Smoothing polyhedral spaces via Ricci flow
We prove Petrunin's smoothing conjecture in all dimensions: every compact Euclidean polyhedral space without boundary and with nonnegative Alexandrov curvature is a Gromov-Hausdorff limit of smooth Riemannian orbifolds with geometrically nonnegative curvature. More strongly, the approximating metrics are positive-time...