Generalized Minkowski Theorem for Tetrahedra in ${\rm dS}^3$ and ${\rm AdS}^3$
Abstract
We formulate and prove a constant-curvature, holonomy-valued Lorentzian analogue of Minkowski theorem for generalized tetrahedra in the constant-curvature Lorentzian spaces and . Four non-trivial based holonomies, or equivalently spin lifts, determine intrinsic face normals, a dihedral Gram matrix , and oriented triple products of intrinsic face normals. Under closure, nondegeneracy, and the outward convex branch condition, these data reconstruct a unique strictly convex tetrahedron up to ambient isometry. The sign of selects the de Sitter or anti-de Sitter model, and the prescribed holonomies are exactly the based Levi-Civita face holonomies of the reconstructed tetrahedron. The extrinsic face normals also define a polar-dual projective tetrahedron. In particular, the all-null AdS sector gives ideal dual tetrahedra, and the all-timelike AdS sector gives hyperideal dual tetrahedra. In the all-spacelike sector, changing to real form recovers the reconstruction theorem for Euclidean spherical and hyperbolic tetrahedra.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.26410,
title = {Generalized Minkowski Theorem for Tetrahedra in ${\rm dS}^3$ and ${\rm AdS}^3$},
author = {Hongguang Liu and Qiaoyin Pan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.26410},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
39 pages + appendix, 3 figures