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Order-3 apeirogonal tiling

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Order-3 apeirogonal tiling
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In geometry, the order-3 apeirogonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It is represented by the Schläfli symbol {∞,3}, having three regular apeirogons around each vertex. Each apeirogon is inscribed in a horocycle.

Order-3 apeirogonal tiling
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Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
TypeHyperbolic regular tiling
Vertex configuration3
Schläfli symbol{,3}
t{,}
t(,,)
Wythoff symbol3 | 2
2 |
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Coxeter diagram

Symmetry group[,3], (*32)
[,], (*2)
[(,,)], (*)
DualInfinite-order triangular tiling
PropertiesVertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive

The order-2 apeirogonal tiling represents an infinite dihedron in the Euclidean plane as {∞,2}.

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Each apeirogon face is circumscribed by a horocycle, which looks like a circle in a Poincaré disk model, internally tangent to the projective circle boundary.

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The edges of the tiling, shown in blue, form an order-3 Cayley tree.

Uniform colorings

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Like the Euclidean hexagonal tiling, there are 3 uniform colorings of the order-3 apeirogonal tiling, each from different reflective triangle group domains:

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Symmetry

The dual to this tiling represents the fundamental domains of [(∞,∞,∞)] (*∞∞∞) symmetry. There are 15 small index subgroups (7 unique) constructed from [(∞,∞,∞)] by mirror removal and alternation. Mirrors can be removed if its branch orders are all even, and cuts neighboring branch orders in half. Removing two mirrors leaves a half-order gyration point where the removed mirrors met. In these images fundamental domains are alternately colored black and white, and mirrors exist on the boundaries between colors. The symmetry can be doubled as ∞∞2 symmetry by adding a mirror bisecting the fundamental domain. Dividing a fundamental domain by 3 mirrors creates a ∞32 symmetry.

A larger subgroup is constructed [(∞,∞,∞*)], index 8, as (∞*∞) with gyration points removed, becomes (*∞).

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This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra with Schläfli symbol {n,3}.

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Functions on tilings

Functions on this tiling that have symmetry properties tied to it are called modular functions; the modular forms are a special case. This is visually evident in the visualizations of Klein's j-invariant on the Poincaré disk, as well as the Eisenstein series.

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