Generalized Andreev conjecture for trivalent hyperbolic polyhedra
Let be an abstract trivalent polyhedron with more than five faces, and let be a dihedral-angle function. A Whitehead pair is a pair of edges of belonging to a common face and having four distinct endpoints. A prismatic -circuit is a curve in the dual complex intersecting edges of and forming the usual prismatic circuit. Assume the following conditions hold:
- If is the boundary of the union of two adjacent triangles of and intersects edges , with and both Whitehead pairs, then either or .
- Whenever distinct edges meet at a vertex,
and
- For every prismatic -circuit intersecting edges ,
Generalized Andreev conjecture. There exists a compact convex hyperbolic polyhedron combinatorially equivalent to whose dihedral angles are given by , and is unique up to isometries of . The conjecture would extend Andreev's characterization of compact convex hyperbolic polyhedra to this class of trivalent polyhedra, with the Whitehead-pair condition addressing the additional combinatorial obstruction. The supplied text does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.
References
Primary source
Ze Zhou, “Generalizing Andreev's Theorem via circle patterns”, arXiv:2308.14386 (2023).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2010.13076.
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