On a combinatorial curvature for surfaces with inversive distance circle packing metrics (Q1753332)

This paper is a continuation of previous authors work on combinatorial curvature. First, the authors recall some basic facts on inverse distance circle packing metrics, the classical Gauss curvature and they introduce a new definition of combinatorial curvature for triangulated surfaces with inverse distance circle packing metrics. The authors establish a global rigidity of the new combinatorial curvature with respect to the inverse distance circle packing metrics. Also, the authors introduce the combinatorial Ricci flow to study the combinatorial Yamabé problem and obtain that the existence of a constant curvature metric is equivalent to the convergence of the flow on triangulated surfaces with nonpositive Euler number. Last, the authors generalize the combinatorial curvature to \(\alpha\)-curvature and study the rigidity of the \(\alpha\)-curvature, the constant \(\alpha\)-curvature problem and the prescribing \(\alpha\)-curvature problem.