A note on the weighted Yamabe flow (Q6165681)

The author introduces a natural generalization of the classical combinatorial Ricci flow introduced by \textit{B. Chow} and \textit{F. Luo} [J. Differ. Geom. 63, No. 1, 97--129 (2003; Zbl 1070.53004)], which the author calls the weighted Ricci flow. To study its properties, the author uses the discrete conformal transformation introduced by \textit{F. Luo} [Commun. Contemp. Math. 6, No. 5, 765--780 (2004; Zbl 1075.53063)], which is usually called vertex scaling now. In the discrete conformal class on a triangulated surface, the author studies the invariants, monotonic quantities, singularities along the combinatorial curvature flow. Following Luo's original work, the author further investigates the combinatorial and topological obstacles for the existence of discrete metrics with constant weighted curvature. He does surgery by edge flipping on the triangulations of the surface under the Delaunay condition along the weighted Ricci flow, and uses Gu-Luo-Sun-Wu's discrete conformal theory to study the longtime behavior of the weighted Ricci flow with surgery.