Tiling the Sphere with Regular Polygons

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Main Authors: Luk, Hoi Ping, Nedela, Roman, Purcell, Christopher
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author Luk, Hoi Ping
Nedela, Roman
Purcell, Christopher
author_facet Luk, Hoi Ping
Nedela, Roman
Purcell, Christopher
contents We give a complete classification of edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by regular polygons under a unified framework. Without assuming convexity of the tiles or polyhedrality of the underlying graph, our proof is independent of the Johnson-Zalgaller classification of solids with regular faces (1967), which took over 200 pages. We apply a blend of trigonometric, algebraic and combinatorial tools of independent interest.
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spellingShingle Tiling the Sphere with Regular Polygons
Luk, Hoi Ping
Nedela, Roman
Purcell, Christopher
Combinatorics
Metric Geometry
Rings and Algebras
05B45, 52C20, 51M20, 52B10, 51M10
We give a complete classification of edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by regular polygons under a unified framework. Without assuming convexity of the tiles or polyhedrality of the underlying graph, our proof is independent of the Johnson-Zalgaller classification of solids with regular faces (1967), which took over 200 pages. We apply a blend of trigonometric, algebraic and combinatorial tools of independent interest.
title Tiling the Sphere with Regular Polygons
topic Combinatorics
Metric Geometry
Rings and Algebras
05B45, 52C20, 51M20, 52B10, 51M10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05577