On discrete constant principal curvature surfaces

Abstract

It has been recently discovered that a certain class of nanocarbon materials has geometrical properties related to the geometry of discrete surfaces with a pre-constant discrete curvature, based on a discrete surface theory for trivalent graphs proposed in 2017 by Kotani et al. In this paper, with the aim of an application to the nanocarbon materials, we will study discrete constant principal curvature (CPC) surfaces. Firstly, we develop the discrete surface theory on a full 3-ary oriented tree so that we define a discrete analogue of principal directions on them and investigate it. We also construct some interesting examples of discrete constant principal curvature surfaces, including discrete CPC tori.