Vertex-Minimal Paper Tori
Abstract
A paper torus is an embedded polyhedral torus that is isometric to a flat torus in the intrinsic sense. We prove that there does not exist a paper torus with 7 vertices, and that there does exist a paper torus with 8 vertices. This settles the question of the minimum number of vertices needed for a paper torus.
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