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A polyhedron is Rupert if it is possible to cut a hole in it and thread an identical polyhedron through the hole. It is known that all 5 Platonic solids, 10 of the 13 Archimedean solids, 9 of the 13 Catalan solids, and 82 of the 92 Johnson…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Albin Fredriksson

An unzipping of a polyhedron P is a cut-path through its vertices that unfolds P to a non-overlapping shape in the plane. It is an open problem to decide if every convex P has an unzipping. Here we show that there are nearly flat convex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Joseph O'Rourke

The purpose of this paper is to study the reflections of a convex body. In particular, we are interested in orthogonal reflections of its sections that can be extended to reflections of the whole body. For this reason, we need to study the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Jorge L. Arocha , Javier Bracho , Luis Montejano

We study oriented connected closed polyhedral surfaces with non-degenerate triangular faces in three-dimensional Euclidean space, calling them polyhedra for short. A polyhedron is called flexible if its spatial shape can be changed…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Victor Alexandrov

It is known that we can always 3-triangulate (i.e. divide into tetrahedra) convex polyhedra but not always non-convex ones. Polyhedra topologically equivalent to sphere with $p$ handles, shortly $p$-toroids, could not be convex. So, it is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Milica Stojanović

We construct some example of a closed nondegenerate nonflexible polyhedron $P$ in Euclidean 3-space that is the limit of a sequence of nondegenerate flexible polyhedra each of which is combinatorially equivalent to $P$. This implies that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Victor Alexandrov

The study of comparison theorems in geometry has a rich history. In this paper, we establish a comparison theorem for polyhedra in 3-manifolds with nonnegative scalar curvature, answering affirmatively a dihedral rigidity conjecture by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Chao Li

Given a set of radii measured from a fixed point, the existence of a convex configuration with respect to the set of distinct radii in the two-dimensional case is proved when radii are distinct or repeated at most four points. However, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Supanut Chaidee , Kokichi Sugihara

A convex body $R$ in $\mathbb R^d$ is called reduced if the minimal width $\Delta(R')$ of each convex body $R'\subset R$ different from $R$ is strictly smaller than the minimal width $\Delta(R)$ of $R$. In this article we construct a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Alexandr Polyanskii

In this note we examine the volume of the convex hull of two congruent copies of a convex body in Euclidean $n$-space, under some subsets of the isometry group of the space. We prove inequalities for this volume if the two bodies are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-19 Ákos G. Horváth , Z. Lángi

We review several results related to the characterization of polyhedra in hyperbolic 3-space. In particular we present Rivin's theorem that gives a characterization of compact convex hyperbolic polyhedra, and Hodgson's proof of the Adreev's…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2010-06-24 Javier Virto

In this note we show that a connected, closed and locally convex subset (with an extra assumption on the diameter with respect to the induced length metric if $\kappa>0$) of a $CAT(\kappa)$ space is convex.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-08 Carlos Ramos-Cuevas

A convex polyhedron, that is, a compact convex subset of $\mathbb{R}^3$ which is the intersection of finitely many closed half-spaces, can be rectified by taking the convex hull of the midpoints of the edges of the polyhedron. We derive…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Samuel Reid

The main motivation here is a question: whether any polyhedron which can be subdivided into convex pieces without adding a vertex, and which has the same vertices as a convex polyhedron, is infinitesimally rigid. We prove that it is indeed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Robert Connelly , Jean-Marc Schlenker

This paper concerns the characterisation of second order marginals for random sets in a discrete setting. Under the instance of unit covariances, this problem possesses a combinatorial symmetry, exploited jointly in the companion paper to…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Raphael Lachieze-Rey

This paper proves the following statement: {\it If a convex body can form a twofold translative tiling in $\mathbb{E}^3$, it must be a parallelohedron.} In other words, it must be a parallelotope, a hexagonal prism, a rhombic dodecahedron,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Mei Han , Qi Yang , Kirati Sriamorn , Chuanming Zong

Unfolding a convex polyhedron into a simple planar polygon is a well-studied problem. In this paper, we study the limits of unfoldability by studying nonconvex polyhedra with the same combinatorial structure as convex polyhedra. In…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marshall Bern , Erik D. Demaine , David Eppstein , Eric Kuo , Andrea Mantler , Jack Snoeyink

The associahedron is a convex polytope whose face poset is based on nonintersecting diagonals of a convex polygon. In this paper, given an arbitrary simple polygon P, we construct a polytopal complex analogous to the associahedron based on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Satyan L. Devadoss , Rahul Shah , Xuancheng Shao , Ezra Winston

In 1959, Klee proved that a convex body $K$ is a polyhedron if and only if all of its projections are polygons. In this paper, a new proof of this theorem is given for convex bodies in $\mathbb{R}^3$.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-06 John J. Zanazzi

We report a small advance on a question raised by Robertson, Schweitzer, and Wagon in [RSW02]. They constructed a genus-13 polyhedron built from bricks without corners, and asked whether every genus-0 such polyhedron must have a corner. A…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mirela Damian , Joseph O'Rourke