Tetrahedal Geometry from Areas

DOI10.1080/00029890.2020.1793636MaRDI QIDQ5124653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Louis Crane, D. N. Yetter

Publication date 30 September 2020

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.12224

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Length, area and volume in real or complex geometry (51M25) Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04)

Abstract: We solve a very classical problem motivated by considerations in quantum gravity: providing a description of the geometry of a Euclidean tetrahedron from the initial data of the areas of the faces and the areas of the medial parallelograms of Yetter or equivalently of the pseudofaces of McConnell. In particular, we derive expressions for the dihedral angles, face angles and (an) edge length, the remaining parts being derivable by symmetry or by identities in the classic 1902 compendium of results on tetrahedral geometry of Richardson. We also provide an alternative proof using (bi)vectors of the result of Yetter that four times the sum of the squared areas of the medial parallelograms is equal to the sum of the squared areas of the faces. The updated version corrects several errors and provides better historical context for the result.

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