Planar polygons and hyperbolic polyhedra

DOI10.1007/BF00147868MaRDI QIDQ1199233zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christophe Bavard, Étienne Ghys

Publication date 16 January 1993

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00147868

zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean planehyperbolic Coxeter orthoschemeshyperbolic polyhedronhyperbolic spacespace of polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Spherical and hyperbolic convexity (52A55) Polytopes and polyhedra (52B99)

Review text

The authors consider the space of polygons in the Euclidean plane having fixed prescribed angles. These form a vector space on which the measurement of oriented area defines a quadratic form. In the case of convex polygons this construction is used to associate a convex polyhedron in a suitable hyperbolic space with the given space. The relations between the structure of this polyhedron and the geometry of the corresponding polygons are investigated. This interpretation is used for another proof of the existence of Im Hof's hyperbolic Coxeter orthoschemes [see \textit{H.-C. Im Hof}, Expo. Math. 3, 179-186 (1985; Zbl 0572.51012), and Bull. Soc. Math. Belg. Ser. A 42, No. 3, 523-545 (1990)].

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