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Spherical Tetrahedron


A spherical tetrahedron is a three-dimensional simplex in spherical geometry. In the unit hypersphere S^3, it is bounded by four geodesic faces, each of which is a spherical triangle. Its six edge lengths and six dihedral angles are angular quantities, and its ambient space has constant curvature 1.

The volume of a spherical tetrahedron may be expressed in terms of either its edge lengths or its dihedral angles (Murakami 2012), and its infinitesimal variation satisfies the Schläfli differential formula. A spherical tetrahedron in this sense should not be confused with the Reuleaux tetrahedron, which is a Euclidean solid bounded by spherical patches.


See also

Hyperbolic Tetrahedron, Reuleaux Tetrahedron, Schläfli Differential Formula, Spherical Geometry, Spherical Triangle, Tetrahedron

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References

Murakami, J. "Volume Formulas for a Spherical Tetrahedron." Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 140, 3289-3295, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2012-11182-7.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Spherical Tetrahedron." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SphericalTetrahedron.html

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