Triangular hebesphenorotunda

Summary

In geometry, the triangular hebesphenorotunda is a Johnson solid with 13 equilateral triangles, 3 squares, 3 regular pentagons, and 1 regular hexagon, making the total of its faces is 20.

Triangular hebesphenorotunda
TypeJohnson
J91J92J1
Faces13 triangles
3 squares
3 pentagons
1 hexagon
Edges36
Vertices18
Vertex configuration3(33.5)
6(3.4.3.5)
3(3.5.3.5)
2.3(32.4.6)
Symmetry groupC3v
Dual polyhedron-
Propertiesconvex, elementary
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3D model of a triangular hebesphenorotunda

Properties

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The triangular hebesphenorotunda is named by Johnson (1966), with the prefix hebespheno- referring to a blunt wedge-like complex formed by three adjacent lunes—a figure where two equilateral triangles are attached at the opposite sides of a square. The suffix (triangular) -rotunda refers to the complex of three equilateral triangles and three regular pentagons surrounding another equilateral triangle, which bears a structural resemblance to the pentagonal rotunda.[1] Therefore, the triangular hebesphenorotunda has 20 faces: 13 equilateral triangles, 3 squares, 3 regular pentagons, and 1 regular hexagon.[2] The faces are all regular polygons, categorizing the triangular hebesphenorotunda as the Johnson solid, enumerated the last one  .[3] It is elementary polyhedra, meaning that it cannot be separated by a plane into two small regular-faced polyhedra.[4]

The surface area of a triangular hebesphenorotunda of edge length   as:[2]   and its volume as:[2]  

Cartesian coordinates

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The triangular hebesphenorotunda with edge length   can be constructed by the union of the orbits of the Cartesian coordinates:   under the action of the group generated by rotation by 120° around the z-axis and the reflection about the yz-plane. Here,   denotes the golden ratio.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Johnson, N. W. (1966), "Convex polyhedra with regular faces", Canadian Journal of Mathematics, 18: 169–200, doi:10.4153/cjm-1966-021-8, MR 0185507, S2CID 122006114, Zbl 0132.14603.
  2. ^ a b c Berman, M. (1971), "Regular-faced convex polyhedra", Journal of the Franklin Institute, 291 (5): 329–352, doi:10.1016/0016-0032(71)90071-8, MR 0290245.
  3. ^ Francis, D. (August 2013), "Johnson solids & their acronyms", Word Ways, 46 (3): 177.
  4. ^ Cromwell, P. R. (1997), Polyhedra, Cambridge University Press, p. 86–87, 89, ISBN 978-0-521-66405-9.
  5. ^ Timofeenko, A. V. (2009), "The non-Platonic and non-Archimedean noncomposite polyhedra", Journal of Mathematical Science, 162 (5): 717, doi:10.1007/s10958-009-9655-0, S2CID 120114341.
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