Random Delaunay triangulations, the Thurston-Andreev theorem, and metric uniformization

Random Delaunay triangulations and metric uniformization

In this paper a new connection between the discrete conformal geometry problem of disk pattern construction and the continuous conformal geometry problem of metric uniformization is presented. In a nutshell, we discuss how to construct disk patterns by optimizing an objective function, which turns out to be intimately related to hyperbolic volume. With the use of random Delaunay triangulations we then average this objective function to construct an objective function on the metrics conformal to a fixed one. Finally using this averaged objective function we may reprove the uniformization theore…

曲面上带装饰的分片双曲度量的离散单值化定理

A discrete uniformization theorem for decorated piecewise hyperbolic metrics on surfaces

本文研究了曲面上高斯曲率的自然离散化，建立了离散单值化定理，并引入带手术的组合$\alpha$-Ricci流和组合$\alpha$-Calabi流，证明了其长期存在性与收敛性，从而解决了预定组合$\alpha$-曲率的带装饰分片双曲度量的存在性问题。

Euclidean formulation of discrete uniformization of the disk

Thurston's circle packing approximation of the Riemann Mapping (proven to give the Riemann Mapping in the limit by Rodin-Sullivan) is largely based on the theorem that any topological disk with a circle packing metric can be deformed into a circle packing metric in the disk with boundary circles internally tangent to the circle. The main proofs of the uniformization use hyperbolic volumes (Andreev) or hyperbolic circle packings (by Beardon and Stephenson). We reformulate these problems into a Euclidean context, which allows more general discrete conformal structures and boundary conditions. Th…

Yang-Mills Flow and Uniformization Theorems

We consider a parabolic-like systems of differential equations involving geometrical quantities to examine uniformization theorems for two- and three-dimensional closed orientable manifolds. We find that in the two-dimensional case there is a simple gauge theoretic flow for a connection built from a Riemannian structure, and that the convergence of the flow to the fixed points is consistent with the Poincare Uniformization Theorem. We construct a similar system for the three-dimensional case. Here the connection is built from a Riemannian geometry, an SO(3) connection and two other 1-form fiel…