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An abstract polytope of rank n is said to be chiral if its automorphism group has two orbits on the flags, such that adjacent flags belong to distinct orbits. Examples of chiral polytopes have been difficult to find. A “mixing” construction lets us combine polytopes to build new regular and chiral polytopes. By using the chirality group of a polytope, we are able to give simple criteria for when the mix of two polytopes is chiral.
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Cunningham, G. Mixing chiral polytopes. J Algebr Comb 36, 263–277 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-011-0335-z
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