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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…

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

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

We introduce a new class of discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary, which have nice interpolations in 3-dimensional hyperbolic geometry. Then we prove the global rigidity of the new discrete conformal structures using…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-11 Xu Xu

Using the fractional discrete Laplace operator for triangle meshes, we introduce a fractional combinatorial Calabi flow for discrete conformal structures on surfaces, which unifies and generalizes Chow-Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow for…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Tianqi Wu , Xu 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

In this paper, we establish a framework for the analysis of linear parabolic equations on conical surfaces and use them to study the conical Ricci flow. In particular, we prove the long time existence of the conical Ricci flow for general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Hao Yin

In this paper, we generalize our results in \cite{GX3} to triangulated surfaces in hyperbolic background geometry, which means that all triangles can be embedded in the standard hyperbolic space. We introduce a new discrete Gaussian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 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

This paper investigates a kind of degenerated circle packings in hyperbolic background geometry. A main problem is whether a prescribed total geodesic curvature data can be realized by a degenerated circle packing or not. We fully…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Guangming Hu , Sicheng Lu , Dong Tan , Youliang Zhong , Puchun Zhou

In this paper, we study a combinatorial Ricci flow on closed pseudo $3$-manifolds $(M,\mathcal{T})$. We prove that if every edge in the triangulation $\mathcal{T}$ has valence at least $9$, then the combinatorial Ricci flow converges…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Xinrong Zhao

This paper studies the combinatorial Yamabe flow on hyperbolic bordered surfaces. We show that the flow exists for all time and converges exponentially fast to conformal factor which produces a hyperbolic surface whose lengths of boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Shengyu Li , Xu Xu , Ze Zhou

We prove global existence of instantaneously complete Yamabe flows on hyperbolic space of arbitrary dimension $m\geq3$. The initial metric is assumed to be conformally hyperbolic with conformal factor and scalar curvature bounded from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Mario B. Schulz

Combinatorial Ricci flow on a cusped $3$-manifold is an analogue of Chow-Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow on surfaces and Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow on compact $3$-manifolds with boundary for finding complete hyperbolic metrics on cusped…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Xu Xu

We investigate the properties of the combinatorial Ricci flow for surfaces, both forward and backward -- existence, uniqueness and singularities formation. We show that the positive results that exist for the smooth Ricci flow also hold for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Emil Saucan

In hyperbolic background geometry, we investigate a generalized circle packing (including circles, horocycles and hypercycles) with conical singularities on a surface with boundary, which has a total geodesic curvature on each generalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Guangming Hu , Ziping Lei , Yi Qi , Puchun Zhou

Thurston's triangulation conjecture asserts that every hyperbolic 3-manifold admits a geometric decomposition into ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra, a result proven only for certain special 3-manifolds. This paper presents combinatorial Ricci…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Feng Ke , Ge Huabin

As part of the general investigation of Ricci flow on complete surfaces with finite total curvature, we study this flow for surfaces with asymptotically conical (which includes as a special case asymptotically Euclidean) geometries. After…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-30 James Isenberg , Rafe Mazzeo , Natasa Sesum

In this paper the authors study the hyperbolic geometric flow on Riemann surfaces. This new nonlinear geometric evolution equation was recently introduced by the first two authors motivated by Einstein equation and Hamilton's Ricci flow. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-09 De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu , De-Liang Xu

This paper investigates circle patterns with obtuse exterior intersection angles on surfaces of finite topological type. We characterise the images of the curvature maps and establish several equivalent conditions regarding long time…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Huabin Ge , Bobo Hua , Ze Zhou

Mean curvature flows of isoparametric submanifolds in Euclidean spaces and spheres have been studied by Liu and Terng. In particular, it was proved that such flows always have ancient solutions. This is also true for mean curvature flows of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Xiaobo Liu , Wanxu Yang