Symmetric and self-dual spherical embeddings with all vertices of degrees 3, 4 and 5
Minisymposium: GRAPH IMBEDDINGS AND MAP SYMMETRIES
Content: We describe an approach to constructing spherical graph embeddings in which all vertices are of degrees 3, 4, and 5 and all faces are quadrangular, in terms of regions of expansion and contraction. Of particular interest is a useful "diagonal metric." We describe these constructions more explicitly for the cases when there are exactly two vertices of degree 5 and some requirement of cellular symmetry.