Discrete conformal variations and scalar curvature on piecewise flat two- and three-dimensional manifolds (Q549092)

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Discrete conformal variations and scalar curvature on piecewise flat two- and three-dimensional manifolds
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    Discrete conformal variations and scalar curvature on piecewise flat two- and three-dimensional manifolds (English)
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    6 July 2011
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    The article is concerned with the geometry of low-dimensional piecewise flat manifolds, which are closed topological manifolds constructed by identifying the boundaries of Euclidean triangles or Euclidean tetrahedra, whose 1-simplices have specified lengths. They are discrete analogues of 2 and 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. The author defines the edge curvature, Ricci curvature, polyhedral scalar curvature, etc., as well as the conformal variation of piecewise flat manifolds via variation of angles. The author calculates the first and second variation of the Einstein-Hilbert-Regge functional, studies its convexity, and proves rigidity theorems analogous to those in the smooth case.
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    piecewise flat manifold
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    conformal variation
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    Einstein-Hilbert-Regger functional
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    rigidity
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