Volumes of degenerating polyhedra -- on a conjecture of J. W. Milnor

DOI10.1007/S10711-007-9217-XMaRDI QIDQ2481648zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Rivin

Publication date 14 April 2008

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502543

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic spaceMilnorpolyhedronpolytopeSchläflisimplexSobolevvolume

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: In his paper "On the Schlafli differential equality", J. Milnor conjectured that the volume of n-dimensional hyperbolic and spherical simplices, as a function of the dihedral angles, extends continuously to the closure of the space of allowable angles. A proof of this has recently been given by F. Luo (see math.GT/0412208). In this paper we give a simple proof of this conjecture, prove much sharper regularity results, and then extend the method to apply to a large class of convex polytopes. The simplex argument works without change in dimensions greater than 3 (and for spherical simplices in all dimensions), so the bulk of this paper is concerned with the three-dimensional argument. The estimates relating the diameter of a polyhedron to the length of the systole of the polar polyhedron are of independent interest.

Review text

Milnor has conjectured that, as a function of the dihedral angles of spherical or hyperbolic \(n\)-simplices, the volume \(V_n\) extends continuously to the closure \(\overline{\mathbb A}\) of the space \(\mathbb A\) of allowable angles and, moreover, vanishes on \(a \in \partial{\mathbb A}\) exactly when \(a\) lies in the closure of the space of angles of Euclidean simplices. The first conjecture has been proved by \textit{F. Luo} [Commun. Contemp.\ Math. 8, No. 3, 411--431 (2006; Zbl 1112.52006)]. Here, the present author proves both conjectures, giving sharper regularity results and extending the method to all convex polytopes. In the special case of \(\mathbb H^3\) there is also a precise description of the boundary of the space of angles of general convex polyhedra. The proofs are all relatively straightforward.

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