An example of a flexible polyhedron with nonconstant volume in the spherical space (Q1356592)

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An example of a flexible polyhedron with nonconstant volume in the spherical space
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    An example of a flexible polyhedron with nonconstant volume in the spherical space (English)
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    9 June 1997
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    The recently established Bellows Conjecture asserts that each oriented flexible polyhedron in \(\mathbb{E}^3\) conserves its volume during a flex. It is also known that each flexible polyhedron in \(\mathbb{E}^3\) conserves its mean curvature during a flex. In this paper the author constructs a flexible polyhedron in an open half-sphere \(\mathbb{S}^3_+\) which conserves neither volume nor mean curvature during a flex. The polyhedron is a modification of a polyhedron constructed from four spherical digons in \(\mathbb{S}^3\).
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    Bellows conjecture
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    flexible polyhedron
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    half-sphere
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    spherical digons
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