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This article studies a particular process that approximates solutions of the Beltrami equation (straightening of ellipse fields, a.k.a. measurable Riemann mapping theorem) on $\mathbb{C}$. It passes through the introduction of a sequence of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Arnaud Chéritat , Guillaume Tahar

The conjugate function method is an algorithm for numerical computation of conformal mappings for simply and multiply connected domains. In this paper, the conjugate function method is extended to cover conformal mappings between Riemannian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Harri Hakula , Antti Rasila

Computing a quasi-developable strip surface bounded by design curves finds wide industrial applications. Existing methods compute discrete surfaces composed of developable lines connecting sampling points on input curves which are not…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Pengbo Bo , Yujian Zheng , Caiming Zhang

A discrete conformal map (DCM) maps the square lattice to the Riemann sphere such that the image of every irreducible square has the same cross-ratio. This paper shows that every periodic DCM can be determined from spectral data (a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-16 U. Hertrich-Jeromin , I. McIntosh , P. Norman , F. Pedit

Discrete conformal mappings based on circle packing, vertex scaling, and related structures has had significant activity since Thurston proposed circle packing as a way to approximate conformal maps in the 1980s. The first convergence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-06 David Glickenstein , Lee Sidbury

We present a new and simple proof of Teichm\"uller-Wittich-Belinskii's and Gutlyanskii-Martio's theorems on the conformality of quasiconformal mappings at a given point. Known proofs gave separate estimates for the radial and angular…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Mitsuhiro Shishikura

In medical imaging, surface registration is extensively used for performing systematic comparisons between anatomical structures, with a prime example being the highly convoluted brain cortical surfaces. To obtain a meaningful registration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yuchen Guo , Qiguang Chen , Gary P. T. Choi , Lok Ming Lui

Trace finite element methods have become a popular option for solving surface partial differential equations, especially in problems where surface and bulk effects are coupled. In such methods a surface mesh is formed by approximately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-22 Alan Demlow

We present a survey of the many and various elements of the modern higher-dimensional theory of quasiconformal mappings and their wide and varied application. It is unified (and limited) by the theme of the author's interests. Thus we will…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-11-06 Gaven J. Martin

In shape analysis, finding an optimal 1-1 correspondence between surfaces within a large class of admissible bijective mappings is of great importance. Such process is called surface registration. The difficulty lies in the fact that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-19 L. M. Lui , T. W. Wong , W. Zeng , X. F. Gu , P. M. Thompson , T. F. Chan , S. T. Yau

We establish a uniformization result for metric surfaces - metric spaces that are topological surfaces with locally finite Hausdorff 2-measure. Using the geometric definition of quasiconformality, we show that a metric surface that can be…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-09-20 Toni Ikonen

Surface registration is one of the most fundamental problems in geometry processing. Many approaches have been developed to tackle this problem in cases where the surfaces are nearly isometric. However, it is much more challenging to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Stefan C. Schonsheck , Michael M. Bronstein , Rongjie Lai

Free-boundary diffeomorphism optimization, an important and widely occurring task in geometric modeling, computer graphics, and biological imaging, requires simultaneously determining a planar target domain and a locally bijective map with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zhehao Xu , Lok Ming Lui

We explore the interplay between different definitions of distortion for mappings $f\colon X\to \mathbb{R}^2$, where $X$ is any metric surface, meaning that $X$ is homeomorphic to a domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and has locally finite…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Damaris Meier , Kai Rajala

Eigenvalue problems are fundamental to mathematics and science. We present a simple algorithm for determining eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace--Beltrami operator on rather general curved surfaces. Our algorithm, which is based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Colin B. Macdonald , Jeremy Brandman , Steven J. Ruuth

We develop a universal distributional calculus for regulated volumes of metrics that are singular along hypersurfaces. When the hypersurface is a conformal infinity we give simple integrated distribution expressions for the divergences and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-03 A. Rod Gover , Andrew Waldron

In this paper we consider an inverse problem of determining a minimal surface embedded in a Riemannian manifold. We show under a topological condition that if $\Sigma$ is a $2$-dimensional embedded minimal surface, then the knowledge of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Cătălin I. Cârstea , Matti Lassas , Tony Liimatainen , Leo Tzou

In the theory of Teichm\"uller space of Riemann surfaces, we consider the set of Riemann surfaces which are quasiconformally equivalent. For topologically finite Riemann surfaces, it is quite easy to examine if they are quasiconformally…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Hiroshige Shiga

Conformal mapping, a classical topic in complex analysis and differential geometry, has become a subject of great interest in the area of surface parameterization in recent decades with various applications in science and engineering.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Gary P. T. Choi

A quasisymmetric graph is a curve whose projection onto a line is a quasisymmetric map. We show that this class of curves is related to solutions of the reduced Beltrami equation and to a generalization of the Zygmund class $\Lambda_*$.…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Leonid V. Kovalev , Jani Onninen