Homology of Euclidean groups of motions made discrete and Euclidean scissors congruences (Q757913)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4194734
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    Homology of Euclidean groups of motions made discrete and Euclidean scissors congruences
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4194734

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      Homology of Euclidean groups of motions made discrete and Euclidean scissors congruences (English)
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      The authors consider the work of Dehn-Sydler-Jessen which shows that volume and Dehn invariants form a complete set of invariants for the scissors congruence problem in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. They give a proof of this result (consistent with their philosophy about scissors congruence problems) using only the homology theory of classical Lie groups made discrete. The dimension 4 version follows from that of dimension 3 by a result of Jessen. Whether the above set of invariants is complete in dimensions 5 and higher is unknown.
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      volume
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      Dehn invariants
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      scissors congruence
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      homology theory
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      classical Lie groups
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