Polyhedral characterization of reversible hinged dissections

DOI10.1007/S00373-019-02041-2MaRDI QIDQ2308491zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jin Akiyama, Erik D. Demaine, Stefan Langerman

Publication date 3 April 2020

Published in Graphs and Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01172

zbMATH Keywords

Haberdasher's puzzlepolyhedral characterizationreversibilityreversible hinged dissectionrotational equidecomposability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10)

Abstract: We prove that two polygons $A$ and $B$ have a reversible hinged dissection (a chain hinged dissection that reverses inside and outside boundaries when folding between $A$ and $B$) if and only if $A$ and $B$ are two noncrossing nets of a common polyhedron. Furthermore, monotone reversible hinged dissections (where all hinges rotate in the same direction when changing from $A$ to $B$) correspond exactly to noncrossing nets of a common convex polyhedron. By envelope/parcel magic, it becomes easy to design many hinged dissections.

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