Geometric decompositions of surfaces with spherical metric and conical singularities

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAB047MaRDI QIDQ5083125zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guillaume Tahar

Publication date 21 June 2022

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03355

zbMATH Keywords

coreconical singularitiesgluinggeodesic arcsspherical polygonscompact Riemannian surfacehalf-spherical concave polygons

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10)

Abstract: We prove that any compact surface with constant positive curvature and conical singularities can be decomposed into irreducible components of standard shape, glued along geodesic arcs connecting conical singularities. This is a spherical analog of the geometric triangulations for flat surfaces with conical singularities. The irreducible components include not only spherical triangles but also other interesting spherical polygons. In particular, we present the class of extit{half-spherical concave polygons} that are spherical polygons without diagonals and that can be arbitrarily complicated. Finally, we introduce the notion of core as a geometric invariant in the settings of spherical surfaces. We use it to prove a reducibily result for spherical surfaces with a total conical angle at least $(10g-10+5n)2pi$.

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