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JOURNALS // Sibirskie Èlektronnye Matematicheskie Izvestiya [Siberian Electronic Mathematical Reports] // Archive

Sib. Èlektron. Mat. Izv., 2021 Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 1165–1179 (Mi semr1429)

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.

UDC: 514.132

MSC: 52B15, 51M20, 51M25, 51M10

Received October 17, 2021, published November 9, 2021

Language: English

DOI: 10.33048/semi.2021.18.088



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