Branched coverings, triangulations, and 3-manifolds.
Infinitesimal rigidity of smooth convex surfaces through the second derivative of the Hilbert-Einstein functional
The paper is centered around a new proof of the infinitesimal rigidity of smooth closed surfaces with everywhere positive Gauss curvature. We use a reformulation that replaces deformation of an embedding by deformation of the metric inside the body bounded by the surface. The proof is obtained by studying derivatives of the Hilbert-Einstein functional with boundary term. This approach is in a sense dual to proving Gauss infinitesimal rigidity, that is, rigidity with respect to...
Variational properties of the discrete Hilbert-Einstein functional
Alexandrov’s theorem, weighted Delaunay triangulations, and mixed volumes
We present a constructive proof of Alexandrov’s theorem on the existence of a convex polytope with a given metric on the boundary. The polytope is obtained by deforming certain generalized convex polytopes with the given boundary. We study the space of generalized convex polytopes and discover a connection with weighted Delaunay triangulations of polyhedral surfaces. The existence of the deformation follows from the non-degeneracy of the Hessian of the total scalar curvature of generalized convex...
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