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In geometry, Schläfli orthoscheme is a type of simplex. They are defined by a sequence of edges that are mutually orthogonal. These were introduced by Ludwig Schläfli, who called them ''orthoschemes'' and studied their volume in the Euclidean, Lobachevsky and the spherical geometry. H.S.M. Coxeter later named them after Schläfli. J.-P. Sydler and Børge Jessen studied them extensively in connection with Hilbert's third problem. Orthoschemes, also called path-simplices in the applied mathematics literature, are a special case of a more general class of simplices studied by , and later rediscovered by . These simplices are the convex hulls of trees in which all edges are mutually perpendicular. In the orthoscheme, the underlying tree is a path. In three dimensions, an orthoscheme is also called a birectangular tetrahedron. == Properties == * All 2-faces are right triangles. * All facets of a ''d''-dimensional orthoscheme are (''d'' − 1)-dimensional orthoschemes. * The midpoint of the longest edge is the center of the circumscribed sphere. * The case when is a generalized Hill tetrahedron. * In 3- and 4-dimensional Euclidean space, every convex polytope is scissor congruent to an orthoscheme. * (H.S.M. Coxeter) Every orthoscheme in a three-dimensional space of constant curvature can be dissected into three orthoschemes. * (H.E. Debrunner) Every orthoscheme in a ''d''-dimensional space of constant curvature can be dissected into ''d'' + 1 orthoschemes. * Every hypercube in ''d''-dimensional space can be dissected into ''d''! congruent orthoschemes. * Every ''d''-dimensional box can be dissected into ''d''! (not necessarily congruent) orthoschemes. * In 3-dimensional hyperbolic and spherical spaces, the volume of orthoschemes can be expressed in terms of the Lobachevsky function, or in terms of dilogarithms, see e.g. . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Schläfli orthoscheme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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