Embedded flexible spherical cross-polytopes with nonconstant volumes

DOI10.1134/S0081543815010058zbMATH Open1322.52017arXiv1501.06198OpenAlexW2061293793MaRDI QIDQ492204FDOQ492204

Authors: A. A. Gaifullin 

Publication date: 20 August 2015

Published in: Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct examples of embedded flexible cross-polytopes in the spheres of all dimensions. These examples are interesting from two points of view. First, in dimensions 4 and higher, they are the first examples of embedded flexible polyhedra. Notice that, unlike in the spheres, in the Euclidean spaces and the Lobachevsky spaces of dimensions 4 and higher, still no example of an embedded flexible polyhedron is known. Second, we show that the volumes of the constructed flexible cross-polytopes are non-constant during the flexion. Hence these cross-polytopes give counterexamples to the Bellows Conjecture for spherical polyhedra. Earlier a counterexample to this conjecture was built only in dimension 3 (Alexandrov, 1997), and was not embedded. For flexible polyhedra in spheres we suggest a weakening of the Bellows Conjecture, which we call the Modified Bellows Conjecture. We show that this conjecture holds for all flexible cross-polytopes of the simplest type among which there are our counterexamples to the usual Bellows Conjecture. By the way, we obtain several geometric results on flexible cross-polytopes of the simplest type. In particular, we write relations on the volumes of their faces of codimensions 1 and 2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.06198

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zbMATH Keywords

volumesphereBellows Conjectureembedded flexible cross-polytopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

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