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Geometry and topology
The volume of a spherical antiprism with $S_{2n}$ symmetry
N. Abrosimovabc, B. Vuongbc a Sobolev Institute of Mathematics,
4, Koptyuga ave.,
Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
b Regional Scientific and Educational Mathematical Center,
Tomsk State University,
36, Lenina ave.,
Tomsk, 634050, Russia
c Novosibirsk State University, 1, Pirogova str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Abstract:
We consider a spherical antiprism. It is a convex polyhedron with $2n$ vertices in the spherical space $\mathbb{S}^3$. This polyhedron has a group of symmetries $S_{2n}$ generated by a mirror-rotational symmetry of order $2n$, i.e. rotation to the angle $\pi/n$ followed by a reflection. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of such polyhedron in $\mathbb{S}^3$. 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.
Keywords:
spherical antiprism, spherical volume, symmetry group $S_{2n}$, rotation followed by reflection, spherical isosceles trapezoid.
Received October 17, 2021, published November 9, 2021
Citation:
N. Abrosimov, B. Vuong, “The volume of a spherical antiprism with $S_{2n}$ symmetry”, Sib. Èlektron. Mat. Izv., 18:2 (2021), 1165–1179
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