Infinitesimally flexible meshes and discrete minimal surfaces |
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Authors: | Johannes Wallner Helmut Pottmann |
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Affiliation: | 1.Technische Universit?t Graz,Graz,Austria |
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Abstract: | We explore the geometry of isothermic meshes, conical meshes, and asymptotic meshes around the Christoffel dual construction of a discrete minimal surface. We present a discrete Legendre transform which realizes discrete minimal surfaces as conical meshes. Conical meshes turn out to be infinitesimally flexible if and only if their spherical image is isothermic, which implies that discrete minimal surfaces constructed in this way are infinitesimally flexible, and therefore possess reciprocal-parallel meshes. These are discrete minimal surfaces in their own right. In our study of relative kinematics of infinitesimally flexible meshes, we encounter characterizations of flexibility and isothermicity which are of incidence-geometric nature and are related to the classical Desargues configuration. The Lelieuvre formula for asymptotic meshes leads to another characterization of isothermic meshes in the sphere which is based on triangle areas. Authors’ addresses: Johannes Wallner (corresponding author), Institut für Geometrie, TU Graz, Kopernikusgasse 24, A 8010 Graz, Austria; Helmut Pottmann, Institut für Diskrete Mathematik und Geometrie, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstr. 8-10/104, A 1040 Wien, Austria |
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Keywords: | 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53A40 52C99 51B15 65D18 |
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