Study of rod packings in 3-torus using 3-manifold geometry.
problem Understanding crystal structures in crystallography through rod packings in 3-torus.
method Use of 3-manifold geometry and topology to analyze complements of rod packings.
result Find families of complements that are hyperbolic and Seifert fibred.
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.
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 proves a discrete Schwarz-Pick lemma for generalized circle packings.
problem Comparing geometric quantities of circle packings with different boundary values.
method Combinatorial Calabi flows and maximum principle.
result Discrete Schwarz-Pick lemma proven for generalized circle packings.
Paper calculates ball number of links using Lorentz geometry and circle packing.
problem Calculating the minimum number of balls needed to represent a link.
method Lorentz geometry and circle packing theorem applied to ball packings.
result Shows ball(L)≤5cr(L) for any link L. 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.
New theorem proves rigidity of circle packings in hyperbolic geometry.
problem Rigidity of circle packings in hyperbolic geometry.
method Established maximum principles and applied them to prove rigidity.
result Proved infinite rigidity of weighted Delaunay triangulations in the Poincaré disk.
Article explores Thurston's circle packing theorem in 3-manifold geometry.
problem Understanding Thurston's circle packing theorem in 3-manifold geometry.
method Analyzes the Koebe-Andre'ev-Thurston Theorem and its relation to Thurston's circle packing theorem.
result Illustrates the significance of Thurston's circle packing theorem in 3-manifold geometry.
Study on packing links with geometric constraints.
problem Maximizing link density in space with geometric restrictions.
method Investigates packing essential links within Euclidean space.
result Upper bounds on maximal density are found, but are large.
Solving polynomial equations finds circle packings on surfaces.
problem Finding circle packings on triangulated surfaces.
method Solving a system of polynomial equations associated with surface triangulations.
result Circle packings can be found by solving polynomial equations.
Paper constructs hyperbolic metrics using circle packings and curvature parameters.
problem Creating polyhedral metrics for surfaces of various topologies.
method Using circle packings and curvature parameters, the paper constructs hyperbolic polyhedral metrics.
result Unified approach to producing polyhedral metrics for surfaces of broader topological types.
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…
The paper studies circle packings on surfaces with boundary and their total geodesic curvatures.
problem Existence and rigidity of circle packings with conical singularities.
method Variational principle and combinatorial Ricci flow.
result Existence and rigidity of circle packings with prescribed total geodesic curvature.
Study circles to understand dynamics and rigidity in homogeneous spaces.
problem Understanding dynamics and rigidity in infinite-volume homogeneous spaces.
method Addressing four questions about circle packings.
result Highlighting the interplay between dynamics, geometry, and rigidity.
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.
Infinite circle packings on surfaces with conical singularities are possible.
problem Finding hyperbolic metrics with prescribed angles and circle packings on surfaces with punctures.
method Using infinite triangulations and hyperbolic metrics, the approach involves identifying the underlying Riemann surface and ensuring the circle packing combinatorics match the given triangulation.
result There are infinitely many conical hyperbolic structures in a conformal class with a circle packing in the combinatorics of a given triangulation.
Paper introduces combinatorial Ricci flows on infinite disk triangulations.
problem Discrete Ricci flows on infinite triangulations of the open disk.
method Combinatorial Ricci flows (CRFs) in Euclidean and hyperbolic geometries.
result Existence and uniqueness of CRFs, convergence results, uniformization theorem.
Complete classification of rod complements in 3-torus using topology.
problem Classifying rod complements in the 3-torus.
method Topological arguments.
result Complete classification of all rod complements in the 3-torus.
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.
We introduce the notion of a "crystallographic sphere packing," defined to be one whose limit set is that of a geometrically finite hyperbolic reflection group in one higher dimension. We exhibit for the first time an infinite family of conformally-inequivalent such with all radii being reciprocals of integers. We then…
The paper proves convergence of discrete maps to Riemann mappings for polyhedral surfaces.
problem Discrete conformal geometry of polyhedral surfaces.
method Establishing rigidity for hexagonal triangulations and estimating quasiconformal constants.
result Discrete conformal maps converge to Riemann mappings for Jordan domains.
Paper proves rigidity of discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces.
problem Rigidity of discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces.
method Variational principles.
result Proves Glickenstein's conjecture on the rigidity of discrete conformal structures.
Theory of packing diabolic domains in liquid crystals.
problem Understanding the packing of diabolic domains in liquid crystals.
method Lorentz transformations and geometric analysis.
result Diabolic domains can lower the elastic energy of the system.
Counting spheres in hyperbolic space with effective methods.
problem Counting spheres in Apollonian and Kleinian packings.
method Spectral methods and orbit counting, extending Kontorovich and Lax-Phillips techniques.
result Best-known effective error rate for sphere packing counting problems.
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.
Attempts to build a discrete theory for rational maps on the sphere via circle packing have foundered on discretization effects in locating branch points. The authors remove this impediment by introducing generalized branch points. A generalized branch point need no longer be attached to an individual circle, but with …
After having investigated the regular prisms and prism tilings in the $\SLR$ space in the previous work \cite{Sz13-1} of the second author, we consider the problem of geodesic ball packings related to those tilings and their symmetry groups pq21. $\SLR$ is one of the eight Thurston geometries that can be de…
Unique circle patterns on spheres found for spherical conical metrics.
problem Non-uniqueness in circle packing for spherical metrics.
method Prescribed geodesic total curvature instead of cone angles.
result Unique existence of circle patterns for spherical conical metrics.
