The paper develops algorithms for finding metrics with prescribed combinatorial curvature on polyhedral surfaces.
problem Finding metrics with prescribed combinatorial curvature on polyhedral surfaces.
method Discrete uniformization theorem, combinatorial α-Yamabe flow, combinatorial α-Calabi flow, edge flipping surgery.
result Longtime existence and convergence of combinatorial α-Yamabe flow and combinatorial α-Calabi flow with surgery.
The paper introduces combinatorial curvature and flow for polyhedral surfaces, proving rigidity and solving the Yamabe problem.
problem Discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces and their rigidity.
method Parameterized combinatorial curvature, combinatorial α-Ricci flow, and flow extension through singularities.
result Existence and convergence of combinatorial α-Ricci flow for solving the Yamabe problem.
New method finds metrics on surfaces with prescribed curvatures using circle packings and surgery.
problem Finding piecewise Euclidean metrics on surfaces with prescribed combinatorial curvatures.
method Combinatorial curvature flows with surgery for inversive distance circle packings.
result Longtime existence and global convergence of combinatorial curvature flows with surgery.
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.
The paper establishes a discrete uniformization theorem for surfaces with piecewise hyperbolic metrics.
problem Finding decorated piecewise hyperbolic metrics with prescribed combinatorial curvature.
method Introduced combinatorial α-Ricci flow with surgery to handle potential singularities and prove longtime existence and convergence.
result Existence of decorated piecewise hyperbolic metrics with prescribed combinatorial α-curvature.
Paper introduces new flows to find circle packings with specific curvature.
problem Finding circle packings with prescribed total geodesic curvatures.
method Introduces combinatorial Calabi flow, fractional combinatorial Calabi flow, and combinatorial p-th Calabi flow.
result Establishes conditions for the longtime behaviors of these flows.
Paper resolves spherical curvature flow problem.
problem Existence of ideal circle patterns in spherical background geometry.
method Introduces a combinatorial geodesic curvature flow in spherical background geometry.
result Characterizes sufficient and necessary conditions for flow convergence.
In this paper, we introduce a new combinatorial curvature on triangulated surfaces with inversive distance circle packing metrics. Then we prove that this combinatorial curvature has global rigidity. To study the Yamabe problem of the new curvature, we introduce a combinatorial Ricci flow, along which the curvature evo…
Study infinite combinatorial Ricci flow on spherical surfaces.
problem Investigate infinite combinatorial Ricci flow with spherical background.
method Establish existence and convergence of solution for infinite cellular decompositions.
result Existence and convergence of solution for infinite combinatorial Ricci flow in spherical geometry.
In this paper, we introduce two discrete curvature flows, which are called α-flows on two and three dimensional triangulated manifolds. For triangulated surface M, we introduce a new normalization of combinatorial Ricci flow (first introduced by Bennett Chow and Feng Luo \cite{CL1}), aiming at evolving α order di…
We introduce a combinatorial curvature flow for PL metrics on compact triangulated 3-manifolds with boundary consisting of surfaces of negative Euler characteristic. The flow tends to find the complete hyperbolic metric with totally geodesic boundary on a manifold. Some of the basic properties of the combinatorial flow…
The paper finds hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with boundary using combinatorial curvature flows.
problem Finding hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with totally geodesic boundaries of prescribed lengths.
method Introducing combinatorial Ricci flow and combinatorial Calabi flow for generalized circle packings.
result Proves longtime existence and global convergence of combinatorial curvature flows.
The paper studies rigid sphere packings on 3D manifolds with boundary.
problem Investigating rigid sphere packings on 3D manifolds with boundary.
method Introducing generalized sphere packings, proving rigidity, introducing combinatorial curvature flows.
result Generalized sphere packing metrics are determined by combinatorial scalar curvature.
We define Discrete Quasi-Einstein metrics (DQE-metrics) as the critical points of discrete total curvature functional on triangulated 3-manifolds. We study DQE-metrics by introducing some combinatorial curvature flows. We prove that these flows produce solutions which converge to discrete quasi-Einstein metrics when th…
For triangulated surfaces locally embedded in the standard hyperbolic space, we introduce combinatorial Calabi flow as the negative gradient flow of combinatorial Calabi energy. We prove that the flow produces solutions which converge to ZCCP-metric (zero curvature circle packing metric) if the initial energy is small …
New method finds ideal circle patterns on spheres.
problem Finding ideal circle patterns on spheres with prescribed curvatures.
method Combinatorial Calabi flow in spherical geometry.
result Existence and convergence of the flow for ideal circle patterns.
