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Is a convex polyhedron determined by its edge lengths and angular defects?
Let's consider 3-dimensional convex polyhedra $P\subset\Bbb R^3$.
The angular defect at a vertex $v$ is $2\pi$ minus the sum of the interior angles of the incident faces at $v$.
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Is a ...
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Which polytopes can be folded to an edge?
While playing with bar-and-joint linkages, I noticed that the skeleton of a regular 3-dimensional cube can be folded to a single edge (this can be achieved by first flexing the cube to bring it to a ...
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Is the dodecahedron flexible (as a polytope with fixed edge-lengths)?
Consider the (regular) dodecahedron $D\subset\Bbb R^3$. I want to continuously deform it so that throughout the deformation
it stays a convex polytope,
it stays a combinatorial dodecahedron (i.e. its ...
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How to correctly state Cauchy's rigidity theorem?
Cauchy's rigidity theorem is often stated briefly as
Any two (convex, 3-dimensional) polyhedra with pairwise congruent faces are themselves congruent.
As a more formal generalization to general ...