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[stoutfellow]

Sometime back, I mentioned in a post that there was one area of algebra which I did not get a grip on in grad school, something called character theory. My failure to master it resulted in my getting, for the only time in my life, a score of zero on a math test.

Working on G-gons has led me to the realization that this entire line of research, including the Taxonomy papers, is best understood as an application of (some fairly simple) character theory.

Forty years later, I'm finally getting it.