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Projective Rigidity of Circle Packings

Geometric Topology 2023-07-19 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We prove that the space of circle packings consistent with a given triangulation on a surface of genus at least two is projectively rigid, so that a packing on a complex projective surface is not deformable within that complex projective structure. More broadly, we show that the space of circle packings is a submanifold within the space of complex projective structures on that surface.

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@article{arxiv.2307.08972,
  title  = {Projective Rigidity of Circle Packings},
  author = {Francesco Bonsante and Michael Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.08972},
  year   = {2023}
}

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