On the Schlafli differential formula
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Publication:6470211
arXivmath/0001176MaRDI QIDQ6470211FDOQ6470211
Authors: Igor Rivin, Jean-Marc Schlenker 
Publication date: 29 January 2000
Abstract: he celebrated formula of Schlafli relates the variation of the dihedral angles of a smooth family of polyhedra in a space form and the variation of volume. We give a smooth analogue of this classical formula -- our result relates the variation of the volume bounded by a hypersurface moving in a general Einstein manifold and the integral of the variation of the mean curvature. The argument is direct, and the classical polyhedral result (as well as results for Lorenzian space forms) is an easy corollary. We extend it to variations of the metric in a Riemannian Einstein manifold with boundary. We apply our results to extend the classical Euclidean inequalities of Aleksandrov to other 3-dimensional constant curvature spaces. We also obtain rigidity results for Ricci-flat manifolds with umbilic boundaries and existence results for foliations of Einstein manifolds by hypersurfaces.
Inequalities and extremum problems involving convexity in convex geometry (52A40) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Spherical and hyperbolic convexity (52A55) Convex sets in (3) dimensions (including convex surfaces) (52A15) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)
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