form an embedding of the
Heawood graph onto the surface of a torus.The
tetrahedron and the Szilassi polyhedron are the only two known polyhedra in which each face shares an edge with each other face. If a polyhedron with "f" faces is embedded onto a surface with "h" holes, in such a way that each face shares an edge with each other face, it follows by some manipulation of theEuler characteristic that:This equation is satisfied for the tetrahedron with "h" = 0 and "f" = 4, and for the Szilassi polyhedron with "h" = 1 and "f" = 7. The next possible solution, "h" = 6 and "f" = 12, would correspond to a polyhedron with 44 vertices and 66 edges, but it is not known whether such a polyhedron exists. More generally this equation can be satisfied only when "f" is congruent to 0, 3, 4, or 7 modulo 12.The Szilassi polyhedron is named after Hungarian mathematician Lajos Szilassi, who discovered it in 1977. The dual to the Szilassi polyhedron, the
Császár polyhedron , was discovered earlier by Ákos Császár (1949); it has seven vertices, 21 edges connecting every pair of vertices, and 14 triangular faces. Like the Szilassi polyhedron, the Császár polyhedron has the topology of a torus.References
*cite journal | author=Császár, A. | title = A polyhedron without diagonals | journal = Acta Sci. Math. Szeged | volume=13 | year=1949 | pages=140–142
*cite journal | author=Gardner, M. | title=Mathematical Games: In Which a Mathematical Aesthetic is Applied to Modern Minimal Art | journal =
Scientific American | volume=239 | pages=22–32 | year=1978*cite journal | author=Jungerman, M.; Ringel, G. | title=Minimal triangulations on orientable surfaces | year=1980 | journal=Acta Mathematica | volume=145 | issue=1–2 | pages=121–154 | doi=10.1007/BF02414187
*cite paper | author=Peterson, I. | title = A polyhedron with a hole | date = 2007 | publisher = MathTrek, Science News Online | url = http://blog.sciencenews.org/mathtrek/2007/01/a_polyhedron_with_a_hole.html
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External links
*cite web | author=Ace, Tom | url=http://www.minortriad.com/szilassi.html | title=The Szilassi polyhedron
* [http://www.jgytf.u-szeged.hu/tanszek/matematika/personal/Szilassi/ Lajos Szilassi's home page]
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