Parameterized combinatorial curvatures and parameterized combinatorial curvature flows for discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2022.109442zbMATH Open1485.52012arXiv2105.14714OpenAlexW3166424515MaRDI QIDQ2118413FDOQ2118413

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 22 March 2022

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Discrete conformal structure on polyhedral surfaces is a discrete analogue of the smooth conformal structure on surfaces that assigns discrete metrics by scalar functions defined on vertices. In this paper, we introduce combinatorial $alpha$-curvature for discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces, which is a parameterized generalization of the classical combinatorial curvature. Then we prove the local and global rigidity of combinatorial $alpha$-curvature with respect to discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces, which confirms parameterized Glickenstein rigidity conjecture. To study the Yamabe problem for combinatorial $alpha$-curvature, we introduce combinatorial $alpha$-Ricci flow for discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces, which is a generalization of Chow-Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow for Thurston's circle packings and Luo's combinatorial Yamabe flow for vertex scaling on polyhedral surfaces. To handle the potential singularities of the combinatorial $alpha$-Ricci flow, we extend the flow through the singularities by extending the inner angles in triangles by constants. Under the existence of a discrete conformal structure with prescribed combinatorial curvature, the solution of extended combinatorial $alpha$-Ricci flow is proved to exist for all time and converge exponentially fast for any initial value. This confirms a parameterized generalization of another conjecture of Glickenstein on the convergence of combinatorial Ricci flow, gives an almost equivalent characterization of the solvability of Yamabe problem for combinatorial $alpha$-curvature in terms of combinatorial $alpha$-Ricci flow and provides an effective algorithm for finding discrete conformal structures with prescribed combinatorial $alpha$-curvatures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14714

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zbMATH Keywords

rigiditycombinatorial Ricci flowcombinatorial curvaturediscrete conformal structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26) Ricci flows (53E20) Discrete differential geometry (53A70)

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