Discrete Yamabe problem for polyhedral surfaces

DOI10.1007/S00454-023-00484-2zbMATH Open1523.53016arXiv2103.15693OpenAlexW4360980667MaRDI QIDQ6156089FDOQ6156089

Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská

Publication date: 12 June 2023

Published in: Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a new discretization of the Gaussian curvature for polyhedral surfaces. This discrete Gaussian curvature is defined on each conical singularity of a polyhedral surface as the quotient of the angle defect and the area of the Voronoi cell corresponding to the singularity. We divide polyhedral surfaces into discrete conformal classes using a generalization of discrete conformal equivalence pioneered by Feng Luo. We subsequently show that, in every discrete conformal class, there exists a polyhedral surface with constant discrete Gaussian curvature. We also provide explicit examples to demonstrate that this surface is in general not unique.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15693

zbMATH Keywords

Delaunay triangulationdiscrete Gaussian curvaturepiecewise linear metricdiscrete conformal equivalencediscrete Yamabe problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26) Discrete differential geometry (53A70)

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• Parameterized combinatorial curvatures and parameterized combinatorial curvature flows for discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces
• Variational principles and combinatorial \(p\)-th Yamabe flows on surfaces

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