Title
Unfoldings of doubly covered polyhedra and applications to space-fillers.
Abstract
We study unfoldings (developments) of doubly covered polyhedra, which are space-fillers in the case of cuboids and some others. All five types of parallelohedra are examples of unfoldings of doubly covered cuboids (Proposition 1). We give geometric properties of convex unfoldings of doubly covered cuboids and determine all convex unfoldings (Theorem 1). We prove that every unfolding of doubly covered cuboids has a space-filling (consisting of its congruent copies) generated by three specified translates and three specified rotations, and that all such space-fillers are derived from unfoldings of doubly covered cuboids (Theorem 2). Finally, we extend these results from cuboids to polyhedra which are fundamental regions of the Coxeter groups generated by reflections in the 3-space and which have no obtuse dihedral angles (Theorem 3).
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/s10998-011-7047-y
Periodica Mathematica Hungarica
Keywords
Field
DocType
unfolding,parallelohedron,tiling,space-filler,05B45,51M20,52C22
Topology,Combinatorics,Parallelohedron,Mathematical analysis,Polyhedron,Regular polygon,Cuboid,Congruence (geometry),Dihedral angle,Mathematics,Coxeter group
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
63
1
0031-5303
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jin-ichi Itoh14710.17
Chie Nara255.54