The angle defect for odd-dimensional simplicial manifolds
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Publication:818698
DOI10.1007/S00454-005-1221-ZzbMATH Open1090.52010arXivmath/0310473OpenAlexW2594921714MaRDI QIDQ818698FDOQ818698
Authors: Ethan D. Bloch 
Publication date: 21 March 2006
Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In a 1967 paper, Banchoff stated that a certain type of polyhedral curvature, that applies to all finite polyhedra, was zero at all vertices of an odd-dimensional polyhedral manifold; one then obtains an elementary proof that odd-dimensional manifolds have zero Euler characteristic. In a previous paper, the author defined a different approach to curvature for arbitrary simplicial complexes, based upon a direct generalization of the angle defect. The generalized angle defect is not zero at the simplices of every odd-dimensional manifold. In this paper we use a sequence based upon the Bernoulli numbers to define a variant of the angle defect for finite simplicial complexes that still satisfies a Gauss-Bonnet type theorem, but is also zero at any simplex of an odd-dimensional simplicial complex K (of dimension at least 3), such that the Euler characteristic of the link of each i-simplex equals 2, where i is a non-negative even integer that is less than n. As a corollary, an elementary proof is given that any such simplicial complex has Euler characteristic zero.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310473
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