# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2014, 34(4): 1269-1284. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.1269

## Prescription of Gauss curvature on compact hyperbolic orbifolds

 1 Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, UMR CNRS 5219, Université Toulouse III, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France

Received  October 2012 Revised  March 2013 Published  October 2013

In this paper, we generalize a result by Alexandrov on the Gauss curvature prescription for Euclidean convex bodies. We prove an analogous result for hyperbolic orbifolds. In addition to the duality theory for convex sets, our main tool comes from optimal mass transport.
Citation: Jérôme Bertrand. Prescription of Gauss curvature on compact hyperbolic orbifolds. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2014, 34 (4) : 1269-1284. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2014.34.1269
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##### References:
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