A Maximum Principle for Combinatorial Yamabe Flow

dc.creatorGlickenstein, David
dc.date2002-11-13
dc.date2005-06-10
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:52:52Z
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dc.descriptionThis 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 operator is introduced as an operator which satisfies the maximum principle, but may not be parabolic in the usual sense of operators on graphs. A maximum principle is derived for the curvature of combinatorial Yamabe flow under certain assumptions on the triangulation, and hence the heat operator is shown to be parabolic-like. The maximum principle then allows a characterization of the curvature as well was a proof of long term existence of the flow.
dc.description20 pages, this is an almost entirely different paper. Some elements of the old version are in the paper arxiv:math.MG/0506182
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211195
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211195
dc.identifierTopology 44 (2005) 809-825
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/65629
dc.subjectMetric Geometry
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subject52C26
dc.titleA Maximum Principle for Combinatorial Yamabe Flow
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