Simplices with fixed volumes of codimension 2 faces in a continuous deformation
Metric Geometry
2025-01-22 v3 Combinatorics
Abstract
For any -dimensional simplex in the Euclidean space with , it is asked that if a continuous deformation preserves the volumes of all the codimension 2 faces, then is it necessarily a \emph{rigid} motion. While the question remains open and the general belief is that the answer is affirmative, for all , we provide counterexamples to a variant of the question where is replaced by a pseudo-Euclidean space for some unspecified .
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@article{arxiv.2307.15817,
title = {Simplices with fixed volumes of codimension 2 faces in a continuous deformation},
author = {Lizhao Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15817},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
18 pages, 3 figures. Added counterexample for $n=5$ in $\mathbb{R}^{p,5-p}$ (for some unspecified $p$) with fixed areas of all 2-faces