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The statement of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem brings up an unexpected form of reflexivity (major concept of philosophy of mathematics), so that geometry contemplates itself in it. It is therefore the revolutionary and multifaceted concept of…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Joel Merker , Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz

We recall how the Gauss-Bonnet theorem can be interpreted as a finite dimen- sional index theorem. We describe the construction given in hep-th/0512293 of a function that can be interpreted as a gravitational effective action on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Albert Ko , Martin Rocek

Geometry and topology are fundamental to modern condensed matter physics, but their precise connection in quantum systems remains incompletely understood. Here, we develop an analytical scheme for calculating the curvature of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Shin-Ming Huang

In this paper, we solve the longstanding Gaussian curvature conjecture of a minimal graph $S$ over the unit disk. The conjecture asserts that for any minimal graph above the unit disk, the Gaussian curvature at the point directly above the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-10 David Kalaj , Petar Melentijevic

In 1963, K.P.Grotemeyer proved an interesting variant of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem. Let M be an oriented closed surface in the Euclidean space R^3 with Euler characteristic \chi(M), Gauss curvature G and unit normal vector field n.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-07-13 Eric L. Grinberg , Li Haizhong

We introduce a notion of curvature on finite, combinatorial graphs. It can be easily computed by solving a linear system of equations. We show that graphs with curvature bounded below by $K>0$ have diameter bounded by $\mbox{diam}(G) \leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Stefan Steinerberger

A theorem of Grove and Searle directly establishes that positive curvature 2d manifolds M with effective circular symmetry group of dimension 8 or less have positive Euler characteristic X(M): the fixed point set N consists of even…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Oliver Knill

We show that the $p$-group complex of a finite group $G$ is homotopy equivalent to a wedge of spheres of dimension at most $n$ if $G$ contains a self-centralising normal subgroup $H$ which is isomorphic to a group of Lie type and Lie rank…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Kevin Iván Piterman

Lott-Sturm-Villani theory of curvature on geodesic spaces has been extended to discrete graph spaces by C. L{\'e}onard by replacing W2-Wasserstein geodesics by Schr{\"o}odinger bridges in the definition of entropic curvature [23, 25, 24].…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Paul-Marie Samson

The Gauss-Bonnet Formula is a significant achievement in 19th century differential geometry for the case of surfaces and the 20th century cumulative work of H. Hopf, W. Fenchel, C. B. Allendoerfer, A. Weil and S.S. Chern for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Marc Troyanov

We adopt a measure-theoretic perspective on the Riemannian approximation scheme proving a sub-Riemannian Gauss-Bonnet theorem for surfaces in 3D contact manifolds. We show that the zero-order term in the limit is a singular measure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Davide Barilari , Eugenio Bellini , Andrea Pinamonti

The combination of words ``discrete curvature'' is only an apparent contradiction. In this survey we describe curvature notions associated with polygons, polyhedral surfaces, and with abstract polyhedral manifolds. Several theorems about…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Ivan Izmestiev

We illustrate connections between differential geometry on finite simple graphs G=(V,E) and Riemannian manifolds (M,g). The link is that curvature can be defined integral geometrically as an expectation in a probability space of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Oliver Knill

We investigate criteria for circle packing(CP) types of disk triangulation graphs embedded into simply connected domains in $ \mathbb{C}$. In particular, by studying combinatorial curvature and the combinatorial Gauss-Bonnet theorem…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Byung-Geun Oh

We define a new notion of total curvature, called net total curvature, for finite graphs embedded in Rn, and investigate its properties. Two guiding principles are given by Milnor's way of measuring the local crookedness of a Jordan curve…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-13 Robert Gulliver , Sumio Yamada

Recently, the author and Melentijevi\'c resolved the longstanding Gaussian curvature problem by proving the sharp inequality \[ |\mathcal{K}| < c_0 = \frac{\pi^2}{2} \] for minimal graphs over the unit disk, evaluated at the point of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-26 David Kalaj

The Evasiveness conjecture have been proved for properties of graphs on a prime-power number of vertices and the six vertices case. The ten vertices case is still unsolved. In this paper we study the size of the automorphism group of a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Andres Angel , Jerson Borja

In this paper, we study a natural discretization of the smooth Gaussian curvature on surfaces, which is defined as the quotient of the angle defect and the area of a geodesic disk at a vertex of a polyhedral surface. It is proved that each…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

Many applications of geometry modeling and computer graphics necessite accurate curvature estimations of curves on the plane or on manifolds. In this paper, we define the notion of the discrete geodesic curvature of a geodesic polygon on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Aziz Ikemakhen , Mohamed Bellaihou

Twin-width is a width parameter introduced by Bonnet, Kim, Thomass\'e and Watrigant [FOCS'20, JACM'22], which has many structural and algorithmic applications. We prove that the twin-width of every graph embeddable in a surface of Euler…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Daniel Kráľ , Kristýna Pekárková , Kenny Štorgel