A necessary flexibility condition for a nondegenerate suspension in Lobachevsky 3-space

DOI10.1070/SM2013V204N08ABEH004336MaRDI QIDQ2863130zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors D. A. Slutskij

Publication date 21 November 2013

Published in Sbornik: Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2793

zbMATH Keywords

Connelly methodequator of a suspensionflexible polyhedronflexible suspensionhyperbolic space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

Abstract: We show that some combination of the lengths of all edges of the equator of a flexible suspension in Lobachevsky 3-space is equal to zero (each length is taken either positive or negative in this combination).

Review text

A suspension is a polyhedron in Euclidean or hyperbolic space whose vertices are \(v_0, v_1, v_2,\dots, v_{N+1}\), where \(v_1,v_2,\dots, v_N\) form a cycle of so-called equator vertices, and the polar vertices \(v_0\) and \(v_{N+1}\) are each adjacent to every equator vertex. The edges that connect equator vertices will be called equator edges. Such a polyhedron is said to be flexible if its spatial shape can be changed continuously by changing only its dihedral angles while keeping the corresponding faces congruent during the flex.NEWLINENEWLINEThe main result of the paper states that given a non-degenerate flexible suspension in hyperbolic 3-space there is an assignment of signs (\(+\) or \(-\)) to equator edges such that the sum of signed lengths of equator edges is zero. This is an analogue of \textit{R. Connelly}'s result [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 81, 566--569 (1975; Zbl 0315.50003)] for Euclidean suspensions.

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