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Platonic Solid

A Platonic solid is a convex polyhedron whose faces are regular -gons, whose isometry group acts transitively on its faces, and whose face-centre stabilisers are dihedral groups.

Definition 10.1

A convex polyhedron is a Platonic solid if

  • every face of is a regular -gon for some ,

  • acts transitively on the faces.

  • if is the midpoint of a face, then

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