Inscribing a regular octahedron into polytopes

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2012.09.004MaRDI QIDQ1759819zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arseniy Akopyan, Roman Karasev

Publication date 22 November 2012

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4428

zbMATH Keywords

inscribed polytopesspheric geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces) (52A15) Approximation by convex sets (52A27)

Abstract: We prove that any simple polytope (and some non-simple polytopes) in $mathbb{R}^3$ admits an inscribed regular octahedron.

Review text

A result of V. V. Makeev states that every smooth surface embedded into \(\mathbb{R}^3\) and homeomorphic to \(S^2\) admits an octahedron similar to a \(\mathbb{Z}_3\)-symmetric octahedron with all its vertices on the surface. By applying this result to smooth surfaces approximating a given polytope and analyzing the \(\mathbb{Z}_3\)-equivariant 1-homology class of such octahedra in the configuration space of all octahedra, the authors of the paper under review prove that any simple polytope (and some non-simple polytopes with some additional assumptions on its solid angles) in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) admits a regular octahedron inscribed into its boundary surface.

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