Counterexamples to the Modified Bellows Conjecture from exotic flexible cross-polytopes

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Let n≥4n\ge 4, and consider exotic flexible cross-polytopes in the sphere Sn\mathbb{S}^n. These are flexible cross-polytopes whose dihedral-angle tangents have the exotic parametrizations described in the source. Counterexample claim. Exotic flexible cross-polytopes provide counterexamples to the Modified Bellows Conjecture in Sn\mathbb{S}^n for all n≥4n\ge 4. This claim gives the higher-dimensional counterexamples that refute the Modified Bellows Conjecture. The source explains that no geometric construction of these higher-dimensional exotic flexible cross-polytopes is known, and that proving the claim may require cumbersome calculations with elliptic functions.

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Alexander A. Gaifullin, “Exotic spherical flexible octahedra and counterexamples to the Modified Bellows Conjecture”, arXiv:2503.09582 (2026).

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