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Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Zhiwen Xiong , Xu Xu

We consider the problem of deforming a one-parameter family of hypersurfaces immersed into closed Riemannian manifolds with positive curvature operator. The hypersurface in this family satisfies mean curvature flow while the ambient metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Weimin Sheng , Haobin Yu

In this paper, we introduce combinatorial Ricci flows (CRFs in short) in Euclidean and hyperbolic background geometries on infinite triangulations of the open disk, which are discrete analogs of Ricci flows on simply connected open…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Huabin Ge , Bobo Hua , Puchun Zhou

We consider classical curvature flows: 1-parameter families of convex embeddings of the 2-sphere into Euclidean 3-space which evolve by an arbitrary (non-homogeneous) function of the radii of curvature. The associated flow of the radii of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

For triangulated surfaces locally embedded in the standard hyperbolic space, we introduce combinatorial Calabi flow as the negative gradient flow of combinatorial Calabi energy. We prove that the flow produces solutions which converge to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Huabin Ge , Xu Xu

We show that there exists a suitable neighborhood of a constant curvature hyperbolic metric such that, for all initial data in this neighborhood, the corresponding solution to a normalized cross curvature flow exists for all time and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-06 Dan Knopf , Andrea Young

We investigate the combinatorial Ricci flow on a surface of nonpositive Euler characteristic when the necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence of the combinatorial Ricci flow is not valid. This observation addresses one of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Asuka Takatsu

For triangulated surfaces and any $p>1$, we introduce the combinatorial $p$-th Calabi flow which precisely equals the combinatorial Calabi flows first introduced in H. Ge's thesis when $p=2$. The difficulties for the generalizations come…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Aijin Lin , Xiaoxiao Zhang

Discrete conformal structure on polyhedral surfaces is a discrete analogue of the smooth conformal structure on surfaces that assigns discrete metrics by scalar functions defined on vertices. In this paper, we introduce combinatorial…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

Generalized circle packings were introduced in \cite{Ba-Hu-Sun} as a generalization of tangential circle packings in hyperbolic background geometry. In this paper, we introduce the combinatorial Calabi flow, fractional combinatorial Calabi…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Te Ba , Chao Zheng

A comparison theorem for the isoperimetric profile on the universal cover of surfaces evolving by normalised Ricci flow is proven. For any initial metric, a model comparison is constructed that initially lies below the profile of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-24 Paul Bryan

In his seminal work \cite{Ri96}, Rivin characterized finite ideal polyhedra in three-dimensional hyperbolic space. However, the characterization of infinite ideal polyhedra, as proposed by Rivin, has remained a long-standing open problem.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Huabin Ge , Bobo Hua , Hao Yu , Puchun Zhou

We show that the analog of Hamilton's Ricci flow in the combinatorial setting produces solutions which converge exponentially fast to Thurston's circle packing on surfaces. As a consequence, a new proof of Thurston's existence of circle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bennett Chow , Feng Luo

For triangulated surfaces, we introduce the combinatorial Calabi flow which is an analogue of smooth Calabi flow. We prove that the solution of combinatorial Calabi flow exists for all time. Moreover, the solution converges if and only if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Huabin Ge

Glickenstein introduced the discrete conformal structures on polyhedral surfaces in an axiomatic approach from Riemannian geometry perspective. It includes Thurston's circle packings, Bowers-Stephenson's inversive distance circle packings…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Xu Xu

We study the subsequential convergence of singular solutions to the Ricci flow with prescribed constant in space geodesic curvature on compact surfaces with boundary. Furthermore, we show that in the particular case of rotational symmetry,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Jean C. Cortissoz , Juan J. Villamarín

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…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

In this paper, we investigate the mean curvature flow of submanifolds of arbitrary codimension in $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^m$. We prove that if the initial submanifold satisfies a pinching condition, then the mean curvature flow converges to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Li Lei , Hongwei Xu

In this paper, we prove that if the initial submanifold $M_0$ of dimension $n(\ge6)$ satisfies an optimal pinching condition, then the mean curvature flow of arbitrary codimension in hyperbolic spaces converges to a round point in finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Li Lei , Hongwei Xu

In this paper, we adopt combinatorial Ricci curvature flow methods to study the existence of cusped hyperbolic structure on 3-manifolds with torus boundary. For general pseudo 3-manifolds, we prove the long-time existence and the uniqueness…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Ke Feng , Huabin Ge , Bobo Hua