Dihedral angles of convex polyhedra (Q1972313)

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Dihedral angles of convex polyhedra
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    Dihedral angles of convex polyhedra (English)
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    13 December 2000
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    Let \(P\) be a compact convex polyhedron in hyperbolic 3-space \(H^3.\) It is classical to ask: Is \(P\) determined, among convex polyhedra, by its combinatorics and its dihedral angles? The author shows that some similar or related questions have negative answers. There exist pairs of non-congruent convex space-like polyhedra in the de Sitter space \(S_1^3\) with the same edge lengths or with the same dihedral angles. The same holds for convex polyhedra in \(S^3\subset\mathbb R^4.\) The examples are built from a well-known one-parameter family of polyhedra in \(\mathbb R^3\) with the same edge lengths, through a transformation discovered by Pogorelov for \(H^3\) and \(S^3.\)
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    compact convex polyhedron
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    de Sitter space \(S_1^3\)
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    combinatorics
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    dihedral angles
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    edge lengths
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    non-congruence
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    infinitesimal deformation
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