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most citedCatalan Solids Derived From 3D-Root Systems and Quaternions

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cond-mat.other2026

Modified Mosseri-Sadoc tiles from

Rehab Al Raisi, Nazife Ozdes Koca, Mehmet Koca +1

A modified set of Mosseri-Sadoc (MS) tiles tessellating 3D Euclidean space with icosahedral symmetry is introduced. The new set of tiles are embedded in dodecahedron with a threefo…

math-ph2024

Affine subgroups of the affine Coxeter group with the same Coxeter number

Nazife Ozdes Koca, Mehmet Koca

Affine subgroups having the same Coxeter number with the affine Coxeter groups W(An), W(Dn), and W(En) are constructed by graph folding technique. The affine groups W(Cn) and W(Bn)…

math-ph2023

Affine Dihedral Subgroups of Higher Dimensional Cubic Lattices and Quasicrystallography

Nazife Ozdes Koca, Mehmet Koca, Ramazan Koc +1

Quasicrystals described as the projections of higher dimensional cubic lattices, and the particular affine extensions of the dihedral group of order , being the…

math.MG2020

Icosahedral Tiling with Dodecahedral Structures

Mehmet Koca, Ramazan Koc, Nazife Ozdes Koca +1

Icosahedron and dodecahedron can be dissected into tetrahedral tiles projected from 3D-facets of the Delone polytopes representing the deep and shallow holes of the root lattice D_…

math.MG2020★ 2 cited

Icosahedral Polyhedra from D6 lattice and Danzer's ABCK tiling

Abeer Al-Siyabi, Nazife Ozdes Koca, Mehmet Koca

It is well known that the point group of the root lattice D_6 admits the icosahedral group as a maximal subgroup. The generators of the icosahedral group H_3, its roots and weights…

math.MG2018★ 3 cited

Prototiles and Tilings from Voronoi and Delone cells of the Root Lattice A_n

Nazife Ozdes Koca, Abeer Al-Siyabi, Mehmet Koca +1

We exploit the fact that two-dimensional facets of the Voronoi and Delone cells of the root lattice A_n in n-dimensional space are the identical rhombuses and equilateral triangles…

physics.gen-ph2016★ 3 cited

SU(5) Grand Unified Theory, its Polytopes and 5-fold Symmetric Aperiodic Tiling

Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, Abeer Al Siyabi

We associate the lepton-quark families with the vertices of the 4D polytopes 5-cell and the rectified 5-cell derived from the SU(5) Coxeter-Dynkin diagram. The off-diagonal gauge b…

math-ph2016

4D Pyritohedral Symmetry with Quaternions, Related Polytopes and Lattices

Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, Amal Juma Hamood Al-Qanobi

We describe extension of the pyritohedral symmetry to 4-dimensional Euclidean space and present the group elements in terms of quaternions. It turns out that it is a maximal subgro…

math-ph2015

Quaternionic Representations of the Pyritohedral Group, Related Polyhedra and Lattices

Nazife Ozdes Koca, Mehmet Koca, Aida Al-Mukhaini +1

We construct the fcc (face centered cubic), bcc (body centered cubic) and sc (simple cubic) lattices as the root and the weight lattices of the affine Coxeter groups W(D3) and W(B3…

math-ph2013★ 4 cited

12-fold Quasicrystallography from affine F4, B6, and E6

Nazife O. Koca, Mehmet Koca, Ramazan Koc

One possible way to obtain the quasicrystallographic structures is the projections of the higher dimensional lattices into 2D or 3D subspaces. In this work we introduce a general t…

math-ph2012★ 8 cited

Affine Wa(A4), Quaternions, and Decagonal Quasicrystals

Mehmet Koca, Nazife O. Koca, Ramazan Koc

We introduce a technique of projection onto the Coxeter plane of an arbitrary higher dimensional lattice described by the affine Coxeter group. The Coxeter plane is determined by t…

math-ph2012★ 2 cited

Radii of the E8 Gosset Circles as the Mass Excitations in the Ising Model

Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca

The Zamolodchikov's conjecture implying the exceptional Lie group E8 seems to be validated by an experiment on the quantum phase transitions of the 1D Ising model carried out by th…

math-ph2012★ 1 cited

Quaterionic Construction of the W(F_4) Polytopes with Their Dual Polytopes and Branching under the Subgroups B(B_4) and W(B_3)*W(A_1)

Mehmet Koca, Mudhahir Al-Ajmi, Nazife Koca

4-dimensional polytopes and their dual polytopes have been constructed as the orbits of the Coxeter-Weyl group where the group elements and the vertices of the…

math-ph2011★ 2 cited

Branching of the W(H4) Polytopes and Their Dual Polytopes under the Coxeter Groups W(A4) and W(H3) Represented by Quaternions

Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, Mudhahir Al-Ajmi

4-dimensional H4 polytopes and their dual polytopes have been constructed as the orbits of the Coxeter-Weyl group W(H4) where the group elements and the vertices of the polytopes a…

math-ph2011★ 6 cited

Snub 24-Cell Derived from the Coxeter-Weyl Group W(D4)

Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, Muataz Al-Barwani

Snub 24-cell is the unique uniform chiral polytope in four dimensions consisting of 24 icosahedral and 120 tetrahedral cells. The vertices of the 4-dimensional semi-regular polytop…

math-ph2011★ 7 cited

4D-Polytopes and Their Dual Polytopes of the Coxeter Group Represented by Quaternions

Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, Mudhahir Al-Ajmi

4-dimensional polytopes and their dual polytopes have been constructed as the orbits of the Coxeter-Weyl group where the group elements and the vertices of the p…

math-ph2010

Chiral Polyhedra Derived From Coxeter Diagrams and Quaternions

Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, Muna Al-Shu'eili

There are two chiral Archimedean polyhedra, the snub cube and snub dodecahedron together with their duals the Catalan solids, pentagonal icositetrahedron and pentagonal hexacontahe…

math-ph2009★ 14 cited

Catalan Solids Derived From 3D-Root Systems and Quaternions

Mehmet Koca, Nazife Ozdes Koca, Ramazan Koc

Catalan Solids are the duals of the Archimedean solids, vertices of which can be obtained from the Coxeter-Dynkin diagrams A3, B3 and H3 whose simple roots can be represented by qu…

math-ph2009★ 4 cited

Grand Antiprism and Quaternions

Mehmet Koca, Mudhahir Al-Ajmi, Nazife Ozdes Koca

Vertices of the 4-dimensional semi-regular polytope, the \textit{grand antiprism} and its symmetry group of order 400 are represented in terms of quaternions with unit norm. It fol…

math-ph2009★ 5 cited

Quaternionic Representation of Snub 24-Cell and its Dual Polytope Derived From E_8 Root System

Mehmet Koca, Mudhahir Al-Ajmi, Nazife Ozdes Koca

Vertices of the 4-dimensional semi-regular polytope, \textit{snub 24-cell} and its symmetry group of order 576 are represented in terms of quaternions with unit n…

hep-th2005★ 5 cited

The Chevalley group G_{2}(2) of order 12096 and the octonionic root system of E_{7}

Mehmet Koca, Ramazan Koc, Nazife O. Koca

The octonionic root system of the exceptional Lie algebra E_8 has been constructed from the quaternionic roots of F_4 using the Cayley-Dickson doubling procedure where the roots of…