A universal triangulation for flat tori (Q6145679)

The paper constructs a triangulation of the torus that is universal with respect to isometric simplicial embeddings into the 3-space, in the following sense. Theorem. For any real \(a,b>0\) denote by \(T_{a,b}\) the torus (as metric space) obtained by identifying opposite sides of the \(a\times b\)-rectangle. There is a simplicial complex whose body is homeomorphic to the 2-dimensional torus, which has 2434 triangles, and which for any real \(a,b>0\) admits an embedding in the 3-space, that is linear on every simplex, and whose image is isometric to \(T_{a,b}\). This result continues research of Yu. Burago, V. Zalgaller, T. Tsuboi, P. Arnoux, S. Lelièvre, A. Málaga, and others, as explained in the introduction. The proof contains both interesting ideas and technical calculations involving complex numbers.