An analytical approach to the rational simplex problem

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Authors Victor Alexandrov

Publication date 30 June 2014

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.7464

zbMATH Keywords

dihedral angleHilbert's third problemspherical simplexspherical space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities and extremum problems in real or complex geometry (51M16) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25)

Abstract: In 1973, J. Cheeger and J. Simons raised the following question that still remains open and is known as the Rational Simplex Problem: Given a geodesic simplex in the spherical 3-space so that all of its interior dihedral angles are rational multiples of $pi$, is it true that its volume is a rational multiple of the volume of the 3-sphere? We propose an analytical approach to the Rational Simplex Problem by deriving a function $f(t)$, defined as an integral of an elementary function, such that if there is a rational $t$, close enough to zero, such that the value $f(t)$ is an irrational number then the answer to the Rational Simplex Problem is negative.

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