A maximum principle for combinatorial Yamabe flow

DOI10.1016/J.TOP.2005.02.002zbMATH Open1074.39019arXivmath/0211195OpenAlexW1985708268MaRDI QIDQ556232FDOQ556232

David Glickenstein

Publication date: 13 June 2005

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This article studies a discrete geometric structure on triangulated manifolds and an associated curvature flow (combinatorial Yamabe flow). The associated evolution of curvature appears to be like a heat equation on graphs, but it can be shown to not satisfy the maximum principle. The notion of a parabolic-like operator is introduced as an operator which satisfies the maximum principle, but may not be parabolic in the usual sense of operators on graphs. A maximum principle is derived for the curvature of combinatorial Yamabe flow under certain assumptions on the triangulation, and hence the heat operator is shown to be parabolic-like. The maximum principle then allows a characterization of the curvature as well was a proof of long term existence of the flow.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211195

zbMATH Keywords

maximum principleYamabe flowcurvature flowsphere packingcombinatorial flowdiscrete Riemannian geometryLaplacian on graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat equation (35K05) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

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