On angles whose squared trigonometric functions are rational

DOI10.1007/PL00009463MaRDI QIDQ1807607zbMATH OpenDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Charles Radin, L. Sadun, J. H. Conway

Publication date 4 January 2001

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9812019

zbMATH Keywords

equidecomposibility of polyhedrageodetic angles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20)

Abstract: We consider the rational linear relations between real numbers whose squared trigonometric functions have rational values, angles we call ``geodetic. We construct a convenient basis for the vector space over Q generated by these angles. Geodetic angles and rational linear combinations of geodetic angles appear naturally in Euclidean geometry; for illustration we apply our results to equidecomposability of polyhedra.

Review text

The authors consider what they call pure geodetic angles, i.e., angles for which the squared trigonometric functions assume rational (or infinite) values. The term mixed geodetic angle is to mean a linear combination of pure geodetic angles with rational coefficients. Clearly, the mixed geodetic angles form a vector space over the rational numbers. An explicit basis of this space is given. These results are applied to the problem of equidecomposibility of polyhedra.

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