special cases projective planes (generalized triangles, n = 3) and generalized quadrangles (n = 4). Many generalized polygons arise from groups of Lie type...
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geometries which they called near polygons. These structures generalise the notion of generalized polygon as every generalized 2n-gon is a near 2n-gon of a...
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geometric progression and let the sides be a, ar, ar2, ar3. Then the generalized polygon inequality requires that 0 < a < a r + a r 2 + a r 3 0 < a r < a...
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Incidence geometry (section Generalized polygons)
4-gon is a generalized quadrangle (possibly degenerate). Every finite generalized polygon except the projective planes is a near polygon. Any connected...
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Polygram (geometry) (redirect from Regular compound polygon)
In geometry, a generalized polygon can be called a polygram, and named specifically by its number of sides. All polygons are polygrams, but they can also...
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Concave polygon Constructible polygon Convex polygon Cyclic polygon Equiangular polygon Equilateral polygon Penrose tile Polyform Regular polygon Simple...
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Digon (category Polygons by the number of sides)
be viewed as a representation of a graph with two vertices, see "Generalized polygon". A regular digon has both angles equal and both sides equal and...
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around the polygon makes one full turn, so the sum of the exterior angles must be 360°. This argument can be generalized to concave simple polygons, if external...
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Fermat number (redirect from Generalized Fermat number)
current top 20 generalized Fermat primes and the current top 100 generalized Fermat primes. Constructible polygon: which regular polygons are constructible...
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vertices of a star polygon. They include the Petersen graph and generalize one of the ways of constructing the Petersen graph. The generalized Petersen graph...
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Fermat theorem on polygonal numbers" in the Annals of Mathematics, "Representation by Extended Polygonal Numbers and by Generalized Polygonal Numbers" and...
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Complex polytope (redirect from Van Oss polygon)
regular polygon, while there are no faces. 2D orthogonal projections of complex polygons 2{r}q Polygons of the form 2{4}q are called generalized orthoplexes...
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2 are precisely the generalized polygons, and a plethora of examples exist. (There are free constructions of infinite generalized n-gons for every n ≥...
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projective plane. Discrete space Finite space Generalized polygon Incidence geometry Linear space (geometry) Near polygon Partial geometry Polar space Laywine...
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Pyramid (geometry) (redirect from Polygonal pyramid)
In geometry, a pyramid is a polyhedron formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex. Each base edge and apex form a triangle, called...
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geometry, an equilateral polygon is a polygon which has all sides of the same length. Except in the triangle case, an equilateral polygon does not need to also...
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Apeirogon (redirect from Infinite polygon)
tiling Apeirogonal prism Apeirogonal antiprism Teragon, a fractal generalized polygon that also has infinitely many sides McMullen & Schulte (2002) provide...
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Cross-polytope (redirect from Generalized orthoplex)
{C} } ^{n}} . A p-generalized n-orthoplex has pn vertices. Generalized orthoplexes have regular simplexes (real) as facets. Generalized orthoplexes make...
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yielding the groups directly. In the rank-2 case spherical building are generalized n-gons, and in joint work with Richard Weiss he classified these when...
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Generalization (redirect from Generalized)
establishing a common relation between them. However, the parts cannot be generalized into a whole—until a common relation is established among all parts....
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Perimeter (redirect from Perimeter of the polygon)
} An equilateral polygon is a polygon which has all sides of the same length (for example, a rhombus is a 4-sided equilateral polygon). To calculate the...
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York: Dover, 1973. (sec 2.6 Petrie Polygons pp. 24–25, and Chapter 12, pp. 213–235, The generalized Petrie polygon ) Coxeter, H.S.M. (1974) Regular complex...
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polygon is a closed polygonal chain in Euclidean space. It is a figure similar to a polygon except its vertices are not all coplanar. While a polygon...
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directions in which a given simple polygon is monotone. It was generalized to report all ways to decompose a simple polygon into two monotone chains (possibly...
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Polar space (section Generalized quadrangles)
Buekenhout, Francis (2000), Prehistory and History of Polar Spaces and of Generalized Polygons (PDF) Buekenhout, Francis; Cohen, Arjeh M. (2013), Diagram Geometry:...
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Circumcenter of mass (category Polygons)
these operations has the same circumcenter of mass as the original polygon. The generalized Euler line makes other appearances in the theory of integrable...
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Pick's theorem (category Theorems about polygons)
has multiple proofs, and can be generalized to formulas for certain kinds of non-simple polygons. Suppose that a polygon has integer coordinates for all...
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Dodecagon (category Constructible polygons)
Things, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 20, Generalized Schaefli symbols, Types of symmetry of a polygon pp. 275–278) The Lighter Side of Mathematics:...
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Projective plane (section Generalized coordinates)
projective plane. Combinatorial design Difference set Incidence structure Generalized polygon Projective geometry Non-Desarguesian plane Smooth projective plane...
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Density (polytope) (redirect from Polygon density)
of a polygon is the number of times that the polygonal boundary winds around its center. For convex polygons, and more generally simple polygons (not...
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