Deformations of period lattices of flexible polyhedral surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00454-014-9575-8MaRDI QIDQ2249478zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. A. Gaifullin, S. A. Gaifullin

Publication date 1 July 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0240

zbMATH Keywords

flexible polyhedraplaces of fieldspolyhedral surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces) (52A15) Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70)

Abstract: In the end of the 19th century Bricard discovered a phenomenon of flexible polyhedra, that is, polyhedra with rigid faces and hinges at edges that admit non-trivial flexes. One of the most important results in this field is a theorem of Sabitov asserting that the volume of a flexible polyhedron is constant during the flexion. In this paper we study flexible polyhedral surfaces in the 3-space two-periodic with respect to translations by two non-colinear vectors that can vary continuously during the flexion. The main result is that the period lattice of a flexible two-periodic surface homeomorphic to a plane cannot have two degrees of freedom.

Review text

The paper is devoted to study flexibility properties of polyhedral surfaces in \(\mathbb{R}^3\). Let \(S\) be a doube-periodic polyhedral surface that is homeomorphic to a plane. It is proved that the family of flexions of \(S\) preserving double-periodicity can not have two degrees of freedom. More precisely, the set \(G(S)\) of all matrices that appears as Gram matrices of period lattices for flexions of \(S\) contains a one-dimensional real affine algebraic variety. A similar result is also proved for polyhedral surfaces that are not necessarily embedded in \(\mathbb{R}^3\).

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