For triangulated surfaces, we introduce the combinatorial Calabi flow which is an analogue of smooth Calabi flow. We prove that the solution of combinatorial Calabi flow exists for all time. Moreover, the solution converges if and only if Thurston's circle packing exists. As a consequence, combinatorial Calabi flow pro…
The paper studies the combinatorial p-th Calabi flow for finite and infinite circle patterns.
problem Establishing convergence and long-time existence of the combinatorial p-th Calabi flow.
method Combinatorial p-th Calabi flow for finite and infinite ideal circle patterns.
result Sharp criterion for convergence in finite case and long-time existence in infinite case for p≥2. 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 investigate the properties of the combinatorial Ricci flow for surfaces, both forward and backward -- existence, uniqueness and singularities formation. We show that the positive results that exist for the smooth Ricci flow also hold for the combinatorial one and that, moreover, the same results hold for a more gene…
The paper introduces combinatorial Calabi flows to find hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with boundary.
problem Finding hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with totally geodesic boundaries of given lengths.
method Introducing combinatorial Calabi flows and proving their long time existence and global convergence.
result Proves the long time existence and global convergence of combinatorial Calabi flow on surfaces with boundary.
In this paper we develop an approach to conformal geometry of piecewise flat metrics on manifolds. In particular, we formulate the combinatorial Yamabe problem for piecewise flat metrics. In the case of surfaces, we define the combinatorial Yamabe flow on the space of all piecewise flat metrics associated to a triangul…
This article studies a discrete geometric structure on triangulated manifolds and an associated curvature flow (combinatorial Yamabe flow). The associated evolution of curvature appears to be like a heat equation on graphs, but it can be shown to not satisfy the maximum principle. The notion of a parabolic-like operato…
The paper applies combinatorial Ricci flows to prove hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds.
problem Proving the existence of hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds with cusps.
method Combinatorial Ricci curvature flow methods to study pseudo 3-manifolds and ideal triangulations.
result The extended Ricci flow converges to a decorated hyperbolic polyhedral metric if and only if there exists a zero Ricci curvature metric.
Study of combinatorial Calabi flow on ideal circle patterns.
problem Finding ideal circle patterns with prescribed curvatures.
method Combinatorial Calabi flow in hyperbolic and Euclidean geometry.
result Flow converges exponentially to ideal circle patterns.
We study the 3-dimensional combinatorial Yamabe flow in hyperbolic background geometry. For a triangulation of a 3-manifold, we prove that if the number of tetrahedra incident to each vertex is at least 23, then there exist real or virtual ball packings with vanishing (extended) combinatorial scalar curvature, i.e. the…
A combinatorial version of Yamabe flow is presented based on Euclidean triangulations coming from sphere packings. The evolution of curvature is then derived and shown to satisfy a heat equation. The Laplacian in the heat equation is shown to be a geometric analogue of the Laplacian of Riemannian geometry, although the…
For triangulated surfaces and any p>1, we introduce the combinatorial p-th Calabi flow which precisely equals the combinatorial Calabi flows first introduced in H. Ge's thesis when p=2. The difficulties for the generalizations come from the nonlinearity of the p-th flow equation when p=2. Adopting differe…
Paper solves degenerated circle pattern metric problem in spherical geometry.
problem Existence and rigidity of (degenerated) circle pattern metrics with prescribed total geodesic curvatures.
method Defined prescribed combinatorial Ricci flows and studied their convergence.
result First degenerated result for total geodesic curvatures in spherical background geometry.
In this paper, we study the geometric aspects of ball packings on (M,T), where T is a triangulation on a 3-manifold M. We introduce a combinatorial Yamabe invariant YT, depending on the topology of M and the combinatoric of T. We prove that YT is att…
In this paper, we introduce a new combinatorial curvature on two and three dimensional triangulated manifolds, which transforms in the same way as that of the smooth scalar curvature under scaling of the metric and could be used to approximate the Gauss curvature on two dimensional manifolds. Then we use the flow metho…
Proves existence of circle patterns on surfaces with cusps.
problem Existence of circle patterns with prescribed angles on surfaces with cusps.
method Introduced combinatorial Ricci and Calabi flows to prove longtime existence and convergence.
result Existence of generalized circle patterns with prescribed angles on surfaces with cusps.
