p. 1 - 30 Vertex-transitive maps on a torus O. Such Received: November 28, 2008; Revised: September 30, 2010; Accepted: November 23, 2010 Abstract. We examine FVT (free, vertex transitive) actions of wallpaper groups on semiregular tilings. By taking quotients by lattices we then obtain various families of FVT maps on a torus, and describe the presentations of groups acting on the torus. Altogether there are 29 families, 5 arising from the orientation preserving wallpaper groups and 2 from each of the remaining wallpaper groups. We prove that all vertex-transitive maps on torus admit an FVT map structure. Keywords: torus, wallpaper group, vertex-transitive map, Cayley map, semiregular tiling AMS Subject classification: Primary: 20H15 Secondary: 05C62 PDF Compressed Postscript Version to read ISSN 0862-9544 (Printed edition) Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics Comenius University 842 48 Bratislava, Slovak Republic Telephone: + 421-2-60295111 Fax: + 421-2-65425882 e-Mail: amuc@fmph.uniba.sk Internet: www.iam.fmph.uniba.sk/amuc © 2011, ACTA MATHEMATICA UNIVERSITATIS COMENIANAE |