The icosahedra of edge length 1

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2019.04.028MaRDI QIDQ2282979zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karl-Heinz Brakhage, Alice C. Niemeyer, Daniel Robertz, Ansgar Strzelczyk, Wilhelm Plesken

Publication date 27 December 2019

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.08278, http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/13825

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial geometryicosahedronrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

Abstract: Retaining the combinatorial Euclidean structure of a regular icosahedron, namely the 20 equiangular (planar) triangles, the 30 edges of length 1, and the 12 different vertices together with the incidence structure, we investigate variations of the regular icosahedron admitting self-intersections of faces. We determine all rigid equivalence classes of these icosahedra with non-trivial automorphism group and find one curve of flexible icosahedra. Visualisations and explicit data for this paper are available under http://algebra.data.rwth-aachen.de/Icosahedra/visualplusdata.html.

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• Magma
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• Janet

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