Two novel algorithms for conformal parameterization of multiply-connected surfaces.
problem Parameterization of surfaces with holes.
method Developed efficient methods using quasi-conformal theory.
result Efficient conformal parameterization of multiply-connected surfaces.
The conformal geometry of surfaces in the conformal space Q1n is studied. We classify the space-like surfaces in Q1n with vanishing conformal form up to conformal equivalence.
This paper completes the classification of discrete conformal structures on surfaces.
problem Classifying discrete conformal structures on surfaces.
method Axiomatic approach and study of existing structures.
result Find new classes of discrete conformal structures, including generalized circle packing metrics.
The study finds points on surfaces where a tensor is conformal to a metric.
problem Existence of conformal points on surfaces.
method Analyzes symmetric bilinear two-tensor fields and Riemannian metrics.
result Provides conditions for the existence of conformal points.
New framework for better mapping of surfaces onto ellipsoids.
problem Mapping genus-0 closed surfaces onto spheres results in large distortion.
method Combining conformal and quasi-conformal mappings onto ellipsoids.
result Achieved a variety of ellipsoidal parameterizations with bijectivity.
Extends rigidity and existence results for discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary.
problem Rigidity and existence of discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary.
method Axiomatic framework and classification of discrete conformal structures.
result Extends results by Guo-Luo and Guo to a general context.
Study on special anisotropic conformal changes of conic pseudo-Finsler surfaces.
problem Exploring various anisotropic conformal transformations of conic pseudo-Finsler surfaces.
method Presented various anisotropic conformal transformations including C-anisotropic, horizontal C-anisotropic, and vertical C-anisotropic transformations. result Vertical φT-condition transformation makes every Landsberg surface Berwaldian. Motivated by the beautiful theory and the rich applications of harmonic conformal immersions and conformal immersions of constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces, we study biharmonic conformal immersions of surfaces into a generic 3-manifold. We first derive an invariant equation for such immersions, we then try to answe…
Surface parameterizations have been widely used in computer graphics and geometry processing. In particular, as simply-connected open surfaces are conformally equivalent to the unit disk, it is desirable to compute the disk conformal parameterizations of the surfaces. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for the…
This paper classifies discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary.
problem Classifying discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary.
method Axiomatic approach ensuring good geometric structure, classification based on triangulation and axioms.
result Unified and generalized existing discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary.
We address the problem of surface inpainting, which aims to fill in holes or missing regions on a Riemann surface based on its surface geometry. In practical situation, surfaces obtained from range scanners often have holes where the 3D models are incomplete. In order to analyze the 3D shapes effectively, restoring the…
Harmonic maps between pinched Hadamard surfaces are quasi-conformal.
problem Characterizing harmonic maps between Hadamard surfaces.
method Proving harmonic quasi-isometries are quasi-conformal diffeomorphisms.
result Harmonic quasi-isometries of pinched Hadamard surfaces are injective.
Paper connects hypersurfaces in 4D to surfaces in 3-sphere.
problem Understanding conformally flat hypersurfaces in 4D space forms.
method Characterizes conformal structures and relates to surfaces in 3-sphere.
result Relates 2-metrics in 3-sphere to surfaces giving rise to conformally flat hypersurfaces.
For a surface in 3-sphere, by identifying the conformal round 3-sphere as the projectivized positive light cone in Minkowski 5-spacetime, we use the conformal Gauss map and the conformal transform to construct the associate homogeneous 4-surface in Minkowski 5-spacetime. We then derive the local fundamental theorem for…
We address the problem of second order conformal deformation of spacelike surfaces in compactified Minkowski 4-space. We explain the construction of the exterior differential system of conformal deformations and discuss its general and singular solutions. In particular, we show that isothermic surfaces are singular sol…
Conformal surface parameterization is useful in graphics, imaging and visualization, with applications to texture mapping, atlas construction, registration, remeshing and so on. With the increasing capability in scanning and storing data, dense 3D surface meshes are common nowadays. While meshes with higher resolution …
The study characterizes surfaces with specific harmonic properties in pseudo-conformal geometry.
problem Characterizing surfaces with harmonic properties in pseudo-conformal geometry.
method Investigating sphere congruences, quasi-umbilical surfaces, and constant mean curvature surfaces.
result Generically, Bryant's quartic differential is divergence free if and only if the surface is superconformal or orthogonal to a harmonic congruence of spheres.
