Torus 3x4

A quite trivial example, but our layouting procedure stubbornly insisted in a crumpled version with self-intersections, so for the embedding we figured out some reasonable coordinates by brute force.

Figure 7.19. Torus 3x4

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vertices: 12
faces: 12
edges: 24
genus: 1

characteristic polynomial: (x - 4) (x - 2)2 (x - 1)2 x (x + 1)4 (x + 3)2

dual's characteristic polynomial: (since this graph is self-dual, see above)

chromatic number: 3

lattice group : (((C2 × ((C3 × C3) : C4)) : C2) : C2) : C2