Area-Preserving Parameterization: Variational Principle, Gradient Flow, and Discrete Approximation

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2608.17873MaRDI QIDQ7284838arXivFDO

Authors Mei-Heng Yueh, Shu-Yung Liu, Kento Sakai

Publication date 18 August 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We develop an authalic flow as the L^2 gradient descent of the stretch energy, a variational characterization of area-preserving diffeomorphisms, and its discrete counterpart. We establish consistency and an area distortion bound for the discrete version.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.17873

arXiv classification

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