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The volume of a spherical antiprism

Metric Geometry 2021-10-26 v1

Abstract

We consider a spherical antiprism. It is a convex polyhedron with 2n2n vertices in the spherical space S3\mathbb{S}^3. This polyhedron has a group of symmetries S2nS_{2n} generated by a mirror-rotational symmetry of order 2n2n, i.e. rotation to the angle π/n\pi/n followed by a reflection. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of such polyhedron in S3\mathbb{S}^3. Then we find relations between its dihedral angles and edge lengths in the form of cosine rules through a property of a spherical isosceles trapezoid. Finally, we obtain an explicit integral formula for the volume of a spherical antiprism in terms of the edge lengths.

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@article{arxiv.2110.12265,
  title  = {The volume of a spherical antiprism},
  author = {Nikolay Abrosimov and Bao Vuong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.12265},
  year   = {2021}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1807.08297