Discrete quasi-Einstein metrics and combinatorial curvature flows in 3-dimension

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2014.09.011zbMATH Open1301.53061OpenAlexW2122372995MaRDI QIDQ462295FDOQ462295

Authors Huabin Ge, Xu Xu 

Publication date 20 October 2014

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3398

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial Yamabe flowcombinatorial curvature flowcombinatorial Yamabe functionalcombinatorial Yamabe invariantdiscrete quadratic energy functionaldiscrete quasi-Einstein metric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Combinatorial complexity of geometric structures (52C45)

Abstract: We define Discrete Quasi-Einstein metrics (DQE-metrics) as the critical points of discrete total curvature functional on triangulated 3-manifolds. We study DQE-metrics by introducing some combinatorial curvature flows. We prove that these flows produce solutions which converge to discrete quasi-Einstein metrics when the initial energy is small enough. The proof relies on a careful analysis of discrete dual-Laplacians which we interpret as the Jacobian matrix of the curvature map. As a consequence, combinatorial curvature flow provides an algorithm to compute discrete sphere packing metrics with prescribed curvatures.

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