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In this paper we study the extrinsic geometry of convex polyhedral surfaces in three-dimensional hyperbolic spaceH 3. We obtain a number of new uniqueness results, and also obtain a characterization of the shapes of convex polyhedra inH 3 in terms of a generalized Gauss map. This characterization greatly generalizes Andre'ev's Theorem.
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Hodgson, C.D., Rivin, I. A characterization of compact convex polyhedra in hyperbolic 3-space. Invent Math 111, 77–111 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01231281
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