English

Rigidity of bordered polyhedral surfaces

Geometric Topology 2023-08-17 v2

Abstract

This paper investigates the rigidity of bordered polyhedral surfaces. Using the variational principle, we show that bordered polyhedral surfaces are determined by boundary value and discrete curvatures on the interior edges. As a corollary, we reprove the classical result that two Euclidean cyclic polygons (or hyperbolic cyclic polygons) are congruent if the lengths of their sides are equal.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2205.03606,
  title  = {Rigidity of bordered polyhedral surfaces},
  author = {Te Ba and Shengyu Li and Yaping Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.03606},
  year   = {2023}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-24T11:10:08.129Z