The volume of a spherical antiprism
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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2021
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2110.12265
- Bibcode:
- 2021arXiv211012265A
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Metric Geometry;
- 52B15;
- 51M20;
- 51M25;
- 51M10
- E-Print:
- arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1807.08297