Infinitesimal conformal deformations of triangulated surfaces in space
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deformationsconformalinfinitesimalspacechangehandtriangulatedangles
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We study infinitesimal conformal deformations of a triangulated surface in Euclidean space and investigate the change in its extrinsic geometry. A deformation of vertices is conformal if it preserves length cross-ratios. On one hand, conformal deformations generalize deformations preserving edge lengths. On the other hand, there is a one-to-one correspondence between infinitesimal conformal deformations in space and infinitesimal isometric deformations of the stereographic image on the sphere. The space of infinitesimal conformal deformations can be parametrized in terms of the change in dihedral angles, which is closely related to the Schl\"{a}fli formula.
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