The Modified Bellows Conjecture for flexible spherical polyhedra
The Modified Bellows Conjecture for flexible spherical polyhedra
Let be a flexible polyhedron in the sphere , where . Replacing a vertex by its antipode means replacing that vertex of with its antipodal point in . Modified Bellows Conjecture. Some vertices can be replaced by their antipodes so that the oriented volume of the resulting flexible polyhedron remains constant during the flexion. This conjecture is a spherical analogue of the Bellows Conjecture, which asserts constancy of oriented volume during flexion. It is refuted by exotic flexible cross-polytopes in for all , while the source notes that it holds for the previously constructed counterexamples to the usual Bellows Conjecture.
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Primary source
Alexander A. Gaifullin, “Exotic spherical flexible octahedra and counterexamples to the Modified Bellows Conjecture”, arXiv:2503.09582 (2026).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1501.06198.
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