# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

January  2015, 22: 12-19. doi: 10.3934/era.2015.22.12

## Smoothing 3-dimensional polyhedral spaces

 1 Steklov Institute, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation 2 Institut für Mathematik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany 3 Mathematics Department, Pennsylvania State University, United States 4 National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation

Received  November 2014 Published  June 2015

We show that 3-dimensional polyhedral manifolds with nonnegative curvature in the sense of Alexandrov can be approximated by nonnegatively curved 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds.
Citation: Nina Lebedeva, Vladimir Matveev, Anton Petrunin, Vsevolod Shevchishin. Smoothing 3-dimensional polyhedral spaces. Electronic Research Announcements, 2015, 22: 12-19. doi: 10.3934/era.2015.22.12
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