A variational principle for circle packings.

DOI10.1007/BF01245096zbMath0745.52010MaRDI QIDQ1176645

Yves Colin de Verdière

Publication date: 25 June 1992

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/143902

zbMATH Keywords

triangulation; circle packings; circular discs; representation of planar graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

52C15: Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry)

57M50: General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

51M16: Inequalities and extremum problems in real or complex geometry

30F99: Riemann surfaces

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