Dihedral Angles of 4-Ball Tetrahedra

Publication Date

1-1-2021

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal for Geometry and Graphics

Volume

25

Issue

2

First Page

197

Last Page

204

Abstract

A tetrahedron is a 4-ball tetrahedron if there are four externally tangent spheres centered at the vertices of the tetrahedron. It is known that a tetrahedron being a 4-ball tetrahedron is equivalent to (1) three pairs of the sum of opposing edge lengths are the same, and to (2) there is a sphere tangent to each edge of the tetrahedron. We will prove that a tetrahedron is a 4-ball tetrahedron if, and only if three pairs of the sums of opposing dihedral angles are the same.

Keywords

Four-ball tetrahedron, balloon tetrahedron, edge-additive tetrahedron, edge-tangent sphere, circumscriptable tetrahedron, edge-incentric tetrahedron, dihedral-angle-additive tetrahedron

Department

Mathematics and Statistics

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