Combinatorial Yamabe Flow on Surfaces

dc.creatorLuo, Feng
dc.date2003-06-10
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:58:43Z
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dc.descriptionIn 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 triangulated surface. We show that the flow either develops removable singularities or converges exponentially fast to a constant combinatorial curvature metric. If the singularity develops, we show that the singularity is always removable by a surgery procedure on the triangulation. We conjecture that after finitely many such surgery changes on the triangulation, the flow converges to the constant combinatorial curvature metric as time approaches infinity.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306167
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306167
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/67756
dc.subjectGeometric Topology
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subject53C44
dc.titleCombinatorial Yamabe Flow on Surfaces
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