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This paper constructs hyperbolic polyhedral metrics via circle packings. We introduce the curvature of circles as a parameter to include all three types of constant curvature curves in the hyperbolic geometry. This provides a unified…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Te Ba , Guangming Hu , Yu Sun

In this paper we investigate the convergence for the mean curvature flow of closed submanifolds with arbitrary codimension in space forms. Particularly, we prove that the mean curvature flow deforms a closed submanifold satisfying a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Fei Ye , Entao Zhao

In [12], the existence of ideal circle patterns in Euclidean or hyperbolic background geometry under the combinatorial conditions was proved using flow approaches. It remains as an open problem for the spherical case. In this paper, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Huabin Ge , Bobo Hua , Puchun Zhou

A discrete conformality for hyperbolic polyhedral surfaces is introduced in this paper. This discrete conformality is shown to be computable. It is proved that each hyperbolic polyhedral metric on a closed surface is discrete conformal to a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Xianfeng Gu , Ren Guo , Feng Luo , Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu

A combinatorial version of Yamabe flow is presented based on Euclidean triangulations coming from sphere packings. The evolution of curvature is then derived and shown to satisfy a heat equation. The Laplacian in the heat equation is shown…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Glickenstein

We investigate the existence, convergence and uniqueness of modified general curvature flow of convex hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space with a prescribed asymptotic boundary.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-23 Ling Xiao

Chow and Hamilton introduced the cross curvature flow on closed 3-manifolds with negative or positive sectional curvature. In this paper, we study the negative cross curvature flow in the case of locally homogenous metrics on 3-manifolds.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Xiaodong Cao , Yilong Ni , Laurent Saloff-Coste

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian three-dimensional manifold with boundary. We prove the compactness of the set of scalar-flat metrics which are in the conformal class of g and have the boundary as a constant mean curvature hypersurface.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Sergio Almaraz , Olivaine S. de Queiroz , Shaodong Wang

In this paper, we investigate the prescribed total geodesic curvature problem for generalized circle packing metrics in hyperbolic background geometry on surfaces with infinite cellular decompositions. To address this problem, we introduce…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Xinrong Zhao , Puchun Zhou

In this paper, we introduce a new combinatorial curvature on triangulated surfaces with inversive distance circle packing metrics. Then we prove that this combinatorial curvature has global rigidity. To study the Yamabe problem of the new…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-30 Huabin Ge , Xu Xu

This paper investigates the combinatorial $\alpha$-curvature for vertex scaling of piecewise hyperbolic metrics on polyhedral surfaces, which is a parameterized generalization of the classical combinatorial curvature. A discrete…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

On a compact three-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary, we prove the compactness of the full set of conformal metrics with positive constant scalar curvature and constant mean curvature on the boundary. This involves a blow-up…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Sergio Almaraz , Shaodong Wang

In this paper, we introduce two discrete curvature flows, which are called $\alpha$-flows on two and three dimensional triangulated manifolds. For triangulated surface $M$, we introduce a new normalization of combinatorial Ricci flow (first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Huabin Ge , Xu Xu

In this article we show that generally almost regular flows, introduced by Bamler and Kleiner, in closed 3-manifolds will either go extinct in finite time or flow to a collection of smooth embedded minimal surfaces, possibly with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Alexander Mramor , Ao Sun

We prove existence of thick geodesic triangulations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and use this to prove existence of universal bounds on the principal curvatures of surfaces embedded in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-11-23 William Breslin

Given a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold M with a quasigeodesic flow we construct a \pi_1-equivariant sphere-filling curve in the boundary of hyperbolic space. Specifically, we show that any complete transversal P to the lifted flow on H^3 has…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Steven Frankel

This note revisits the inverse mean curvature flow in the 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. In particular, we show that the limiting shape is not necessarily round after scaling, thus resolving an inconsistency in the literature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-09 Pei-Ken Hung , Mu-Tao Wang

We study global aspects of the mean curvature flow of non-separating hypersurfaces $S$ in closed manifolds. For instance, if $S$ has non-vanishing mean curvature, we show its level set flow converges smoothly towards an embedded minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Marco A. M. Guaraco , Vanderson Lima , Franco Vargas Pallete

We consider curvature flows in hyperbolic space with a monotone, symmetric, homogeneous of degree 1 curvature function F. Furthermore we assume F to be either concave and inverse concave or convex. For compact initial hypersurfaces, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-10 Matthias Makowski

The {\it curvature} and the {\it reduced curvature} are basic differential invariants of the pair: (Hamiltonian system, Lagrange distribution) on the symplectic manifold. We show that negativity of the curvature implies that any bounded…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrei A. Agrachev , Natalia N. Chtcherbakova