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Parametrizing the realization space of a polyhedron by its edges

I alluded to this here, but at that point I hadn't really done enough work to know what I wanted to ask. Call a polyhedron "trihedral" if three faces meet at each vertex. Each of the F faces can be ...
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Furthest distance half the diameter?

Let $S$ be the surface of a convex body, polyhedral or smooth, embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. For a point $x \in S$, let $F(x)$ be the set of furthest points from $x$, measured by shortest paths on the ...
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Triangulations of convex surfaces

Let $M$ be a smooth closed positively curved surface in Euclidean 3-space, $T$ be a geodesic triangulation of $M$, and $E$ be the edge graph of the convex hull of vertices of $T$. It is easy to see ...
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Quantitative error control in Minkowski-Stein formula

Let $K\subseteq\mathbb R^d$ be a compact convex body with non-empty interior, and $E$ be a $(d-1)$-dimensional linear subspace of $\mathbb R^d$. Let $\theta\in\mathbb R^d$ be the unit vector such that ...
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Rigidity of convex polyhedrons in $\mathbb R^3$ with faces removed

Take a convex polyhedron $P$ in $\mathbb R^3$ and remove all the faces, i.e. leave only the edges. Call this graph $E$. Let us now try to continuously deform $E$ in $\mathbb R^3$ so that all the edges ...
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Convex caps with prescribed edges and curvature

Let $G$ be the edge graph of a convex subdivision of a convex polygon $P$ in the plane. I would like to construct a convex polyhedral cap $C$ (with zero boundary values) over $P$ whose edges project ...
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Isometric embedding a convex cap to render its boundary planar

I would like to know if there is a polyhedral analog to this beautiful theorem of Hong: Theorem 11.0.1. Any smooth positive disk $(\bar{D},g)$ with a positive geodesic curvature along $\partial ...
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Cut locus on a hypercube

Inspired by the question, "Shortest path connecting two opposite points on a cube": Q. What does the cut locus with respect to one corner of a hypercube in $\mathbb{R}^d$ look like? "The cut ...
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Differentiability of polytope shadow areas

Let $P$ be an opaque convex polyhedron containing the origin in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and let $S$ be an origin-centered sphere strictly containing $P$: $S \supset P$. For a point $x$ on $S$, let $\sigma(x)$ ...
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Non-closed geodesics on a convex polyhedron in $\mathbb{R}^3$

Let $P$ be the surface of a closed convex polyhedron in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Q. Does every non-closed geodesic $\gamma$ fill $P$ densely? Of course $\gamma$ cannot pass through a vertex of $P$, but it ...
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Zoll Flat Finsler tori and convex bodies on a starry night

The starry night. The "celestial sphere" is given by set of non-zero vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n$ modulo positive dilations (i.e., $v \equiv w$ if $v = \lambda w$ for some $ \lambda > 0$) and the "...