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We study chiral polyhedra in 3-dimensional geometries (Euclidean, hyperbolic, and projective) in a unified manner. This extends to hyperbolic and projective spaces some structural results in the classification of chiral polyhedra in Euclidean 3-space given in 2005 by Schulte. Then, we describe a way to produce examples with helical faces based on a classic Petrie–Coxeter construction, yielding a new family in \(\mathbb {S}^3\) which is described exhaustively.
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The authors thank the financial support of projects PAPIIT-UNAM: IN-100518 and IN-109218. They are also grateful to the referees, whose suggestions improved the final version of this paper.
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Bracho, J., Hubard, I. & Pellicer, D. Chiral Polyhedra in 3-Dimensional Geometries and from a Petrie–Coxeter Construction. Discrete Comput Geom 66, 1025–1052 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-021-00317-0
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