On weakly convex star-shaped polyhedra (Q1045111): Difference between revisions

The main result reads as follows: ``Let \(P\) be a weakly convex polyhedron, which is star-shaped with respect to one of its vertices. Then \(P\) is infinitesimally rigid.'' Here a polyhedron is (a) weakly convex if its vertices are the vertices of a convex polyhedron, (b) star-shaped with respect to \(v_0\) if the interior of \(P\) has a decomposition as the union of finitely many non-degenerate simplices, all containing \(v_0\) as one of their vertices, of disjoint interior, and such that the intersection of each with \(P\) is a face of both, and (c) infinitesimally rigid if any non-trivial first-order deformation induces a non-zero variation of the metric on one of its faces. The proof is based on a result of \textit{I.~Izmestiev} [Discrete Comput. Geom. 40, No. 4, 561--585 (2008; Zbl 1162.52004)], who gives a new proof of A. D.~Alexandrov's theorem on the existence and uniqueness of a polyhedral convex cap with a given induced metric, based on the concavity of a geometric function.