Continuous flattening of the 2-dimensional skeleton of the square faces in a hypercube (Q2308503)

In this paper, the authors look at the flat foldability onto its faces of an \(n\)-hypercube, for \(n\geq 4\). The \(3\)-dimensional case had been dealt with in [the authors, Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 7033, 108--121 (2011; Zbl 1349.51010)]. The main theorem states that, if \(C_n\) is an \(n\)-dimensional hypercube and if \(S\) denotes the set of all square faces in \(C_n\), then \(S\) is continuously flat foldable onto any of its square face \(F\) such that the faces in \(S\) parallel to \(F\) are rigid, that is, they have no creases during the motion. This result is extended to a wider class of polytopes, the so-called \textit{extended hypercubes}, whose vertices are \((\pm l_1, \pm l_2, \ldots, \pm l_n)\), where \(l_i\) (\(1 \leq i \leq n\)) are positive numbers and \(n \geq 3\).