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On an Elementary Proof of Rivin's Characterization of Convex Ideal Hyperbolic Polyhedra by their Dihedral Angles

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In 1832, Jakob Steiner (Systematische Entwicklung der Abhängigkeit geometrischer Gestalten von einander, Reimer (Berlin)) asked for a characterization of those planar graphs which are combinatorially equivalent to polyhedra inscribed in the sphere. This question was answered in the 1990s by Igor Rivin (Ann. of Math. 143(1996), 51–70), as a byproduct of his classification of ideal polyhedra in hyperbolic 3-space. Rivin also proposed a more direct approach to these results in Rivin (Ann. of Math. 139 (1994), 553–580). In this paper, we prove a combinatorial result (Theorem 6) which enables one to complete the program of Rivin (Ann. Math. 139(1994), 553–580).

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Guéritaud, F. On an Elementary Proof of Rivin's Characterization of Convex Ideal Hyperbolic Polyhedra by their Dihedral Angles. Geometriae Dedicata 108, 111–124 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-004-3180-y

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