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Classification of flexible Kokotsakis polyhedra with quadrangular base

Metric Geometry 2014-11-04 v1 Complex Variables

Abstract

A Kokotsakis polyhedron with quadrangular base is a neighborhood of a quadrilateral in a quad surface. Generically, a Kokotsakis polyhedron is rigid. Up to now, several flexible classes were known, but a complete classification was missing. In the present paper, we provide such a classification. The analysis is based on the fact that the dihedral angles of a Kokotsakis polyhedron are related by an Euler-Chasles correspondence. It results in a diagram of elliptic curves covering complex projective planes. A polyhedron is flexible if and only if this diagram commutes.

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@article{arxiv.1411.0289,
  title  = {Classification of flexible Kokotsakis polyhedra with quadrangular base},
  author = {Ivan Izmestiev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.0289},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

76 pages, several diagrams and figures

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