Smoothing 3-dimensional polyhedral spaces

DOI10.3934/ERA.2015.22.12MaRDI QIDQ256348zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anton Petrunin, Vladimir S. Matveev, Nina Lebedeva, Vsevolod Shevchishin

Publication date 9 March 2016

Published in Electronic Research Announcements in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0307

zbMATH Keywords

nonnegative curvaturepolyhedral spaceRicci flowsmoothing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70)

Abstract: We show that 3-dimensional polyhedral manifolds with nonnegative curvature in the sense of Alexandrov can be approximated by nonnegatively curved 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds.

Review text

Celebrated theorems by A. D. Aleksandrov and Yu. G. Reshetnyak imply that the metric of any general (possibly non-regular) convex surface in \(\mathbb{R} ^{3}\) can be approximated by a sequence of \(2\)-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with controlled integral curvatures. The authors study the problem of approximation of a \(3\)-dimensional polyhedral manifold of curvature \(\geq0\) in the sense of A. D. Aleksandrov by Riemannian manifolds of non-negative curvature. The main theorem states that given a compact \(3\)-dimensional polyhedral manifold \(P\) with non-negative Aleksandrov's curvature, there is a Ricci flow \(L^{t}\) (on a \(3\)-dimensional manifold) converging to \(P\) as \(t\rightarrow0^+\) such that the sectional curvature of \(L^{t}\) is non-negative for every sufficiently small positive \(t\).

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