Rational Angle Conjecture for maximal volume ideal polyhedra

Let T\mathcal{T} be a realizable triangulation of the sphere, and consider the volume-maximizing ideal polyhedron with combinatorial type T\mathcal{T}. Rational Angle Conjecture. All of its dihedral angles have the form

pπq\frac{p\pi}{q}

for integers pp and qq. The optimization problem has no built-in preference for rational angles, and the phenomenon has been verified for the globally maximal configurations with n=4,,12n=4,\ldots,12, but remains unproved for every realizable triangulation.

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Igor Rivin, “Maximal Volume Ideal Polyhedra and the Arithmetic Angle Phenomenon”, arXiv:2512.10087 (2025).

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