Deformation of a class of dihedral spherical \(f\)-tilings (Q506219)

Deformations of isometric foldings of the euclidean plane into the standard folding were described in the PhD dissertation of the first author in 1989. Folding tilings are related to isometric foldings between smooth connected Riemannian manifolds. A spherical folding tiling is an edge-to-edge decomposition of the sphere by geodesic polygons such that all vertices are of even valency and both sums of alternating angles, around any vertex, are \(\pi\). A deformation of a dihedral spherical \(f\)-tiling into the standard one is a continuous map which preserves the folding conditions. The authors turn to a class of dihedral \(f\)-tilings (by non-congruent isosceles triangles) and show how to deform tilings of this class into the standard \(f\)-tiling. These results are regarded by the authors as a step towards answering the following question: is any spherical \(f\)-tiling deformable into the standard spherical \(f\)-tiling?