Areas of spherical polyhedral surfaces with regular faces

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Authors: Yohji Akama, Bobo Hua, Yanhui Su 

Publication date: 29 April 2018

Abstract: For a finite planar graph, it associates with some metric spaces, called (regular) spherical polyhedral surfaces, by replacing faces with regular spherical polygons in the unit sphere and gluing them edge-to-edge. We consider the class of planar graphs which admit spherical polyhedral surfaces with the curvature bounded below by 1 in the sense of Alexandrov, i.e. the total angle at each vertex is at most $2pi$. We classify all spherical tilings with regular spherical polygons, i.e. total angles at vertices are exactly $2pi$. We prove that for any graph in this class which does not admit a spherical tiling, the area of the associated spherical polyhedral surface with the curvature bounded below by 1 is at most $4pi-epsilo{n}_0$ for some $epsilo{n}_0>0$. That is, we obtain a definite gap between the area of such a surface and that of the unit sphere.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

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