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The present work constitutes the third installment in a series of investigations devoted to discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary. In our preceding works \cite{X-Z DCS1, X-Z DCS2}, we established, respectively, a…

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A discrete conformality for polyhedral metrics on surfaces is introduced in this paper which generalizes earlier work on the subject. It is shown that each polyhedral metric on a surface is discrete conformal to a constant curvature…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-18 Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo , Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu

We consider the generalization of classical Blaschke's Problem to higher codimension case, characterizing Darboux pair of isothermic surfaces and dual S-Willmore surfaces as the only non-trivial surface pairs that envelop a 2-sphere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-26 Xiang Ma

The multiplier spectral curve of a conformal torus in the 4-sphere is essentially, see arXiv:0712.2311, given by all Darboux transforms of the conformal torus. In the particular case when the conformal immersion is a Hamiltonian stationary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-12 K. Leschke , P. Romon

This paper proposes a new framework and algorithms to address the problem of diffeomorphic registration on a general class of geometric objects that can be described as discrete distributions of local direction vectors. It builds on both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Hsi-Wei Hsieh , Nicolas Charon

Continuous image morphing is a classical task in image processing. The metamorphosis model proposed by Trouv\'e, Younes and coworkers casts this problem in the frame of Riemannian geometry and geodesic paths between images. The associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-27 Alexander Effland , Sebastian Neumayer , Martin Rumpf

In this paper we study Moebius applicable surfaces, i.e., conformally immersed surfaces in Moebius 3-space which admit deformations preserving the Moebius metric. We show new characterizations of Willmore surfaces, Bonnet surfaces and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Atsushi Fujioka , Jun-ichi Inoguchi

3 pages presentation of the theory of discrete conformal parameterization using circle patterns or its linearized theory. Principal results and ideas.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-02-12 Christian Mercat

Using a quaternionic calculus, the Christoffel, Darboux, Goursat, and spectral transformations for discrete isothermic nets are described, with their interrelations. The Darboux and spectral transformations are used to define discrete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Udo Hertrich-Jeromin

Using symplectic topology and the Radon transform, we prove that smooth 4-dimensional projective planes are diffeomorphic to $\mathbb{CP}^2$. We define the notion of a plane curve in a smooth projective plane, show that plane curves in high…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-29 Benjamin McKay

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Jie Qing , Changping Wang , Jingyang Zhong

We consider integrable discretizations of some soliton equations associated with the motions of plane curves: the Wadati-Konno-Ichikawa elastic beam equation, the complex Dym equation, and the short pulse equation. They are related to the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-05-28 Bao-Feng Feng , Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Kenji Kajiwara , Ken-ichi Maruno , Yasuhiro Ohta

A piecewise constant curvature manifold is a triangulated manifold that is assigned a geometry by specifying lengths of edges and stipulating that for a chosen background geometry (Euclidean, hyperbolic, or spherical), each simplex has an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-07-29 David Glickenstein , Joseph Thomas

A novel class of discrete integrable surfaces is recorded. This class of discrete O surfaces is shown to include discrete analogues of classical surfaces such as isothermic, `linear' Weingarten, Guichard and Petot surfaces. Moreover,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 W. K. Schief

Reparametrization invariant Sobolev metrics on spaces of regular curves have been shown to be of importance in the field of mathematical shape analysis. For practical applications, one usually discretizes the space of smooth curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Jonathan Cerqueira , Emmanuel Hartman , Eric Klassen , Martin Bauer

In this paper we define and study a notion of discrete homology theory for metric spaces. Instead of working with simplicial homology, our chain complexes are given by Lipschitz maps from an $n$-dimensional cube to a fixed metric space. We…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Helene Barcelo , Valerio Capraro , Jacob A. White

We consider surfaces immersed in three-dimensional pseudohermitian manifolds. We define the notion of (p-)mean curvature and of the associated (p-)minimal surfaces, extending some concepts previously given for the (flat) Heisenberg group.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-16 Jih-Hsin Cheng , Jenn-Fang Hwang , Andrea Malchiodi , Paul Yang

Discrete differential geometry aims to develop discrete equivalents of the geometric notions and methods of classical differential geometry. In this survey we discuss the following two fundamental Discretization Principles: the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Alexander I. Bobenko , Yuri B. Suris

We prove that the discrete harmonic function corresponding to smooth Dirichlet boundary conditions on orthodiagonal maps, that is, plane graphs having quadrilateral faces with orthogonal diagonals, converges to its continuous counterpart as…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Ori Gurel-Gurevich , Daniel C. Jerison , Asaf Nachmias

Group based moving frames have a wide range of applications, from the classical equivalence problems in differential geometry to more modern applications such as computer vision. Here we describe what we call a discrete group based moving…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-12-24 Elizabeth Mansfield , Gloria Marí Beffa , Jing Ping Wang