Discrete extremal length and cube tilings in finite dimensions

DOI10.1007/S40315-014-0093-8MaRDI QIDQ2339697zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors William E. Wood

Publication date 2 April 2015

Published in Computational Methods and Function Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2741

zbMATH Keywords

extremal lengthdiscrete conformal geometrytiling by cubestriple intersection property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Abstract: Extremal length is a conformal invariant that transfers naturally to the discrete setting, giving square tilings as a natural combinatorial analog of conformal mappings. Recent work by S. Hersonsky has explored generalizing these ideas to three-dimensional cube tilings. The connections between discrete extremal length and cube tilings survive the dimension jump, but a condition called the triple intersection property is needed to generalize existence arguments. We show that this condition is too strong to realize a tiling, thus showing that discrete conformal mappings are far more limited in dimension three, mirroring the classical phenomenon. We also generalize results about discrete extremal length beyond dimension three and introduce some necessary conditions for cube tilings.

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