COMBINATORIAL YAMABE FLOW ON SURFACES

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DOI10.1142/S0219199704001501zbMATH Open1075.53063arXivmath/0306167OpenAlexW2136126748MaRDI QIDQ4675804FDOQ4675804


Authors: Feng Luo Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 6 May 2005

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we develop an approach to conformal geometry of piecewise flat metrics on manifolds. In particular, we formulate the combinatorial Yamabe problem for piecewise flat metrics. In the case of surfaces, we define the combinatorial Yamabe flow on the space of all piecewise flat metrics associated to a triangulated surface. We show that the flow either develops removable singularities or converges exponentially fast to a constant combinatorial curvature metric. If the singularity develops, we show that the singularity is always removable by a surgery procedure on the triangulation. We conjecture that after finitely many such surgery changes on the triangulation, the flow converges to the constant combinatorial curvature metric as time approaches infinity.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306167




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