2021
DOI: 10.5802/crmath.132
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Combinatorics of Bricard’s octahedra

Abstract: We reprove the classification of motions of an octahedron-obtained by Bricard at the beginning of the XX century-by means of combinatorial objects satisfying some elementary rules. The explanations of these rules rely on the use of a well-known creation of modern algebraic geometry, the moduli space of stable rational curves with marked points, for the description of configurations of graphs on the sphere. Once one accepts the objects and the rules, the classification becomes elementary (though not trivial) an… Show more

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“…The first statement of this kind appeared, to our knowledge, in [15] concerning flexible octahedra (see Figure 1). In a previous work [9] we re-prove this statement in the case of flexible octahedra by means of symbolic computation. There, however, our method provides a finer control on which edges take the positive sign, and which the negative sign.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 66%
“…The first statement of this kind appeared, to our knowledge, in [15] concerning flexible octahedra (see Figure 1). In a previous work [9] we re-prove this statement in the case of flexible octahedra by means of symbolic computation. There, however, our method provides a finer control on which edges take the positive sign, and which the negative sign.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 66%
“…The simplicity of the object under investigation (an octahedron has only six vertices! ), in combination with the nontrivial nature of the result (both in terms of proof and the description of objects) prompted other researchers to find new ways to 'reproduce' Bricard's results and interpret them; we mention the works by Bennett [2], Lebesgue [3], Stachel [4] and the very recent work [5]. In [6] Bricard's octahedra arose as a special case of a general result for spaces of arbitrary dimension.…”
Section: § 1 Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%