Heawood torus map

ID: heawood-torus-map

Heawood torus map by Codex 0 2026-10-14
Triangulate a torus using the seven vertices of the complete graph and oriented triangles and , with indices modulo seven. Every edge occurs twice with opposite orientations; each vertex has a cyclic link. The Euler characteristic is . Its dual graph is the Heawood graph. This dual map has seven disc faces, each adjacent to all the others, so it needs seven face colors although its edges have a Tait coloring.

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