Discrete complex analysis on isoradial graphs (Q639563)

This substantial paper studies discrete versions of complex analysis and potential theory in the plane. More precisely, it concerns isoradial graphs, where all faces can be inscribed into circles of equal radii, and provides discrete versions of several well known results. The authors establish the uniform convergence of discrete Dirichlet solutions, harmonic measures, Green functions and Poisson kernels to their continuous counterparts, and also of their discrete gradients (which can be regarded as discrete holomorphic functions). The overall aim of the paper is best summarized in the authors' own words: ``The primary goal of our paper is to provide a `toolbox' of discrete versions of continuous results (particularly `hard' estimates) sufficient to perform a passage to the scaling limit. Of particular interest to us is the critical Ising model, and this paper starts a series devoted to its universality (which means that the scaling limit is independent of the shape of the lattice).''