Counterexamples to the Modified Bellows Conjecture from exotic flexible cross-polytopes
Counterexamples to the Modified Bellows Conjecture from exotic flexible cross-polytopes
Let , and consider exotic flexible cross-polytopes in the sphere . 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 for all . 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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