The analytic continuation of volume and the Bellows conjecture in Lobachevsky spaces

DOI10.1070/SM2015V206N11ABEH004505zbMATH Open1370.52068arXiv1504.02977WikidataQ123010422 ScholiaQ123010422MaRDI QIDQ2963671FDOQ2963671

Authors: A. A. Gaifullin 

Publication date: 21 February 2017

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

Abstract: A flexible polyhedron in an n-dimensional space of constant curvature, namely, in the Euclidean space, or in the Lobachevsky space, or in the sphere, is a polyhedron with rigid (n-1)-dimensional faces and hinges at (n-2)-dimensional faces. The Bellows conjecture claims that, for n greater than or equal to 3, the volume of any flexible polyhedron is constant during the flexion. The Bellows conjecture in Euclidean spaces was proved by Sabitov in dimension 3 (1996) and by the author in dimensions 4 and higher (2012). Counterexamples to the Bellows conjecture in open hemispheres were constructed by Alexandrov in dimension 3 (1997) and by the author in dimensions 4 and higher (2015). In this paper we prove the Bellows conjecture for bounded flexible polyhedra in odd-dimensional Lobachevsky spaces. The proof is based on the study of the analytic continuation of the volume of a simplex in the Lobachevsky space considered as a function of the hyperbolic cosines of its edge lengths.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.02977

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zbMATH Keywords

analytic continuationflexible polyhedronBellows conjectureLobachevsky space[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Schl%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDfli%27s+formula&go=Go Schl��fli's formula]

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

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