We discuss non-conformal harmonic surfaces in R3 with prescribed (±)transforms, and we get a representation formula for non-conformal harmonic surfaces in R3.
Minimal surfaces in harmonic conformally flat space are studied.
problem Minimal surfaces in harmonic conformally flat space.
method Variational geometry approach focusing on mean curvature and Willmore functionals.
result Critical points of mean curvature functional are homeomorphic to the sphere.
This study develops a NURBS-based method for conformal surface flattening without singularities.
problem Flatten surfaces conformally without singularities.
method NURBS-based approach with iterative refinement of input and flattening surfaces, leveraging nonlinear extension of VarPro.
result Developed a singularity-free NURBS-based method for conformal surface flattening.
Discrete conformal maps on surfaces with vertex decorations are studied.
problem Discrete conformal equivalence for decorated piecewise Euclidean surfaces.
method Intimate relationship between decorated PE-surfaces, canonical tessellations of hyperbolic surfaces, and convex hyperbolic polyhedra; concave variational principle.
result Proof of discrete uniformization theorem for decorated PE-surfaces.
In Part I, we develop the notions of a Moebius structure and a conformal Cartan geometry, establish an equivalence between them; we use them in Part II to study submanifolds of conformal manifolds in arbitrary dimension and codimension. We obtain Gauss-Codazzi-Ricci equations and a conformal Bonnet theorem characterizi…
Every nonflat conformal minimal surface is homotopic to a proper one.
problem Proving homotopy of nonflat conformal minimal surfaces to proper ones.
method Analyzing immersions and fluxes of Riemann surfaces into \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and \(\mathbb{C}^n\).
result Every nonflat conformal minimal immersion is homotopic to a proper one.
The paper studies quasi-umbilical timelike surfaces in a specific geometric setting.
problem Characterizing and understanding quasi-umbilical timelike surfaces in the (1+2)-Einstein universe. method Analyzes the conformal Lorentz geometry of these surfaces, proving their isothermic nature and constructing them from null curves.
result Quasi-umbilical surfaces are isothermic and their conformal deformations are determined by one arbitrary function.
Proper superminimal surfaces in hyperbolic 4-space can be approximated by conformal immersions.
problem Finding conformal superminimal surfaces in hyperbolic 4-space.
method Analysis of holomorphic Legendrian curves in the twistor space of H4. result Proper conformal superminimal immersions can be approximated by smooth ones.
Proves bijection between smooth conformal immersions and immersions.
problem Finding conformal immersions of closed Riemannian surfaces.
method Reformulated using h-principle and proved bijection on path connected components. result Induces a bijection between smooth conformal immersions and immersions.
The aim of this work is to adapt the complex analytic methods originating in modern Oka theory to the study of non-orientable conformal minimal surfaces in Rn for any n≥3. These methods, which we develop essentially from the first principles, enable us to prove that the space of conformal minimal immer…
Superintegrable systems on surfaces are classified geometrically.
problem Classifying superintegrable systems on conformal surfaces.
method Geometric structures on conformal surfaces, conformal covariant structural equations.
result Explicit set of algebraic equations defining superintegrable systems on all constant curvature surfaces.
The paper studies deformation of discrete conformal structures on surfaces using combinatorial curvature flows.
problem Finding piecewise constant curvature metrics on surfaces with prescribed combinatorial curvatures.
method Combinatorial curvature flows, including Ricci flow and Calabi flow, are applied to deform Glickenstein's discrete conformal structures.
result The solution of the combinatorial Ricci flow can be uniquely extended and converges exponentially fast for any initial value under certain conditions.
This paper proves compactness of conformal Chern-minimal surfaces in Hermitian surfaces.
problem Compactness of conformal Chern-minimal surfaces in Hermitian surfaces.
method Proves compactness through bubble tree limit analysis.
result Compactness of conformal Chern-minimal surfaces is established with bounded area.
Derives stress-energy identities in Liouville theory on compact surfaces.
problem Stress-energy tensor correlation functions on compact Riemann surfaces.
method Varying correlation functions with respect to background metric, treating different types of variations separately.
result Stress-energy correlation functions expressed as differential operators acting on primary field correlation functions.
