Spherical tetrahedra with rational volume, and spherical Pythagorean triples

DOI10.1090/MCOM/3496zbMATH Open1440.51001arXiv1811.06598OpenAlexW2995589062WikidataQ114094324 ScholiaQ114094324MaRDI QIDQ4960085FDOQ4960085

A. A. Kolpakov, Sinai Robins

Publication date: 8 April 2020

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study spherical tetrahedra with rational dihedral angles and rational volumes. Such tetrahedra occur in the Rational Simplex Conjecture by Cheeger and Simons, and we supply vast families, discovered by computational efforts, of positive examples that confirm this conjecture. As a by-product, we also obtain a classification of all spherical Pythagorean triples, previously found by Smith.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06598

zbMATH Keywords

spherical geometrytrigonometric Diophantine equationsrational spherical tetrahedra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25)

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Cited In (1)

• Spherical Triangles of Area π and Isosceles Tetrahedra

Uses Software

• SageMath
• SymPy

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