The Angle Defect for Odd-Dimensional Simplicial Manifolds |
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Authors: | Ethan D Bloch |
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Institution: | (1) Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504, USA |
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Abstract: | In a 1967 paper, Banchoff stated that a certain type of polyhedral curvature,
that applies to all finite polyhedra, was zero at all vertices of an odd-dimensional polyhedral manifold; one then obtains
an elementary proof that odd-dimensional manifolds have zero Euler characteristic. In a previous paper, the author defined
a different approach to curvature for arbitrary simplicial complexes, based upon a direct generalization of the angle defect.
The generalized angle defect is not zero at the simplices of every odd-dimensional manifold. In this paper we use a sequence
based upon the Bernoulli numbers to define a variant of the angle defect for finite simplicial complexes that still satisfies
a Gauss-Bonnet-type theorem, but is also zero at any simplex of an odd-dimensional simplicial complex K (of dimension at least
3), such that χ(link(ηi, K)) = 2 for all i-simplices ηi of K, where i is an even integer such that 0 ≤ i ≤ n – 1. As a corollary, an elementary proof is given that any such simplicial
complex has Euler characteristic zero. |
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