Dihedral rigidity conjecture for hyperbolic polyhedra

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For a unit vector cveca=(a1,a2,a3)cvec{a}=(a^1,a^2,a^3) and soindentincmathbbRs oindent\text{in}cmathbb{R}, let

Z(cveca,s)=cbracexoindentincmathbbR3:x1>0,csumiaixi=scbraceZ(cvec{a},s)=cbrace{x oindent\text{in}cmathbb{R}^3:x^1>0,csum_i a^i x^i=scbrace}

be the totally umbilic planes in the upper-half-space model (cmathbbR+3,b)(cmathbb{R}^3_+,b) of hyperbolic 33-space. Let Pˉ\bar P be a hyperbolic reference polyhedron enclosed by such planes and convex in (R+3,δ)(\mathbb{R}^3_+,\delta), with faces Fˉi\bar F_i. Let (M3,g)(M^3,g) be a Riemannian manifold diffeomorphic to Pˉ\bar P, and define the outward dihedral angle by cos⁡∡ijM=−⟨Xi,Xj⟩\cos\measuredangle_{ij}M=-\langle X_i,X_j\rangle. Dihedral rigidity conjecture. If Rg≥−6R_g\geq-6, the mean curvature of every face of MM is at least that of the corresponding face of Pˉ\bar P, and every dihedral angle of MM is at most the corresponding angle of Pˉ\bar P, then MM is isometric to Pˉ\bar P. Mean curvature is computed with respect to the outward unit normal. This conjecture is motivated by hyperbolic mass and earlier dihedral rigidity conjectures; its resolution status is not established in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Xiaoxiang Chai and Gaoming Wang, “Dihedral rigidity in hyperbolic 3-space”, arXiv:2208.03859 (2022).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2007.12563, arXiv:1907.03855, arXiv:1710.08067.

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