Ricci flow deforms the Riemannian metric proportionally to the curvature, such that the curvature evolves according to a heat diffusion process and eventually becomes constant everywhere. Ricci flow has demonstrated its great potential by solving various problems in many fields, which can be hardly handled by alternative methods so far....
The P1 discretization of the Laplace operator on a triangulated
polyhedral surface is related to geometric properties of the surface. This paper studies extremum problems for eigenvalues of the P1 discretization of the
Laplace operator. Among all triangles, an equilateral triangle has the maximal first positive eigenvalue. Among all cyclic...
The Laplace-Beltrami operator of a smooth Riemannian manifold is determined by the Riemannian metric. Conversely, the heat kernel constructed from the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator determines the Riemannian metric. This work proves the analogy on Euclidean polyhedral surfaces (triangle meshes), that the discrete heat kernel and the...