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Eigenfunctions Seminar

Title: Tetrahedra with rational dihedral angles
Speaker: Kiran S. Kedlaya (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Date: 25 May 2023
Time: 3 – 5 pm (with a 15 minute break in between)
Venue: LH-1, Mathematics Department

We classify similarity classes of tetrahedra whose dihedral angles are all rational multiples of $\pi$ (when measured in radians), answering a question of Conway-Jones from 1976. In the process, we also classify collections of vectors in $\mathbb{R}^3$ whose pairwise angles are rational. The proof uses a mixture of theoretical arguments, exact computations in computer algebra, and floating-point numerical computations. (Joint with Alexander Kolpakov, Bjorn Poonen, and Michael Rubinstein.)


Contact: +91 (80) 2293 2711, +91 (80) 2293 2265 ;     E-mail: chair.math[at]iisc[dot]ac[dot]in
Last updated: 28 Mar 2024