A combinatorial Yamabe flow in three dimensions

DOI10.1016/J.TOP.2005.02.001MaRDI QIDQ556231zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David Glickenstein

Publication date 13 June 2005

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506182

zbMATH Keywords

LaplacianYamabe flowcurvature flowsphere packingdiscrete Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Abstract: A combinatorial version of Yamabe flow is presented based on Euclidean triangulations coming from sphere packings. The evolution of curvature is then derived and shown to satisfy a heat equation. The Laplacian in the heat equation is shown to be a geometric analogue of the Laplacian of Riemannian geometry, although the maximum principle need not hold. It is then shown that if the flow is nonsingular, the flow converges to a constant curvature metric.

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