Order-5 square tiling

Order-5 square tiling

Poincaré disk model of the hyperbolic plane
TypeHyperbolic regular tiling
Vertex figure45
Schläfli symbol{4,5}
Wythoff symbol5 | 4 2
Coxeter diagram
Symmetry group[5,4], (*542)
DualOrder-4 pentagonal tiling
PropertiesVertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive

In geometry, the order-5 square tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of {4,5}.

Spherical Hyperbolic tilings

{2,5}

{3,5}

{4,5}

{5,5}

{6,5}

{7,5}

{8,5}
...
{,5}

This tiling is topologically related as a part of sequence of regular polyhedra and tilings with vertex figure (4n).

This hyperbolic tiling is related to a semiregular infinite skew polyhedron with the same vertex figure in Euclidean 3-space.

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