A necessary flexibility condition for a nondegenerate suspension in Lobachevsky 3-space (Q2863130)

A suspension is a polyhedron in Euclidean or hyperbolic space whose vertices are \(v_0, v_1, v_2,\dots, v_{N+1}\), where \(v_1,v_2,\dots, v_N\) form a cycle of so-called equator vertices, and the polar vertices \(v_0\) and \(v_{N+1}\) are each adjacent to every equator vertex. The edges that connect equator vertices will be called equator edges. Such a polyhedron is said to be flexible if its spatial shape can be changed continuously by changing only its dihedral angles while keeping the corresponding faces congruent during the flex.NEWLINENEWLINEThe main result of the paper states that given a non-degenerate flexible suspension in hyperbolic 3-space there is an assignment of signs (\(+\) or \(-\)) to equator edges such that the sum of signed lengths of equator edges is zero. This is an analogue of \textit{R. Connelly}'s result [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 81, 566--569 (1975; Zbl 0315.50003)] for Euclidean suspensions.