The volume of the Lambert cube in spherical space (Q736224)

The so-called Lambert cube \(Q(\alpha,\beta,\gamma)\) is a combinatorial cube with dihedral angles \(\alpha,\beta,\gamma\) at three non-coplanar edges and with right angles at all other edges. The Lambert cube can be realized in hyperbolic space for \(\alpha,\beta,\gamma\in(0,\pi/2)\) and its volume is given in terms of the Lobachevskii function \(\Lambda(x)=-\int_0^x\log|2\sin t|\,dt\). In the case of the spherical space, the realization of the Lambert cube is feasible for \(\alpha,\beta,\gamma\in(\pi/2,\pi)\). In this paper the authors show that the volume of \(Q(\alpha,\beta,\gamma)\) is given by \[ V(Q(\alpha,\beta,\gamma))=\frac{1}{4}\left[\delta(\alpha,\theta)+\delta(\beta,\theta) +\delta(\gamma,\theta)-2\delta\left(\frac{\pi}{2},\theta\right)-\delta(0,\theta)\right], \] where \[ \delta(\alpha,\theta)=\int_0^{\pi/2}\frac{\log(1-\cos 2\alpha\cos 2\tau)}{\cos 2\tau}\,d\tau \] and \(\theta\in(\pi/2,\pi)\) is a parameter defined in terms of the tangents of \(\alpha,\beta,\gamma\). The above expression for the volume is analogous to the one obtained for the hyperbolic space, where the function \(\delta(\alpha,\theta)\) is replaced by the hyperbolic analog \(\Delta(\alpha,\theta)=\Lambda(\alpha+\theta)-\Lambda(\alpha-\theta)\).