Constrained Willmore surfaces are conformal immersions of Riemann surfaces that are critical points of the Willmore energy W=∫H2 under compactly supported infinitesimal conformal variations. Examples include all constant mean curvature surfaces in space forms. In this paper we investigate more generally the crit…
This is the first comprehensive introduction to the authors' recent attempts toward a better understanding of the global concepts behind spinor representations of surfaces in 3-space. The important new aspect is a quaternionic-valued function theory, whose "meromorphic functions" are conformal maps into quaternions, wh…
The current paper discusses some new results about conformal polynomic surface parameterizations. A new theorem is proved: Given a conformal polynomic surface parameterization of any degree it must be harmonic on each component. As a first geometrical application, every surface that admits a conformal polynomic paramet…
Conformal invariance plays a significant role in many areas of Physics, such as conformal field theory, renormalization theory, turbulence, general relativity. Naturally, it also plays an important role in geometry: theory of Riemannian surfaces, Weyl tensors, Q-curvature, Yang-Mills fields, etc... We shall be concer…
A Willmore surface y:M→Sn+2 has a natural harmonic oriented conformal Gauss map Gry:M→SO+(1,n+3)/SO(1,3)×SO(n), which maps each point p∈M to its oriented mean curvature 2-sphere at p. An easy observation shows that all conformal Gauss maps of Willmore surfaces satisfy a res…
Study of Demoulin surfaces using Gauss maps and conformal coordinates.
problem Characterizing Demoulin surfaces in real projective 3-space.
method Generalized Weierstrass type representation via primitive maps.
result Established a new representation for Demoulin surfaces.
We show that every Kato surface (or surface with a global spherical shell) admits a locally conformally Kaehler metric.
Study on discrete Gaussian curvature for polyhedral surfaces.
problem Discretization of Gaussian curvature for polyhedral surfaces.
method Generalization of discrete conformal equivalence to define discrete Gaussian curvature and classify polyhedral surfaces.
result Existence of polyhedral surfaces with constant discrete Gaussian curvature in every discrete conformal class.
Study on deforming discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundaries.
problem Deforming discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundaries.
method Introduce combinatorial Ricci flow and combinatorial Calabi flow, establish longtime existence and global convergence of solutions.
result Effective algorithms for finding discrete hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with totally geodesic boundaries of prescribed lengths.
Method computes harmonic and conformal maps from point clouds.
problem Computing maps from irregular point cloud data.
method Meshless method using cubic lattice approximations.
result Harmonic and conformal maps computed accurately.
New boundary and point constraints for controlling conformal surfaces.
problem Controlling the geometry of surfaces defined by minimizers of conformal variational problems.
method Introducing new boundary conditions, point constraints, and flux constraints to control the metric and conformal scale factor.
result Introduces intuitive controls for exploring a subspace of conformal immersions.
We study surfaces with decorations and prove uniformization in non-Euclidean geometries.
problem Discrete conformal equivalence in non-Euclidean geometries.
method Variational principle and continuous deformation.
result One master theory of discrete conformal equivalence across different geometries.
New discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary, proving global rigidity and constructing hyperbolic metrics.
problem Creating new discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary.
method Introducing new discrete conformal structures, proving global rigidity using variational principles, and introducing combinatorial curvature flows.
result Global rigidity of new discrete conformal structures and effective algorithms for constructing hyperbolic metrics.
We review the properties of the Morse-Novikov cohomology and compute it for all known compact complex surfaces with locally conformally Kähler metrics. We present explicit computations for the Inoue surfaces S0, S+, S− and classify the locally conformally Kähler (and the tamed loc…
It was proved by Graham and Witten in 1999 that conformal invariants of submanifolds can be obtained via volume renormalization of minimal surfaces in conformally compact Einstein manifolds. The conformal invariant of a submanifold Σ is contained in the volume expansion of the minimal surface which is asymptotic to $…
The paper studies anisotropic conformal changes in pseudo-Finsler surfaces.
problem Investigating geometric properties under anisotropic conformal transformations.
method Analyzing geometric objects like Berwald, Landsberg, and Douglas tensors under anisotropic conformal transformations.
result Necessary and sufficient conditions for various geometric properties under anisotropic conformal transformations.
The paper extends a method for numerical conformal mappings to surfaces using Laplace-Beltrami equations.
problem Computing conformal mappings between Riemannian surfaces.
method Adapting the conjugate function method to Riemannian surfaces using hp-adaptive finite element methods. result Highly accurate numerical computations of conformal mappings on surfaces, including complex geometries.