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Triangulating metric surfaces

Metric Geometry 2022-06-13 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove that any length metric space homeomorphic to a surface may be decomposed into non-overlapping convex triangles of arbitrarily small diameter. This generalizes a previous result of Alexandrov--Zalgaller for surfaces of bounded curvature.

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@article{arxiv.2102.06667,
  title  = {Triangulating metric surfaces},
  author = {Paul Creutz and Matthew Romney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.06667},
  year   = {2022}
}

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24 pages, 10 figures

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