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Edge colourings of a tetrahedron under rotations (12q6+8q2+3q4​)

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The twelve rotational symmetries of a tetrahedron act on its six edges. Their edge cycle patterns are six fixed edges for the identity, two three-cycles for each of eight rotational symmetries of order three, and two fixed edges plus two transpositions for each of three half-turns. Burnside's lemma therefore counts edge colourings with q labelled colours by (q6+8q2+3q4)/12.

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