Holomorphic vector fields and quadratic differentials on planar triangular meshes

DOI10.1007/978-3-662-50447-5_7MaRDI QIDQ2832775zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wai Yeung Lam, Ulrich Pinkall

Publication date 14 November 2016

Published in Advances in Discrete Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08099

zbMATH Keywords

discrete vector fieldstriangulated regions in the plane

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete analytic functions (30G25) Discrete potential theory (31C20)

Abstract: Given a triangulated region in the complex plane, a discrete vector field $Y$ assigns a vector $Y_{i}inmathbbC$ to every vertex. We call such a vector field holomorphic if it defines an infinitesimal deformation of the triangulation that preserves length cross ratios. We show that each holomorphic vector field can be constructed based on a discrete harmonic function in the sense of the cotan Laplacian. Moreover, to each holomorphic vector field we associate in a M"obius invariant fashion a certain holomorphic quadratic differential. Here a quadratic differential is defined as an object that assigns a purely imaginary number to each interior edge. Then we derive a Weierstrass representation formula, which shows how a holomorphic quadratic differential can be used to construct a discrete minimal surface with prescribed Gau{ss} map and prescribed Hopf differential.

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