On circle patterns and spherical conical metrics

DOI10.1090/PROC/16557arXiv2301.09585OpenAlexW4379619035MaRDI QIDQ6183399FDOQ6183399

Authors: Xin Nie 

Publication date: 4 January 2024

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Koebe-Andreev-Thurston circle packing theorem, as well as its generalization to circle patterns due to Bobenko and Springborn, holds for Euclidean and hyperbolic metrics possibly with conical singularities, but fails for spherical metrics because of the non-uniqueness coming from M"obius transformations. In this paper, we show that a unique existence result for circle pattern with spherical conical metric holds if one prescribes the geodesic total curvature of each circle instead of the cone angles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09585

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zbMATH Keywords

total geodesic curvatureKoebe-Andreev-Thurston Theoremspherical circle patterns

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

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