Adiabatic isometric mapping algorithm for embedding 2-surfaces in Euclidean 3-space

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/23/235012zbMath1329.83049arXiv1503.07556OpenAlexW3099928314MaRDI QIDQ3466379

Shannon Ray, Warner Allen Miller, Shing Tung Yau, Paul M. Alsing

Publication date: 1 February 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07556

zbMATH Keywords

heuristic optimizationcomputational geometryquasi-local energyWeyl embeddingadiabatic isometric mapping (AIM)Alexandrov embedding

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08)

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Uses Software

• DistMesh

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