On combinatorial Gauss-Bonnet theorem for general Euclidean simplicial complexes

DOI10.1007/s11464-016-0575-2zbMath1353.51018OpenAlexW2512860696WikidataQ125743192 ScholiaQ125743192MaRDI QIDQ335557

Stephan Klaus

Publication date: 2 November 2016

Published in: Frontiers of Mathematics in China (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11464-016-0575-2

zbMATH Keywords

triangulationEuler characteristiccurvaturecombinatorial manifolddihedral angleEuclidean simplexEuler manifoldpseudo manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of complexes (57Q05) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Abstract complexes in algebraic topology (55U05) Triangulating (57R05)

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