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Polygons with Prescribed Gauss Map in Hadamard Spaces and Euclidean Buildings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Andreas Balser*
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, LMU München, Theresienstrasse 39, D-80333 München, Germany e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We show that given a stable weighted configuration on the asymptotic boundary of a locally compact Hadamard space, there is a polygon with Gauss map prescribed by the given weighted configuration. Moreover, the same result holds for semistable configurations on arbitrary Euclidean buildings.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2006

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