On hyperbolic virtual polytopes and hyperbolic fans

DOI10.2478/S11533-006-0006-9MaRDI QIDQ2501228zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Panina

Publication date 4 September 2006

Published in Central European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607171

zbMATH Keywords

Alexandrov's conjecturehyperbolichérissonvirtual polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces) (52A15) Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70)

Abstract: We wish to draw attention to an interesting and promising interaction of two theories. On the one hand, it is the theory of extbf{pseudo-triangulations} which was useful for implicit solution of thecarpenter's rule problem and proved later to give a nice tool for graph embeddings. On the other hand, it is the theory of hyperbolic virtual polytopes which arose from an old uniqueness conjecture for convex bodies (A. D. Alexandrov's problem): suppose that a constant $C$ separates (non-strictly) everywhere the principal curvature radii of a smooth 3-dimensional convex body $K$. Then $K$ is necessarily a ball of radius $C$. The two key ideas are: Passing from planar pseudo-triangulations to spherical pseudo-tilings, we avoid non-poited vertices. Instead, we use pseudo-di-gons. A theorem on spherically embedded Laman-plus-one graphs is announced. The difficult problem of hyperbolic polytopes constructing can be reduced to finding spherically embedded graphs.

Review text

A.~D.~Alexandrov made the following conjecture. If \(K \subseteq {\mathbb R}^3\) is a smooth convex body such that there exists a constant \(C\) for which the principal radii of curvature \(R_1,R_2\) at every boundary point of \(K\) satisfy \(R_1 \leq C \leq R_2\), then \(K\) is a ball. However, \textit{Y.~Martinez-Maure} [C.\ R.\ Acad.\ Sci.\ Paris, Ser. 1, 332, 41--44 (2003; Zbl 1008.53002)] found a counter-example to the conjecture, and the present author [Adv.\ Geom. 5, 301--317 (2005; Zbl 1077.52003)] has found others. In this paper, the author describes more families of counter-examples.

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