The cube


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Statistics

genus c0, orientable
Schläfli formula c{4,3}
V / F / E c 8 / 6 / 12
notesreplete singular is a polyhedral map permutes its vertices evenly
vertex, face multiplicity c1, 1
Petrie polygons
4, each with 6 edges
antipodal sets4 of ( 2v; p1 ), 3 of ( 2f ), 6 of ( 2e )
rotational symmetry groupS4, with 24 elements
full symmetry groupS4×C2, with 48 elements
its presentation c< r, s, t | r2, s2, t2, (rs)4, (st)3, (rt)2 >.
C&D number cR0.2′
The statistics marked c are from the published work of Professor Marston Conder.

Relations to other Regular Maps

Its dual is the octahedron.

Its Petrie dual is {6,3}(2,2).

It is a 2-fold cover of the hemicube.

It can be built by splitting the hemicube.

It can be rectified to give the cuboctahedron.

It can be pyritified (type 4/3/5/3) to give the dodecahedron.
It is the result of pyritifying (type 2/3/4/3) the 3-hosohedron.

Its half shuriken is C4:{4,6}3.

Other regular maps in the same manifold.

Underlying Graph

If we ignore its faces and regard it as a graph, it is isomorphic to C4 × K2.

Comments

This is one of the five "Platonic solids".

This regular map features in the movie Symmetric Tiling of Closed Surfaces: Visualization of Regular Maps.

Cayley Graphs based in this Regular Map


Type I

C4×C2
D8
D8
C2×C2×C2

Type II

S4

Type IIa

A4×C2

Type III

S4×C2

Other Regular Maps

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