The Gauss-Bonnet formula of polytopal manifolds and the characterization of embedded graphs with nonnegative curvature

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09739-6zbMath1180.05037WikidataQ126020555 ScholiaQ126020555MaRDI QIDQ3625533

Beifang Chen

Publication date: 5 May 2009

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

infinite graphGauss-Bonnet formulafiniteness theoremnonnegative curvatureembedded graphcombinatorial curvaturediscrete curvatureEuler relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Structural characterization of families of graphs (05C75) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Generalized manifolds (57P99)

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