Inscribing a regular octahedron into polytopes (Q1759819)

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.