Abstract: The double tetrahedron is the triangulation of the three-sphere gotten by gluing together two congruent tetrahedra along their boundaries. As a piecewise flat manifold, its geometry is determined by its six edge lengths, giving a notion of a metric on the double tetrahedron. We study notions of Einstein metrics, constant scalar curvature metrics, and the Yamabe problem on the double tetrahedron, with some reference to the possibilities on a general piecewise flat manifold. The main tool is analysis of Reggeʼs Einstein–Hilbert functional, a piecewise flat analogue of the Einstein–Hilbert (or total scalar curvature) functional on Riemannian manifolds. We study the Einstein–Hilbert–Regge functional on the space of metrics and on discrete conformal classes of metrics.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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