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Apeirogonal hosohedron

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Apeirogonal hosohedron
Apeirogonal hosohedron
Type Regular tiling
Vertex configuration 2
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Face configuration V∞2
Schläfli symbol(s) {2,∞}
Wythoff symbol(s) ∞ | 2 2
Coxeter diagram(s)
Symmetry [∞,2], (*∞22)
Rotation symmetry [∞,2]+, (∞22)
Dual Order-2 apeirogonal tiling
Properties Vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive

In geometry, an apeirogonal hosohedron or infinite hosohedron[1] is a tiling of the plane consisting of two vertices at infinity. It may be considered an improper regular tiling of the Euclidean plane, with Schläfli symbol {2,∞}.

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The apeirogonal hosohedron is the arithmetic limit of the family of hosohedra {2,p}, as p tends to infinity, thereby turning the hosohedron into a Euclidean tiling. All the vertices have then receded to infinity and the digonal faces are no longer defined by closed circuits of finite edges.

Similarly to the uniform polyhedra and the uniform tilings, eight uniform tilings may be based from the regular apeirogonal tiling. The rectified and cantellated forms are duplicated, and as two times infinity is also infinity, the truncated and omnitruncated forms are also duplicated, therefore reducing the number of unique forms to four: the apeirogonal tiling, the apeirogonal hosohedron, the apeirogonal prism, and the apeirogonal antiprism.

Order-2 regular or uniform apeirogonal tilings
(∞ 2 2) Wythoff
symbol
Schläfli
symbol
Coxeter
diagram
Vertex
config.
Tiling image Tiling name
Parent 2 | ∞ 2 {∞,2} ∞.∞ Apeirogonal
dihedron
Truncated 2 2 | ∞ t{∞,2}
Rectified 2 | ∞ 2 r{∞,2}
Birectified
(dual)
∞ | 2 2 {2,∞} 2 Apeirogonal
hosohedron
Bitruncated 2 ∞ | 2 t{2,∞} 4.4.∞ Apeirogonal
prism
Cantellated ∞ 2 | 2 rr{∞,2}
Omnitruncated
(Cantitruncated)
∞ 2 2 | tr{∞,2} 4.4.∞
Snub | ∞ 2 2 sr{∞,2} 3.3.3.∞ Apeirogonal
antiprism

Notes

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  1. ^ Conway (2008), p. 263

References

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  • The Symmetries of Things 2008, John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5
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