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On the global rigidity of sphere packings on 3-dimensional manifolds

Geometric Topology 2018-12-31 v4 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we prove the global rigidity of sphere packings on 3-dimensional manifolds. This is a 3-dimensional analogue of the rigidity theorem of Andreev-Thurston and was conjectured by Cooper and Rivin. We also prove a global rigidity result using a combinatorial scalar curvature introduced by Ge and the author.

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@article{arxiv.1611.08835,
  title  = {On the global rigidity of sphere packings on 3-dimensional manifolds},
  author = {Xu Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08835},
  year   = {2018}
}

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to appear in Journal of Differential Geometry