Planar immersions with prescribed curl and Jacobian determinant are unique

DOI10.1017/S0004972721000812MaRDI QIDQ5097525zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anthony Gruber

Publication date 25 August 2022

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13707

zbMATH Keywords

grid generationprescribed curlprescribed Jacobian determinantuniqueness problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Nonlinear first-order PDEs (35F20) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We prove that immersions of planar domains are uniquely specified by their Jacobian determinant, curl function, and boundary values. This settles the two-dimensional version of an outstanding conjecture related to a particular grid generation method in computer graphics.

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