Minimal surfaces from circle patterns: Geometry from combinatorics

AI Bobenko, T Hoffmann, BA Springborn - Annals of Mathematics, 2006 - JSTOR
The theory of polyhedral surfaces and, more generally, the field of discrete differential
geometry are presently emerging on the border of differential and discrete geometry …

[PDF][PDF] Lectures on discrete and polyhedral geometry

I Pak - Manuscript (http://www. math. ucla. edu/~ pak/book …, 2010 - math.ucla.edu
The subject of Discrete Geometry and Convex Polytopes has received much attention in
recent decades, with an explosion of the work in the field. This book is an introduction …

Quivers, YBE and 3-manifolds

M Yamazaki - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We study 4d superconformal indices for a large class of\(\mathcal {N}= 1\)
superconformal quiver gauge theories realized combinatorially as a bipartite graph or a set …

Faddeev–Volkov solution of the Yang–Baxter equation and discrete conformal symmetry

VV Bazhanov, VV Mangazeev, SM Sergeev - Nuclear Physics B, 2007 - Elsevier
The Faddeev–Volkov solution of the star-triangle relation is connected with the modular
double of the quantum group Uq (sl2). It defines an Ising-type lattice model with positive …

Discrete surface ricci flow: Theory and applications

M Jin, J Kim, XD Gu - Mathematics of Surfaces XII: 12th IMA International …, 2007 - Springer
Conformal geometry is at the core of pure mathematics. Conformal structure is more flexible
than Riemaniann metric but more rigid than topology. Conformal geometric methods have …

A variational principle for weighted Delaunay triangulations and hyperideal polyhedra

BA Springborn - Journal of Differential Geometry, 2008 - projecteuclid.org
We use a variational principle to prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for planar
weighted Delaunay triangulations (with non-intersecting site-circles) with prescribed …

Optimal surface parameterization using inverse curvature map

YL Yang, J Kim, F Luo, SM Hu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mesh parameterization is a fundamental technique in computer graphics. Our paper focuses
on solving the problem of finding the best discrete conformal mapping that also minimizes …

Approximation of conformal mappings by circle patterns

U Bücking - Geometriae Dedicata, 2008 - Springer
A circle pattern is a configuration of circles in the plane whose combinatorics is given by a
planar graph G such that to each vertex of G corresponds a circle. If two vertices are …

A unique representation of polyhedral types. Centering via Möbius transformations

BA Springborn - Mathematische Zeitschrift, 2005 - Springer
For n≥ 3 distinct points in the d-dimensional unit sphere there exists a Möbius
transformation such that the barycenter of the transformed points is the origin. This Möbius …

Surfaces from circles

AI Bobenko - Discrete differential geometry, 2008 - Springer
In the search for appropriate discretizations of surface theory it is crucial to preserve
fundamental properties of surfaces such as their invariance with respect to transformation …