Hecke Groups, Dessins d'Enfants and the Archimedean Solids

Grothendieck's dessins d'enfants arise with ever-increasing frequency in many areas of 21st century mathematical physics. In this paper, we review the connections between dessins and the theory of Hecke groups. Focussing on the restricted class of highly symmetric dessins corresponding to...

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Main Authors: Yang-Hui eHe, James eRead
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphy.2015.00091/full