The bellows conjecture for flexible polyhedra in Euclidean space

A flexor is a flexible polyhedron in R3\mathbb{R}^3, and a flexion is a continuous deformation preserving its combinatorial type and the shapes of its faces. The bellows conjecture. The volume of any flexor in R3\mathbb{R}^3 is constant during the flexion. The conjecture arose from the observation that the volumes of the first known flexible polyhedra remained constant during flexion; its higher-dimensional and non-Euclidean generalisations are stated separately in the source.

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Alexander A. Gaifullin, “Flexible Polyhedra and Their Volumes”, arXiv:1605.09316 (2016).

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