A Branched Andreev-Thurston Theorem for Circle Packings of the Sphere

DOI10.1112/plms/s3-73.1.185zbMath0856.51012OpenAlexW2035925636MaRDI QIDQ4892418

Kenneth Stephenson, Phil Bowers

Publication date: 15 September 1996

Published in: Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1112/plms/s3-73.1.185

zbMATH Keywords

circle packingsHopf theoremAndreev-Thurston theorembranched circle packingtangency packing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Maximum principle, Schwarz's lemma, Lindelöf principle, analogues and generalizations; subordination (30C80) Discrete geometry (52C99)

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