Minkowski decomposition conjecture for flexible polytopes

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Let P⊂RdP\subset\mathbb{R}^d be a flexible polytope, meaning that it admits a continuous deformation preserving its combinatorial type and edge lengths that is not a continuous isometry. Minkowski decomposition conjecture. There is a representation

P=Q1+⋯+QnP=Q_1+\cdots+Q_n

as a Minkowski sum of rigid polytopes QiQ_i, such that every flex of PP is obtained by continuously reorienting some of the QiQ_i. The source presents this as a proposed structural description of flexible polytopes; it notes that only polygons are known as elementarily flexible examples, but gives no resolution of the conjecture.

References

Primary source

Martin Winter, “Rigidity, Tensegrity and Reconstruction of Polytopes under Metric Constraints”, arXiv:2302.14194 (2024).

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