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Ghomi proved that every convex polyhedron could be stretched via an affine transformation so that it has an edge-unfolding to a net [Gho14]. A net is a simple planar polygon; in particular, it does not self-overlap. One can view his result…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Joseph O'Rourke

We consider the moduli space of bordered Riemann surfaces with boundary and marked points. Such spaces appear in open-closed string theory, particularly with respect to holomorphic curves with Lagrangian submanifolds. We consider a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-14 Satyan L. Devadoss , Timothy Heath , Cid Vipismakul

Let C be a simple, closed, directed curve on the surface of a convex polyhedron P. We identify several classes of curves C that "live on a cone," in the sense that C and a neighborhood to one side may be isometrically embedded on the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Joseph O'Rourke , Costin Vilcu

We introduce combinatorial types of arrangements of convex bodies, extending order types of point sets to arrangements of convex bodies, and study their realization spaces. Our main results witness a trade-off between the combinatorial…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Michael Gene Dobbins , Andreas Holmsen , Alfredo Hubard

For each strongly connected finite-dimensional (pure) simplicial complex we construct a finite group, the group of projectivities of the complex, which is a combinatorial but not a topological invariant. This group is studied for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Joswig

This article provides a geometric representation for the well-known isomorphism between the special orthogonal group of an isotropic quadratic space of dimension 3 and the group of projective transformations of a projective line. This…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Nicholas Phat Nguyen

All edge-to-edge tilings of the sphere by congruent regular triangles and congruent rhombi are classified as: (1) a $1$-parameter family of protosets each admitting a unique $(2a^3,3a^4)$-tiling like a triangular prism; (2) a $1$-parameter…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Qi Yuan , Erxiao Wang

We describe a new sequence of polytopes which characterize A_infinity maps from a topological monoid to an A_infinity space. Therefore each of these polytopes is a quotient of the corresponding multiplihedron. Later term(s) in our sequence…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2008-05-08 Stefan Forcey

We study hyperbolic polyhedral surfaces with faces isometric to regular hyperbolic polygons satisfying that the total angles at vertices are at least $2\pi.$ The combinatorial information of these surfaces is shown to be identified with…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Yohji Akama , Bobo Hua

We give a short proof of the contractibility of the space of geodesic triangulations with fixed combinatorial type of a convex polygon in the Euclidean plane. Moreover, for any $n>0$, we show that there exists a space of geodesic…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Yanwen Luo

Given a flag in each of the vertex-transitive tessellations of the Euclidean plane by regular polygons, we determine the flag stabilizer under the action of the automorphism group of a regular cover. In so doing we give a presentation of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-29 Gordon Williams , Daniel Pellicer

In this survey, we discuss volumetric and combinatorial results concerning (mostly finite) intersections or unions of balls (mostly of equal radii) in the $d$-dimensional real vector space, mostly equipped with the Euclidean norm. Our first…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Károly Bezdek , Zsolt Lángi , Márton Naszódi

The notions of convexity and convex polytopes are introduced in the setting of tropical geometry. Combinatorial types of tropical polytopes are shown to be in bijection with regular triangulations of products of two simplices. Applications…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mike Develin , Bernd Sturmfels

In this note we study the higher dimensional convex billiards satisfying the so-called Gutkin property. A convex hypersurface $S$ satisfies this property if any chord $[p,q]$ which forms angle $\delta$ with the tangent hyperplane at $p$ has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Michael Bialy

The $h$-polynomial of the barycentric subdivision of any $n$-dimensional cubical complex with nonnegative cubical $h$-vector is shown to have only real roots and to be interlaced by the Eulerian polynomial of type $B_n$. This result applies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-21 Christos A. Athanasiadis

A polyhedron is pointed if it contains at least one vertex. Every pointed polyhedron P in R^n can be described by an H-representation consisting of half spaces or equivalently by a V-representation consisting of the convex hull of a set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 David Avis

The spherical centroid body of a centrally-symmetric convex body in the Euclidean unit sphere is introduced. Two alternative definitions - one geometric, the other probabilistic in nature - are given and shown to lead to the same objects.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Florian Besau , Thomas Hack , Peter Pivovarov , Franz E. Schuster

This paper proves the following statement: If a convex body can form a three or fourfold translative tiling in the three-dimensional space, it must be a parallelohedron. In other words, it must be a parallelotope, a hexagonal prism, a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Mei Han , Kirati Sriamorn , Qi Yang , Chuanming Zong

In this note a definition of umbilic point at infinity is proposed, at least for surfaces that are homogeneous polynomial graphs over a plane in Euclidean 3-space. This is a stronger definition than that of Toponogov in his study of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Brendan Guilfoyle

We construct a sequence of convex polyhedra on n vertices with the property that, as n -> infinity, the fraction of its edge unfoldings that avoid overlap approaches 0, and so the fraction that overlap approaches 1. Nevertheless, each does…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-01-28 Alex Benton , Joseph O'Rourke