Continuous deformations of polyhedra that do not alter the dihedral angles

DOI10.1007/S10711-013-9884-8MaRDI QIDQ2452188zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Victor Alexandrov

Publication date 30 May 2014

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4676

zbMATH Keywords

tessellationhyperbolic spacedihedral angleflexible polyhedronspherical space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) General theory of distance geometry (51K05) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

Abstract: We prove that, both in the hyperbolic and spherical 3-spaces, there exist nonconvex compact boundary-free polyhedral surfaces without selfintersections which admit nontrivial continuous deformations preserving all dihedral angles and study properties of such polyhedral surfaces. In particular, we prove that the volume of the domain, bounded by such a polyhedral surface, is necessarily constant during such a deformation while, for some families of polyhedral surfaces, the surface area, the total mean curvature, and the Gauss curvature of some vertices are nonconstant during deformations that preserve the dihedral angles. Moreover, we prove that, in the both spaces, there exist tilings that possess nontrivial deformations preserving the dihedral angles of every tile in the course of deformation.

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