3-dimensional combinatorial Yamabe flow in hyperbolic background geometry

Ge, Huabin; Hua, Bobo

doi:10.1090/tran/8062

3-dimensional combinatorial Yamabe flow in hyperbolic background geometry
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Abstract:

We study the 3-dimensional combinatorial Yamabe flow in hyperbolic background geometry. For a triangulation of a 3-manifold, we prove that if the number of tetrahedra incident to each vertex is at least 23, then there exist real or virtual ball packings with vanishing (extended) combinatorial scalar curvature, i.e., the total (extended) solid angle at each vertex is equal to $4\pi$. In this case, if such a ball packing is real, then the (extended) combinatorial Yamabe flow converges exponentially fast to that ball packing. Moreover, we prove that there is no real or virtual ball packing with vanishing (extended) combinatorial scalar curvature if the number of tetrahedra incident to each vertex is at most 22.

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