Miquel dynamics for circle patterns

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNY039MaRDI QIDQ5217271zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sanjay Ramassamy

Publication date 24 February 2020

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05509

zbMATH Keywords

combinatoricsdiscrete-time dynamical systemcircle patternsMiquel dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems involving smooth mappings and diffeomorphisms (37C05) Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests (37J35) Relationships between algebraic curves and integrable systems (14H70) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

Abstract: We study a new discrete-time dynamical system on circle patterns with the combinatorics of the square grid. This dynamics, called Miquel dynamics, relies on Miquel's six circles theorem. We provide a coordinatization of the appropriate space of circle patterns on which the dynamics acts and use it to derive local recurrence formulas. Isoradial circle patterns arise as periodic points of Miquel dynamics. Furthermore, we prove that certain signed sums of intersection angles are preserved by the dynamics. Finally, when the initial circle pattern is spatially biperiodic with a fundamental domain of size two by two, we show that the appropriately normalized motion of intersection points of circles takes place along an explicit quartic curve.

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