A universal triangulation for flat tori

DOI10.1007/S00454-023-00598-7arXiv2203.05496MaRDI QIDQ6145679FDOQ6145679

Authors: Francis Lazarus, Florent Tallerie 

Publication date: 9 January 2024

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A result due to Burago and Zalgaller states that every orientable polyhedral surface, one that is obtained by gluing Euclidean polygons, has an isometric piecewise linear (PL) embedding into Euclidean space $mathbb{E}^3$. A flat torus, resulting from the identification of the opposite sides of a Euclidean parallelogram, is a simple example of polyhedral surface. In a first part, we adapt the proof of Burago and Zalgaller, which is partially constructive, to produce PL isometric embeddings of flat tori. In practice, the resulting embeddings have a huge number of vertices, moreover distinct for every flat torus. In a second part, based on another construction of Zalgaller and on recent works by Arnoux et al., we exhibit a universal triangulation with 5974 triangles which can be embedded linearly on each triangle in order to realize the metric of any flat torus.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05496

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zbMATH Keywords

isometric embeddingflat torusuniversal triangulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial complexity of geometric structures (52C45) Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology (57Q35) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

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