Ricci flow deforms the Riemannian metric proportionally to the curvature, such that the curvature evolves according to a heat diffusion process and eventually becomes constant everywhere. Ricci flow has demonstrated its great potential by solving various problems in many fields, which can be hardly handled by alternati…
Develops Kleinian Sphere Packings and Bugs, proving their arithmetic origins.
problem Understanding sphere packings and their arithmetic origins in various dimensions.
method Introduces Kleinian Sphere Packings and Bugs, extending Arithmeticity Theorem.
result Kleinian packings and Bugs come from Q-arithmetic lattices of simplest type.
Proves rigidity of circle packings in the plane, generalizing previous work.
problem Rigidity of infinite inversive distance circle packings in the plane.
method Maximal principle for generic weighted Delaunay inversive distance circle packings and ring lemma for inversive distance circle packings in hexagonal triangulated plane.
result Proves Bowers-Stephenson's conjecture for inversive distance circle packings.
We relate Lq,p-cohomology of bounded geometry Riemannian manifolds to a purely metric space notion of ℓq,p-cohomology, packing cohomology. This implies quasi-isometry invariance of Lq,p-cohomology together with its multiplicative structure. The result partially extends to the Rumin Lq,p-cohomolog…
The paper studies rigidity of sphere packings on 3D manifolds with boundary.
problem Rigidity of sphere packings on 3D manifolds with boundary.
method Introduced generalized Thurston's sphere packings and proved their rigidity properties.
result Generalized Thurston's sphere packings are locally determined by combinatorial scalar curvatures and cannot be deformed while keeping combinatorial Ricci curvatures fixed.
The paper studies circle packings using renormalization and subdivision rules.
problem Characterizing and proving properties of circle packings with specific subdivision rules.
method Iterations of skinning maps on Teichmüller spaces, renormalization theory, subdivision rules.
result Uniformly contracting renormalization operator and geometric inflexibility of circle packings.
Analyzes packing of circles in bounded and unbounded planes using mathematical formulas.
problem Finding optimal radii for packing circles in various plane regions.
method Deterministic analytic formulae and recurrence relations.
result Formulated analytic formulae for 2D circle packing on various plane shapes.
Study generates infinite circle packings with a specific property.
problem Generating infinite circle packings with a unique property.
method Investigates an infinite family of circle packings and uses them to create Apollonian packings.
result Created an infinite set of circle packings with the Apollonian property.
New discrete cmc surfaces defined from sphere packings and combinatorics.
problem Creating constant mean curvature surfaces from discrete data.
method Discrete cmc surfaces defined via sphere packings and combinatorial patterns.
result Construction of discrete cmc surfaces from orthogonal ring patterns.
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.
A variant of Gromov's H{ö}lder-equivalence problem, motivated by a pinching problem in Riemannian geometry, is discussed. A partial result is given. The main tool is a general coarea inequality satisfied by packing energies of maps.
Paper proves circle packings converge to Riemann mapping for Jordan domains.
problem Proving discrete conformal maps converge to Riemann mapping.
method Establishing solvability theorem for inversive distance circle packings.
result Bowers-Stephenson's conjecture for Jordan domains is proven.
The paper extends the Discrete Schwarz-Pick Lemma to circle packings with obtuse intersections and disjoint packings.
problem Proving the Discrete Schwarz-Pick Lemma for circle packings with various inversive distances.
method Using a variational principle for circle packings with inversive distances, the paper extends the lemma to a broader range of packings.
result The Discrete Schwarz-Pick Lemma holds for circle packings with inversive distances in (−1,1], provided an additional condition on triangle weights. The paper solves the existence problem of sphere packings in higher dimensions.
problem Existence of crystallographic sphere packings in certain higher dimensions.
method Geometric doubling procedure and computations with Lorentzian quadratic forms.
result Solves the existence problem of crystallographic sphere packings in higher dimensions.
Projective rigidity of circle packings on complex surfaces proved.
problem Proving rigidity of circle packings on complex projective surfaces.
method Proved projective rigidity through triangulations and complex projective structures.
result Space of circle packings is projectively rigid on complex projective surfaces.
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.
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 …
Thurston's sphere packing on a 3-dimensional manifold is a generalization of Thusrton's circle packing on a surface, the rigidity of which has been open for many years. In this paper, we prove that Thurston's Euclidean sphere packing is locally determined by combinatorial scalar curvature up to scaling, which generaliz…
PackIt creates a virtual space for testing geometric planning skills.
problem Evaluating geometric planning abilities in virtual environments.
method Developed a virtual environment, PackIt, for geometric planning tasks.
result Demonstrated the effectiveness of various methods for geometric planning.
3D Ricci flows have bounded diameter before Type I singularities.
problem Bounding the diameter of 3D Ricci flows before Type I singularities.
method Introduced a neck-region concept and proved packing measure Ahlfors regularity.
result Uniformly bounded diameter up to Type I singular time.