3.II.14F
Part IB, 2003
State and prove the Gauss-Bonnet formula for the area of a spherical triangle. Deduce a formula for the area of a spherical -gon with angles . For what range of values of does there exist a (convex) regular spherical -gon with angle ?
Let be a spherical triangle with angles and where are integers, and let be the group of isometries of the sphere generated by reflections in the three sides of . List the possible values of , and in each case calculate the order of the corresponding group . If , show how to construct a regular dodecahedron whose group of symmetries is .
[You may assume that the images of under the elements of form a tessellation of the sphere.]