Linear variational principle for Riemann mappings and discrete conformality

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1809731116MaRDI QIDQ5222797zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nadav Dym, Raz Slutsky, Yaron Lipman

Publication date 3 July 2019

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02221

zbMATH Keywords

discretizationtrianglevariational principleconformal mappingsDirichlet energyLipschitz domainsRiemann mapping theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal mappings of special domains (30C20) Extremal problems for conformal and quasiconformal mappings, variational methods (30C70)

Abstract: We consider Riemann mappings from bounded Lipschitz domains in the plane to a triangle. We show that in this case the Riemann mapping has a linear variational principle: it is the minimizer of the Dirichlet energy over an appropriate affine space. By discretizing the variational principle in a natural way we obtain discrete conformal maps which can be computed by solving a sparse linear system. We show that these discrete conformal maps converge to the Riemann mapping in $H^1$, even for non-Delaunay triangulations. Additionally, for Delaunay triangulations the discrete conformal maps converge uniformly and are known to be bijective. As a consequence we show that the Riemann mapping between two bounded Lipschitz domains can be uniformly approximated by composing the Riemann mappings between each Lipschitz domain and the triangle.

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