Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics Seminar

Victor AlexandrovSobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk
Continuous deformations of polyhedra that do not alter the dihedral angles

Monday, September 19, 2016 - 2:30pm
Malott 206

We prove that, both in Lobachevskij and spherical 3-spaces, there exist nonconvex compact boundary-free polyhedral surfaces without selfintersections which admit nontrivial continuous deformations preserving all dihedral angles and study properties of such polyhedral surfaces. In particular, we prove that (1) the volume of the domain, bounded by such a polyhedral surface, is necessarily constant during such a deformation; (2) for some families of polyhedral surfaces, the surface area, the total mean curvature, and the Gauss curvature of some vertices are nonconstant during deformations that preserve the dihedral angles; (3) in the both spaces, there exist tilings that possess nontrivial deformations preserving the dihedral angles of every tile in the course of deformation.