On isometric embeddings of prisms

DOI10.4213/SM9934EMaRDI QIDQ6569579zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nikolay P. Dolbilin, Mikhail Shtogrin

Publication date 9 July 2024

Published in Sbornik: Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4213/SM9934E

zbMATH Keywords

\( \beta \)-formatpiecewise linear isometric embeddingprismprismatoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10)

Review text

If we stack two octahedra we get a nonconvex polyhedron with fourteen triangular faces. A paper model of the surface of this polyhedron may be refolded (creasing along different lines) into a right prism that has (up to orthogonal translation) the same end-caps. Less obviously, a polyhedron can be refolded along \textit{curved} creases to produce isometrically-equivalent surfaces made up of a finite number of smooth components: the packaging industry exploits this to make curvilinear cardboard boxes.\N\NThe authors show that a right prism can be refolded isometrically into a piecewise-smooth surface that shares, up to orthogonal translation, the original end-caps, but has arbitrarily small height -- a sort of ``accordion collapse.

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• Isometric immersions of a cone and a cylinder
• Pogorelov's problem on isometric transformations of a cylindrical surface
• Special isometric transformations of the surfaces of the Platonic solids

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