Infinitesimal rigidity of smooth convex surfaces through the second derivative of the Hilbert-Einstein functional

DOI10.4064/DM492-0-1zbMATH Open1286.53009arXiv1105.5067OpenAlexW2315508901MaRDI QIDQ2846558FDOQ2846558

Authors: Ivan Izmestiev 

Publication date: 5 September 2013

Published in: Dissertationes Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The paper is centered around a new proof of the infinitesimal rigidity of smooth closed surfaces with everywhere positive Gauss curvature. We use a reformulation that replaces deformation of an embedding by deformation of the metric inside the body bounded by the surface. The proof is obtained by studying derivatives of the Hilbert-Einstein functional with boundary term. This approach is in a sense dual to proving the Gauss infinitesimal rigidity, that is rigidity with respect to the Gauss curvature parametrized by the Gauss map, by studying derivatives of the volume bounded by the surface. We recall that Blaschke's classical proof of the infinitesimal rigidity is also related to the Gauss infinitesimal rigidity, but in a different way: while Blaschke uses Gauss rigidity of the same surface, we use the Gauss rigidity of the polar dual. In the spherical and in the hyperbolic-de Sitter space, there is a perfect duality between the Hilbert-Einstein functional and the volume, as well as between both kinds of rigidity. We also indicate directions for future research, including the infinitesimal rigidity of convex cores of hyperbolic 3--manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5067

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zbMATH Keywords

infinitesimal rigidityMinkowski theoremHilbert-Einstein functionalWeyl problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Rigidity results (53C24)

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