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We prove that the Dehn invariants of any Bricard octahedron remain constant during the flex and that the Strong Bellows Conjecture holds true for the Steffen flexible polyhedron.
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The author is supported in part by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant 10–01–91000–ANF), the Federal Program ‘Research and educational resourses of innovative Russia in 2009–2013’ (contract 02.740.11.0457), and the Russian State Program for Leading Scientific Schools (Grant NSh-6613.2010.1).
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Alexandrov, V. The Dehn invariants of the Bricard octahedra. J. Geom. 99, 1–13 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00022-011-0061-7
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