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Surface parameterizations have been widely used in computer graphics and geometry processing. In particular, as simply-connected open surfaces are conformally equivalent to the unit disk, it is desirable to compute the disk conformal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Pui Tung Choi , Lok Ming Lui

For an embedded conformal hypersurface with boundary, we construct critical order local invariants and their canonically associated differential operators. These are obtained holographically in a construction that uses a singular Yamabe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Cesar Arias , A. Rod Gover , Andrew Waldron

We present methods for analyzing and designing cylindrical electromagnetic metasurfaces with non-circular cross sections based on conformal transformations. It can be difficult to treat surfaces with non-canonical geometries since they…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-10 Gengyu Xu , George V. Eleftheriades , Sean V. Hum

Computational analysis with the finite element method requires geometrically accurate meshes. It is well known that high-order meshes can accurately capture curved surfaces with fewer degrees of freedom in comparison to low-order meshes.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketan Mittal , Veselin A. Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Franck Ledoux , Claire Roche , Vladimir Z. Tomov

The conformal geometry of surfaces in the conformal space $\mathbf Q^n_1$ is studied. We classify the space-like surfaces in $\mathbf Q^n_1$ with vanishing conformal form up to conformal equivalence.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-16 Changxiong Nie

We address the problem of second order conformal deformation of spacelike surfaces in compactified Minkowski 4-space. We explain the construction of the exterior differential system of conformal deformations and discuss its general and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-03 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi

In this paper, we provide two different resolutions of structural sheaves of projectivized tangent bundles of smooth complete intersections. These resolutions allow in particular to obtain convenient (and completely explicit) descriptions…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Antoine Etesse

We present some algorithms that provide useful topological information about curves in surfaces. One of the main algorithms computes the geometric intersection number of two properly embedded 1-manifolds $C_1$ and $C_2$ in a compact…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Marc Lackenby

Conformal nets provide a mathematical formalism for conformal field theory. Associated to a conformal net with finite index, we give a construction of the `bundle of conformal blocks', a representation of the mapping class groupoid of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-23 Arthur Bartels , Christopher L. Douglas , André Henriques

The aim of this paper is to verify that the study of generic conformally flat hypersurfaces in 4-dimensional space forms is reduced to a surface theory in the standard 3-sphere. The conformal structure of generic conformally flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Yoshihiko Suyama

Motivated by problems arising in the complex analysis of perturbative quantum field theory, we investigate the homology of finite unions of certain non-degenerate quadratic affine hypersurfaces of complex dimension $n$ in general position.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Maximilian Mühlbauer

Surface parameterization is widely used in computer graphics and geometry processing. It simplifies challenging tasks such as surface registrations, morphing, remeshing and texture mapping. In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Gary Pui-Tung Choi , Lok Ming Lui

Inspired by the work of Ou [12,17], we study biharmonic conformal immersions of surfaces into a conformally flat 3-space. We first give a characterization of biharmonic conformal immersions of totally umbilical surfaces into a generic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Ze-Ping Wang , Xue-Yi Chen

Hypersurfaces embedded in conformal manifolds appear frequently as boundary data in boundary-value problems in cosmology and string theory. Viewed as the non-null conformal infinity of a spacetime, we consider hypersurfaces embedded in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Samuel Blitz

We construct algorithms and topological invariants that allow us to distinguish the topological type of a surface, as well as functions and vector fields for their topological equivalence. In the first part (arXiv:2501.15657), we discused…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Alexandr Prishlyak

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

Conformal field theories have been extremely useful in our quest to understand physical phenomena in many different branches of physics, starting from condensed matter all the way up to high energy. Here we discuss applications of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Elias Kokkas , Aaron Bagheri , Zhenghan Wang , George Siopsis

An algorithm for the computation of global discrete conformal parametrizations with prescribed global holonomy signatures for triangle meshes was recently described in [Campen and Zorin 2017]. In this paper we provide a detailed analysis of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Marcel Campen , Denis Zorin

We study numerical computation of conformal invariants of domains in the complex plane. In particular, we provide an algorithm for computing the conformal capacity of a condenser. The algorithm applies for wide kind of geometries: domains…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-08-19 Mohamed M S Nasser , Matti Vuorinen

This manuscript develops a geometric approach to ordinary cohomology of smooth manifolds, constructing a cochain complex model based on co-oriented smooth maps from manifolds with corners. Special attention is given to the pull-back product…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Greg Friedman , Anibal M. Medina-Mardones , Dev Sinha