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In this paper, maximum principles for Euclidean and hyperbolic discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces are established. These maximum principles unify and generalize the maximum principles for vertex scalings and different…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Yanwen Luo , Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

We study the infinitesimal rigidity of equivariant minimal maps from the universal cover of a smooth oriented surface (possibly non-compact) into a Riemannian symmetric space, focusing on representations arising from cyclic harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Qiongling Li , Junming Zhang

We prove that a 3-dimensional hyperbolic cusp with convex polyhedral boundary is uniquely determined by the metric induced on its boundary. Furthemore, any hyperbolic metric on the torus with cone singularities of positive curvature can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 François Fillastre , Ivan Izmestiev

A differential operator introduced by A. Gray on the unit sphere bundle of a K\"ahler-Einstein manifold is studied. A lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian for the Sasaki metric on the unit sphere bundle of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Stuart James Hall , Thomas Murphy

We aim to give a strict proof of the existence and uniqueness of the weighted Voronoi decomposition and the dual weighted Delaunay triangulation on Euclidean and hyperbolic polyhedral surface as well as hyperbolic surface with geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Xiang Zhu

Topology and geometry are deeply intertwined in the study of surfaces, though their interaction manifests differently in smooth and discrete settings. In the smooth category, a classical result asserts that any closed smooth surface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Soto Hisakawa , Shizuo Kaji , Ryo Kawai

Let P be a locally finite disk pattern on the complex plane C whose combinatorics are described by the one-skeleton G of a triangulation of the open topological disk and whose dihedral angles are equal to a function \Theta:E\to [0,\pi/2] on…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Zheng-Xu He

A spherical polyhedron surface is a triangulated surface obtained by isometric gluing of spherical triangles. For instance, the boundary of a generic convex polytope in the 3-sphere is a spherical polyhedron surface. This paper investigates…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Feng Luo

The paper proves a result on the convergence of discrete conformal maps to the Riemann mappings for Jordan domains. It is a counterpart of Rodin-Sullivan's theorem on convergence of circle packing mappings to the Riemann mapping in the new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Feng Luo , Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu

We prove that every three-dimensional polyhedron is uniquely determined by its dihedral angles and edge lengths, even if nonconvex or self-intersecting, under two plausible sufficient conditions: (i) the polyhedron has only convex faces and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Yunhi Cho , Seonhwa Kim

Recently, Connelly and Gortler gave a novel proof of the circle packing theorem for tangency packings by introducing a hybrid combinatorial-geometric operation, flip-and-flow, that allows two tangency packings whose contact graphs differ by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-07 John C. Bowers

We discuss a notion of discrete conformal equivalence for decorated piecewise euclidean surfaces (PE-surface), that is, PE-surfaces with a choice of circle about each vertex. It is closely related to inversive distance and hyperideal circle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Alexander I. Bobenko , Carl O. R. Lutz

The determination of the gravitational potential by the polyhedral method is revisited in the case where the surface of a body is composed of triangular facets. Based upon six test-shapes of astrophysical interest (sphere, spheroid,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jean-Marc Huré

We study circle packings with the combinatorics of a triangulated disk in the plane and parametrize deformations of circle packings in terms of vertex rotation and cross ratios. We show that there is a Weierstrass representation formula…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Wai Yeung Lam

Since Thurston pioneered the connection between circle packing (abbr. CP) and three-dimensional geometric topology, the characterization of CPs and hyperbolic polyhedra has become increasingly profound. Some milestones have been achieved,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Huabin Ge , Longsong Jia , Hao Yu , Puchun Zhou

In this paper we review some recent results concerning inverse problems for thin elastic plates. The plate is assumed to be made by non-homogeneous linearly elastic material belonging to a general class of anisotropy. A first group of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-28 Antonino Morassi , Edi Rosset , Sergio Vessella

We establish a connection between two previously unrelated topics: a particular discrete version of conformal geometry for triangulated surfaces, and the geometry of ideal polyhedra in hyperbolic three-space. Two triangulated surfaces are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Alexander Bobenko , Ulrich Pinkall , Boris Springborn

We use the weighted Hsiung-Minkowski integral formulas and Brendle's inequality to show new rigidity results. First, we prove Alexandrov type results for closed embedded hypersurfaces with radially symmetric higher order mean curvature in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Hojoo Lee , Juncheol Pyo

In this paper, we introduce the discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary in an axiomatic approach, which ensures that the Poincar\'{e} dual of an ideally triangulated surface with boundary has a good geometric structure.Then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

Glickenstein \cite{Glickenstein} and Glickenstein-Thomas \cite{GT} introduced the discrete conformal structures on surfaces in an axiomatic approach and studied its classification. In this paper, we give a full classification of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng