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A Census of Edge-transitive Surfaces

Published: November 10, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.07631v1

By: Reymond Akpanya

Potential Business Impact:

Finds all shapes that look the same from every side.

Business Areas:
Space Travel Transportation

In this paper, we study edge-transitive surfaces, i.e. triangulated 2-dimensional manifolds whose automorphism groups act transitively on the edges of these triangulated surfaces. We show that there exist four types of edge-transitive surfaces, splitting up further into a total of five sub-types. We exploit our theoretical results to compute a census of edge-transitive surfaces with up to 5000 faces by constructing suitable cycle double covers of edge-transitive cubic graphs.

Country of Origin
🇦🇺 Australia

Page Count
12 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Combinatorics