Generalization of Sabitov's theorem to polyhedra of arbitrary dimensions

DOI10.1007/S00454-014-9609-2zbMATH Open1314.52008arXiv1210.5408OpenAlexW2065249655MaRDI QIDQ464730FDOQ464730

Authors: A. A. Gaifullin 

Publication date: 29 October 2014

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 1996 Sabitov proved that the volume of an arbitrary simplicial polyhedron P in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space $R^3$ satisfies a monic (with respect to V) polynomial relation F(V,l)=0, where l denotes the set of the squares of edge lengths of P. In 2011 the author proved the same assertion for polyhedra in $R^4$. In this paper, we prove that the same result is true in arbitrary dimension $nge3$. Moreover, we show that this is true not only for simplicial polyhedra, but for all polyhedra with triangular 2-faces. As a corollary, we obtain the proof in arbitrary dimension of the well-known Bellows Conjecture posed by Connelly in 1978. This conjecture claims that the volume of any flexible polyhedron is constant. Moreover, we obtain the following stronger result. If $P_t$, $tin[0,1]$, is a continuous deformation of a polyhedron such that the combinatorial type of $P_t$ does not change and every 2-face of $P_t$ remains congruent to the corresponding face of $P_0$, then the volume of $P_t$ is constant. We also obtain non-trivial estimates for the oriented volumes of complex simplicial polyhedra in $C^n$ from their orthogonal edge lengths.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5408

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zbMATH Keywords

flexible polyhedrona place of fieldBellows conjectureSabitov polynomialsimplicial collapse

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Length, area, volume and convex sets (aspects of convex geometry) (52A38) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45)

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