Circle packings in surfaces of finite type: An in situ approach with applications to moduli

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(93)90044-VMaRDI QIDQ2367221zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kenneth Stephenson, Philip L. Bowers

Publication date 18 August 1993

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(93)90044-v

zbMATH Keywords

circle packings on Riemann surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification theory of Riemann surfaces (30F20) Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15)

Review text

Only the idea of circle packing belongs to discrete geometry -- its utilization in the complex analysis goes back to B. Thurston and R. Brooks [see, e.g., \textit{R. Brooks}, Duke Math. J. 52, 1009-1024 (1985; Zbl 0587.58060)]. The aim of the present article is ``non-discrete too. The main result of the authors is the following theorem: Every complete hyperbolic Riemann surface of finite topological type can be approximated in modulus by a complete surface that admits a bounded degree circle packing filling the surface. Moreover, it can be so arranged that the approximating surface has a circle packing that is eventually constant 6- degree on its cusp neighborhoods and constant 7-degree on its infinite area half-annular ends; in particular, at most finitely many of its circles will have degree greater than seven.

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