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Regge Transformation


A Regge transformation is one of three involutions on the six edge lengths or six dihedral angles of a labeled tetrahedron. List the coordinates in opposite-edge order as (x,y,a,b,c,d). The transformation fixing the first opposite pair is

 (x,y,a,b,c,d)|->(x,y,s-a,s-b,s-c,s-d),

where s=(a+b+c+d)/2. The other two transformations are obtained by choosing either of the other opposite-edge pairs to be fixed. Applied to the edge lengths of a tetrahedron, each transformation gives the edge lengths of a second tetrahedron related to the first by the Regge symmetry. On dihedral-angle data, the transformation preserves rational multiples of pi, so it maps rational tetrahedra to rational tetrahedra.


See also

Rational Tetrahedron, Regge Group, Regge Symmetry, Tetrahedron

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References

Akopyan, A. and Izmestiev, I. "The Regge symmetry, confocal conics, and the Schläfli formula." Bull. London Math. Soc. 51, 765-775, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.12276.Kedlaya, K. S.; Kolpakov, A.; Poonen, B.; and Rubinstein, M. "Space Vectors Forming Rational Angles." Nov. 28, 2020. https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14232.Regge, T. "Symmetry properties of Racah's coefficients." Nuovo Cim. 11, 116-117, 1959. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02724914.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Regge Transformation." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ReggeTransformation.html

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