Euclidean formulation of discrete uniformization of the disk

DOI10.4310/GIC.2016.V3.N3.A1MaRDI QIDQ1746931zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors David Glickenstein

Publication date 26 April 2018

Published in Geometry, Imaging and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7019

zbMATH Keywords

uniformizationThurston's circle packing approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

Abstract: Thurston's circle packing approximation of the Riemann Mapping (proven to give the Riemann Mapping in the limit by Rodin-Sullivan) is largely based on the theorem that any topological disk with a circle packing metric can be deformed into a circle packing metric in the disk with boundary circles internally tangent to the circle. The main proofs of the uniformization use hyperbolic volumes (Andreev) or hyperbolic circle packings (by Beardon and Stephenson). We reformulate these problems into a Euclidean context, which allows more general discrete conformal structures and boundary conditions. The main idea is to replace the disk with a double covered disk with one side forced to be a circle and the other forced to have interior curvature zero. The entire problem is reduced to finding a zero curvature structure. We also show that these curvatures arise naturally as curvature measures on generalized manifolds (manifolds with multiplicity) that extend the usual discrete Lipschitz-Killing curvatures on surfaces.

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