A new proof of Bowers-Stephenson conjecture

DOI10.4310/MRL.2021.V28.N4.A15MaRDI QIDQ2053666zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 30 November 2021

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11127

zbMATH Keywords

Bowers-Stephenson conjectureinversive distanceThurston's circle packing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17)

Abstract: Inversive distance circle packing on surfaces was introduced by Bowers-Stephenson as a generalization of Thurston's circle packing and conjectured to be rigid. The infinitesimal and global rigidity of circle packing with nonnegative inversive distance were proved by Guo and Luo respectively. The author proved the global rigidity of circle packing with inversive distance in $(-1,+infty)$. In this paper, we give a new variational proof of the Bowers-Stephenson conjecture for inversive distance in $(-1,+infty)$, which simplifies the existing proofs and could be generalized to three dimensional case.

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