Homology of Euclidean groups of motions made discrete and Euclidean scissors congruences (Q757913)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4194734
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Homology of Euclidean groups of motions made discrete and Euclidean scissors congruences
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4194734

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    Homology of Euclidean groups of motions made discrete and Euclidean scissors congruences (English)
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    1990
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    The authors consider the work of Dehn-Sydler-Jessen which shows that volume and Dehn invariants form a complete set of invariants for the scissors congruence problem in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. They give a proof of this result (consistent with their philosophy about scissors congruence problems) using only the homology theory of classical Lie groups made discrete. The dimension 4 version follows from that of dimension 3 by a result of Jessen. Whether the above set of invariants is complete in dimensions 5 and higher is unknown.
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    volume
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    Dehn invariants
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    scissors congruence
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    homology theory
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    classical Lie groups
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