A discrete version of Liouville's theorem on conformal maps

DOI10.1007/S10711-021-00621-2MaRDI QIDQ2230976zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ulrich Pinkall, Boris A. Springborn

Publication date 29 September 2021

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00966

zbMATH Keywords

conformal flatnessdiscrete conformal mapMöbius transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Differential geometry of submanifolds of Möbius space (53A31) Discrete differential geometry (53A70)

Abstract: Liouville's theorem says that in dimension greater than two, all conformal maps are M"obius transformations. We prove an analogous statement about simplicial complexes, where two simplicial complexes are considered discretely conformally equivalent if they are combinatorially equivalent and the lengths of corresponding edges are related by scale factors associated with the vertices.

Review text

In the paper under review, a discrete version of Liouville's theorem for simplicial complexes is given and proved using Cauchy's rigidity theorem for convex polyhedra and its higher-dimensional generalization.

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