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Ma-Schlenker c-Octahedra in the 2-Sphere

Differential Geometry 2016-07-05 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We present constructions inspired by the Ma-Schlenker example of~\cite{Ma:2012hl} that show the non-rigidity of spherical inversive distance circle packings. In contrast to the use in~\cite{Ma:2012hl} of an infinitesimally flexible Euclidean polyhedron, embeddings in de Sitter space, and Pogorelov maps, our elementary constructions use only the inversive geometry of the 22-sphere.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1607.00453,
  title  = {Ma-Schlenker c-Octahedra in the 2-Sphere},
  author = {John C. Bowers and Philip L. Bowers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00453},
  year   = {2016}
}
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