Riemannian simplices and triangulations

DOI10.1007/S10711-015-0069-5zbMATH Open1333.57036arXiv1406.3740OpenAlexW2244240907WikidataQ59426341 ScholiaQ59426341MaRDI QIDQ897067FDOQ897067

Authors: Ramsay Dyer, Gert Vegter, M. H. M. J. Wintraecken 

Publication date: 16 December 2015

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a natural intrinsic definition of geometric simplices in Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary dimension $n$, and exploit these simplices to obtain criteria for triangulating compact Riemannian manifolds. These geometric simplices are defined using Karcher means. Given a finite set of vertices in a convex set on the manifold, the point that minimises the weighted sum of squared distances to the vertices is the Karcher mean relative to the weights. Using barycentric coordinates as the weights, we obtain a smooth map from the standard Euclidean simplex to the manifold. A Riemannian simplex is defined as the image of this barycentric coordinate map. In this work we articulate criteria that guarantee that the barycentric coordinate map is a smooth embedding. If it is not, we say the Riemannian simplex is degenerate. Quality measures for the "thickness" or "fatness" of Euclidean simplices can be adapted to apply to these Riemannian simplices. For manifolds of dimension 2, the simplex is non-degenerate if it has a positive quality measure, as in the Euclidean case. However, when the dimension is greater than two, non-degeneracy can be guaranteed only when the quality exceeds a positive bound that depends on the size of the simplex and local bounds on the absolute values of the sectional curvatures of the manifold. An analysis of the geometry of non-degenerate Riemannian simplices leads to conditions which guarantee that a simplicial complex is homeomorphic to the manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3740

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zbMATH Keywords

triangulationRiemannian manifoldbarycentric coordinatesRiemannian centre of massKarcher meansRiemannian simplicessampling condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of complexes (57Q05) Triangulating (57R05)

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