In this paper, we generalize our results in \cite{GX3} to triangulated surfaces in hyperbolic background geometry, which means that all triangles can be embedded in the standard hyperbolic space. We introduce a new discrete Gaussian curvature by dividing the classical discrete Gauss curvature by an area element, which …
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.
The paper finds circle packings with specific curvatures in hyperbolic geometry.
problem Finding circle packings with prescribed total geodesic curvatures and discrete Gaussian curvatures.
method Established existence and rigidity via variational principle, introduced combinatorial p-th Calabi flows.
result Introduced combinatorial p-th Calabi flows to find circle packings with prescribed curvatures.
Fractional combinatorial flow improves surface conformal structures.
problem Improving discrete conformal structures on surfaces.
method Introducing a fractional combinatorial Calabi flow for discrete conformal structures on surfaces.
result Longtime existence and global convergence of the fractional combinatorial Calabi flow for various surface types.
Flow on weighted graphs sharpens Bakry-Émery curvature.
problem Sharp curvature in weighted graphs.
method Bakry-Émery curvature flow on mixed weighted graphs.
result Limits of curvature flow are curvature sharp.
Combinatorial Ricci flow finds hyperbolic metrics on 3-manifolds.
problem Finding complete hyperbolic metrics on cusped 3-manifolds.
method Analogue of surface and compact 3-manifold flows, minimizing co-volume, extending through singularities.
result Existence of complete hyperbolic metric is equivalent to flow convergence.
This paper studies the combinatorial Yamabe flow on hyperbolic surfaces with boundary. It is proved by applying a variational principle that the length of boundary components is uniquely determined by the combinatorial conformal factor. The combinatorial Yamabe flow is a gradient flow of a concave function. The long ti…
The paper solves fractional combinatorial flows for prescribed hyperbolic bordered surfaces.
problem Finding hyperbolic bordered surfaces with prescribed boundary lengths.
method Fractional combinatorial Calabi flow and generalized combinatorial Yamabe flow.
result The flows converge to a hyperbolic surface with prescribed boundary lengths.
The paper introduces branched α-flows on surfaces with negative Euler characteristic and proves their long-term existence and convergence.
problem Long-term behavior and convergence of branched α-flows on surfaces with negative Euler characteristic.
method Introducing branched α-flows and proving their long-term existence and convergence based on the strict convexity of branched α-potentials.
result Established the long time existence and convergence of branched α-flows on closed surfaces with \( \chi \leq 0 \).
Paper proves Luo's conjecture for 3D triangulated manifolds.
problem Finding hyperbolic metrics on compact 3-manifolds with boundary.
method Introduced and extended combinatorial Ricci flow to handle singularities.
result Proved Luo's conjecture affirmatively for ideal triangulations.
Paper studies degenerated circle packings in hyperbolic geometry and finds conditions for their existence.
problem Whether a prescribed total geodesic curvature can be realized by a degenerated circle packing.
method Introduced combinatorial Ricci flow to find the desired degenerated circle packed surface, analogous to Chow-Luo and Takatsu methods.
result Fully characterized sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of degenerated circle packings and showed their uniqueness.
The paper extends circle pattern flows to hyperbolic and Euclidean geometry.
problem Extending circle pattern flows to hyperbolic and Euclidean geometry.
method Proving the existence and exponential convergence of combinatorial Calabi flows for ideal circle patterns.
result The solution to combinatorial Calabi flows converges exponentially fast to a flat cone metric.
Computing uniformization maps for surfaces has been a challenging problem and has many practical applications. In this paper, we provide a theoretically rigorous algorithm to compute such maps via combinatorial Calabi flow for vertex scaling of polyhedral metrics on surfaces, which is an analogue of the combinatorial Y…
We investigate the combinatorial Ricci flow on a surface of nonpositive Euler characteristic when the necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence of the combinatorial Ricci flow is not valid. This observation addresses one of questions raised by B. Chow and F. Luo.
Given a triangulated surface M, we use Ge-Xu's α-flow \cite{Ge-Xu1} to deform any initial inversive distance circle packing metric to a metric with constant α-curvature. More precisely, we prove that the inversive distance circle packing with constant α-curvature is unique if αχ(M)≤0, which generalize And…
Study combinatorial Yamabe flow on infinite triangulated surfaces.
problem Solve discrete Yamabe problem on noncompact surfaces.
method Introduced and analyzed combinatorial Yamabe flow with short-time and long-time existence proofs.
result Established short-time and long-time existence of the flow, and proved convergence in hexagonal triangulations.