%0 Journal Article %T On Basmajian's identities, and other stories %A Igor Rivin %J Mathematics %D 2014 %I arXiv %X We give a different perspective on the (by now) classic Basmajian identity, and point out some related results, both in the setting of hyperbolic manifolds, and in the polyhedral setting \emph{without} any group acting. In the new version we give more geometric and combinatorial applications of the main ideas. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1583v2