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Generalized Minkowski Theorem for Tetrahedra in ${\rm dS}^3$ and ${\rm AdS}^3$

Mathematical Physics 2026-05-27 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We formulate and prove a constant-curvature, holonomy-valued Lorentzian analogue of Minkowski theorem for generalized tetrahedra in the constant-curvature Lorentzian spaces dS3{\rm dS}^3 and AdS3{\rm AdS}^3. Four non-trivial based SO+(1,2){\rm SO}^+(1,2) holonomies, or equivalently SL(2,R){\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{R}) spin lifts, determine intrinsic face normals, a dihedral Gram matrix GG, 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 detG\det G 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 SU(2){\rm SU}(2) real form recovers the reconstruction theorem for Euclidean spherical and hyperbolic tetrahedra.

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@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}
}

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39 pages + appendix, 3 figures