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Question: Which Euclidean tetrahedra are scissor congruent to cubes?

Consider a Euclidean tetrahedron $T$ in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with edge lengths $l_1,\ldots, l_6$ and dihedral angles $\alpha_1,\ldots, \alpha_6.$ According to Sydler's theorem this is equivalent to vanishing of the Dehn invariant $$ D(T)=\sum l_i \otimes \alpha_i \in \mathbb{R}\otimes \mathbb{R}/2\pi \mathbb{Z}. $$ Denote by $r(T)$ the dimension of the $\mathbb{Q}-$span $\langle \alpha_1,\ldots,\alpha_6, \pi \rangle.$ It is easy to see that $1 \leq r(T)\leq 6.$

A list of partial results:

  1. If $r(T)=1$ then all angles of $T$ are rational multiples of $\pi,$ such tetrahedra were classified by Coxeter (this is explained here).

  2. Some examples of $1-$dimensional families of tetrahedra with $r(T)=2,3$ are presented here.

  3. A similar question about right-angled pyramid appeared on MOF recently and was beautifully solved. It is easy to see that such pyramid is
    scissor congruent to a centrally symmetric Schläfli orthoscheme.

It might be simpler to restrict to a certain family of examples, like Schläfli orthoschemes.

Simpler questions:

  1. What examples of Euclidean tetrahedra scissor congruent to cubes are known?

  2. What is the biggest possible dimension of an algebraic family of tetrahedra scissor congruent to cubes?

  3. Which tetrahedra are known not to be scissor congruent to cubes?

  4. Can a partial answer be obtained for certain values of $r(T)?$

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  • $\begingroup$ There's a guy in my department who knows all about the tetrahedrons; I might ask him. $\endgroup$
    – user145307
    Commented Sep 4, 2019 at 12:50
  • $\begingroup$ Oh, who is that? $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 4, 2019 at 12:56
  • $\begingroup$ Imagine someone who you could not surprise with any fact about tetrahedrons --- that is the guy. Possibly you already know him but for my own anonymity reasons I will demur to name him. $\endgroup$
    – user145307
    Commented Sep 4, 2019 at 14:51
  • $\begingroup$ Maybe, I can suggest a bet? If I tell a fact about tetrahedron, which will surprise your colleague, you will tell their name:) $\endgroup$ Commented Sep 4, 2019 at 16:13
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    $\begingroup$ You have a bet! I should say that classes do not begin for several weeks so you have to give me a month. If this fact is unknown to my colleague, then you will get an email from him personally. If not, then you owe me a coffee, which I am allowed to claim if we get a chance to meet in person and I reveal my identity. (Or, if you prefer, you can send me $0.00035162733$ of a bitcoin and I can buy one for myself.) $\endgroup$
    – user145307
    Commented Sep 4, 2019 at 17:52

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