On discrete differential geometry in twistor space

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2013.02.008MaRDI QIDQ387744zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors George Shapiro

Publication date 17 December 2013

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.5711

zbMATH Keywords

discrete differential geometryquaternionic projective spacediscrete integrable systemscross-ratioconformal differential geometryPlücker quadric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Other special differential geometries (53A40) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28)

Abstract: In this paper we introduce a discrete integrable system generalizing the discrete (real) cross-ratio system in $S^4$ to complex values of a generalized cross-ratio by considering $S^4$ as a real section of the complex Pl"ucker quadric, realized as the space of two-spheres in $S^4.$ We develop the geometry of the Pl"ucker quadric by examining the novel contact properties of two-spheres in $S^4,$ generalizing classical Lie geometry in $S^3.$ Discrete differential geometry aims to develop discrete equivalents of the geometric notions and methods of classical differential geometry. We define discrete principal contact element nets for the Pl"ucker quadric and prove several elementary results. Employing a second real real structure, we show that these results generalize previous results by Bobenko and Suris $(2007)$ on discrete differential geometry in the Lie quadric.

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