scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1786679
This paper lists results and sketches proofs obtained by the author in his thesis. The first part contains a probabilistic proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem by expressing the asymptotics (w.r.\ to a Poisson process) of the expectation value of the number of faces of certain random triangulations in terms of Gaussian curvature. The second part is concerned with abstract triangulations \(\mathcal T\) (with \(\chi<0\)) whose triangles \(T\) are endowed with interior angles (`angle systems'). If adjacent triangles \(ABC\) and \(A'BC\) can be realized in a constant curvature surface, and have angles \(\alpha,\beta,\gamma\) and \(\alpha',\beta',\gamma'\), then their circumcircles enclose the angle \(\psi^e=(\beta+\beta'+\gamma+\gamma'-\alpha-\alpha')/2\). Two angle systems are called conformally equivalent if the angles \(\psi^e\) are the same for both. After first replacing an angle system by a conformally equivalent one all of whose triangles are hyperbolic, the author considers the function \(H=\sum_{T\in{\mathcal T}}V_T\) with \(V_T\) being the volume of an ideal hyperbolic prism with the same angles as \(T\). It turns out that the unique minimum of \(H\) yields a conformally equivalent angle system realizable in a constant curvature surface, thus proving a discrete uniformization theorem. Finally the paper gives a survey of a proof of the continuous metric uniformization theorem in the case of \(\chi<0\) which uses probabilistic methods and the discrete results above. For a given metric \(g\), a conformally equivalent metric \(h=e^\phi g\) of constant curvature is found by maximizing a certain objective function \(I^g\) whose definition uses the asymptotic expectation values of prism volumes as above, and which is related to entropy, area, and the Laplacian via \(I^g(h)=M(g)-M(h)\), with \(M(h)=E(h)-12\pi\log(\det(\Delta_h)/A_h)\).
- A discrete uniformization theorem for polyhedral surfaces
- A discrete uniformization theorem for polyhedral surfaces. II
- Planar maps, circle patterns and 2D gravity
- Local properties of the random Delaunay triangulation model and topological models of 2D gravity
- A glimpse of the conformal structure of random planar maps
- A note on point location in Delaunay triangulations of random points
- Characterizing the Delaunay decompositions of compact hyperbolic surfaces
- Nonuniform SINR+Voroni diagrams are effectively uniform
- Probabilistic bounds on the length of a longest edge in Delaunay graphs of random points in \(d\)-dimensions
- Local properties of the random Delaunay triangulation model and topological models of 2D gravity
- Duality structures and discrete conformal variations of piecewise constant curvature surfaces
- Book Review: Ricci flow for shape analysis and surface registration: theories, algorithms and applications
- Homogenization of random quasiconformal mappings and random Delauney triangulations
- Geometric inequalities, stability results and Kendall's problem in spherical space
- On the stabbing number of a random Delaunay triangulation
- Circle patterns on singular surfaces
This page was built for publication:
Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4547987)
