Partitioning Euclidean Space.
We give an exposition of unpublished fragments of Gauss where he discovered (using a work of Jacobi) a remarkable connection between Napier pentagons on the sphere and Poncelet pentagons on the plane. As a corollary we find a parametrization in elliptic functions of the classical dilogarithm five-term relation.
Let be a Riemann surface. Let be the -dimensional hyperbolic space and let be its ideal boundary. In our context, a Plateau problem is a locally holomorphic mapping . If is a convex immersion, and if is its exterior normal vector field, we define the Gauss lifting, , of by . Let be the Gauss-Minkowski mapping. A solution to the Plateau problem is a convex immersion of constant Gaussian curvature equal to such that the Gauss lifting is complete and . In this paper, we show...