Periodic discrete conformal maps

DOI10.1515/CRLL.2001.038MaRDI QIDQ2717079zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ian McIntosh, P. Norman, Udo Hertrich-Jeromin, Franz Pedit

Publication date 13 June 2001

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9905112, https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de//handle/11303/8283

zbMATH Keywords

integrable systemsJacobi varietylinear flowMöbius equivalenceperiodic discrete conformal mappings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with algebraic geometry, complex analysis, and special functions (37K20) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12)

Abstract: A discrete conformal map (DCM) maps the square lattice to the Riemann sphere such that the image of every irreducible square has the same cross-ratio. This paper shows that every periodic DCM can be determined from spectral data (a hyperelliptic compact Riemann surface, called the spectral curve, equipped with some marked points). Each point of the map corresponds to a line bundle over the spectral curve so that the map corresponds to a discrete subgroup of the Jacobi variety. We derive an explicit formula for the generic maps using Riemann theta functions, describe the typical singularities and give a geometric interpretation of DCM's as a discrete version of the Schwarzian KdV equation. As such, the DCM equation is a discrete soliton equation and we describe the dressing action of a loop group on the set of DCM's. We also show that this action corresponds to a lattice of isospectral Darboux transforms for the finite gap solutions of the KdV equation.

Review text

The main goal of the authors is to show that all periodic discrete conformal mappings can be constructed using methods which are straight from integrable systems theory, viz, by relating each such map to a linear flow on the Jacobi variety of a compact Riemann surface. They show that every periodic discrete conformal mapping is determined, uniquely up to Möbius equivalence, by its spectral data.

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