From spaces of polygons to spaces of polyhedra following Bavard, Ghys and Thurston (Q648493)

\textit{C. Bavard} and \textit{É. Ghys} [Geom. Dedicata 43, No. 2, 207--224 (1992; Zbl 0758.52001)], following Thurston's work, pointed out that spaces of convex Euclidean polygons with fixed angles are isometric to truncated orthoschemes (a certain class of hyperbolic polyhedra). In the first part of this paper, the author first obtains this result by using the theory of mixed volumes and the Alexandrov-Fenchel theorem, then notes that the list of 75 Coxeter orthoschemes in [\textit{H.-C. Im Hof}, Bull. Soc. Math. Belg., Sér. A 42, No. 3, 523--545 (1990; Zbl 0790.20059)] is incomplete, as it misses Tumarkin's polyhedron, introduced in [\textit{P. Tumarkin}, Electron. J. Comb. 14, No. 1, Research Paper R69, 36 p.\ (2007; Zbl 1168.51311)], and then wonders whether even with the addition of this polyhedron Im Hof's list actually becomes complete. In the second part, the gluing of hyperbolic orthoschemes gives rise to hyperbolic cone-manifolds, and the connection with the real hyperbolization of the space of configurations of weighted points on a circle is mentioned. Configurations of weighted points on the sphere, local parametrization of spaces of polyhedra using a complex mixed area in the spirit of Thurston lead to Mostow's complex hyperbolic orbifolds in part three, and in part four it is noticed that the spaces of polygons embed isometrically into spaces of polyhedra locally as real forms.