Comparing shapes of genus-zero surfaces

DOI10.1007/S41468-017-0004-YMaRDI QIDQ1659337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joel R. Hass, Patrice Koehl

Publication date 15 August 2018

Published in Journal of Applied and Computational Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00798

zbMATH Keywords

shape comparisondiscrete conformal mapsurface alignment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

Abstract: We present a new method to compare the shapes of genus-zero surfaces. We introduce a measure of mutual stretching, the symmetric distortion energy, and establish the existence of a conformal diffeomorphism between any two genus-zero surfaces that minimizes this energy. We then prove that the energies of the minimizing diffeomorphisms give a metric on the space of genus-zero Riemannian surfaces. This metric and the corresponding optimal diffeomorphisms are shown to have properties that are highly desirable for applications.

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