Supplemental material to the article "Partitions of the triangles of the cross polytope into surfaces''

Abstract

We present a constructive proof, that there exists a decomposition of the 2-skeleton of the k-dimensional cross polytope \beta^k into closed surfaces of genus \leq 1, each with a transitive automorphism group given by the vertex transitive Z_{2k}-action on \beta^k. Furthermore we show, that for each k \equiv 1,5(6) the 2-skeleton of the (k-1)-simplex is a union of highly symmetric tori and M\"obius strips.