Sabitov polynomials for volumes of polyhedra in four dimensions

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2013.11.005MaRDI QIDQ2445306zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. A. Gaifullin

Publication date 14 April 2014

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.6014

zbMATH Keywords

Cayley-Menger determinantflexible polyhedronplaceresultantsimplicial complexvolume

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solving polynomial systems; resultants (13P15) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11)

Abstract: In 1996 I.Kh. Sabitov proved that the volume of a simplicial polyhedron in a 3-dimensional Euclidean space is a root of certain polynomial with coefficients depending on the combinatorial type and on edge lengths of the polyhedron only. Moreover, the coefficients of this polynomial are polynomials in edge lengths of the polyhedron. This result implies that the volume of a simplicial polyhedron with fixed combinatorial type and edge lengths can take only finitely many values. In particular, this yields that the volume of a flexible polyhedron in a 3-dimensional Euclidean space is constant. Until now it has been unknown whether these results can be obtained in dimensions greater than 3. In this paper we prove that all these results hold for polyhedra in a 4-dimensional Euclidean space.

Review text

Let \(K\) be an abstract simplicial complex that triangulates a closed, oriented surface and \(P: K \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^3\) a (potentially degenerate) map that is linear on each face of \(K\). \textit{I. Kh. Sabitov} [Fundam. Prikl. Mat. 2, No. 4, 1235--1246 (1996; Zbl 0904.52002)] showed that there exists a monic polynomial \(Q(V,\ell) = V^N + a_1(\ell)V^{N-1} + a_2(\ell)V^{N-2}+\cdots+a_n(\ell)\) with the following properties 1. \(\ell\) denotes the set of variables \(\ell_{uv} = \ell_{vu}\) corresponding to the lengths of the edges of \(P\), 2. each coefficient \(a_j(\ell)\) is a rational polynomial in the set of variables \(\ell\), and 3. \(Q(V(P),\ell(P)) = 0\); that is, the volume of the polyhedron \(P\) is a root of the polynomial \(Q\). This paper extends the results of Sabitov to oriented \(3\)-manifolds and even to oriented \(3\)-dimensional pseudomanifolds. The main theorem in the present paper is the following result. Let \(K\) be an oriented \(3\)-dimensional pseudomanifold and \(P: K \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^4\) a map that is linear on each face of \(K\). Then there exists a monic polynomial whose coefficients are polynomial functions of the edge lengths of \(P\) with rational coefficients that has the generalized volume of \(P\) as a root.

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