Minkowski decomposition conjecture for flexible polytopes
Minkowski decomposition conjecture for flexible polytopes
Let 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
as a Minkowski sum of rigid polytopes , such that every flex of is obtained by continuously reorienting some of the . 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.
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Primary source
Martin Winter, “Rigidity, Tensegrity and Reconstruction of Polytopes under Metric Constraints”, arXiv:2302.14194 (2024).
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