Spherical tetrahedra with rational volume, and spherical Pythagorean triples

DOI10.1090/MCOM/3496MaRDI QIDQ4960085zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. A. Kolpakov, Sinai Robins

Publication date 8 April 2020

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

rational spherical tetrahedraspherical geometrytrigonometric Diophantine equations

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)

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.

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• SageMath
• SymPy

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