Title	Restricting symmetry (rather than breaking it)
Creator	Conder, Marston
Publisher	Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery
Date Issued	2018-09-21T09:04
Description	The symmetry of a discrete structure can easily be altered (or in the case of maps, destroyed) by changing just a small part of it. But there are other contexts where a large degree of symmetry is desirable without achieving the maximum possible symmetry, for example with maps and polytopes that are maximally symmetric by orientation-preserving automorphisms but are chiral (admitting no refections). In a similar vein, sometimes restricting the symmetry can help achieve things that are either impossible or difficult when full symmetry is assumed. I will outline a few recent discoveries that explain and illustrate these phenomena.
Extent	37.0
Subject	Mathematics; Combinatorics; Group theory and generalizations; Discrete mathematics
Type	Moving Image
File Format	video/mp4
Language	eng
Notes	Author affiliation: University of Auckland
Series	BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos (Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico))
Date Available	2019-03-21
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0377239
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/68999
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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