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Calculating the Conformal Modulus of Complex Tori and an Application to Graph Theory

Date Issued
December 1, 2002
Author(s)
Howard, Jason
Advisor(s)
Kenneth Stephenson
Additional Advisor(s)
Charles Collins
Morwen Thistlethwaite
Permanent URI
https://trace.tennessee.edu/handle/20.500.14382/37995
Abstract

In 1985 William Thurston conjectured that conformal mappings could be approximated using infintessimal circles. With this, the area of mathematics called Cirle Packing was born. The advantage of this technique is that it gives a computational method of understanding manifolds. In particular, we attempt to gain some insight of complex tori via Circle Packing. In practice, it is difficult to imagine what these tori look like. Computational techniques of Circle Packing will help us visualise these tori as points in moduli space by beginning with an initial triangulation of the torus. We then experiment with triangulations on a set number of vertices.

Disciplines
Mathematics
Degree
Master of Science
Major
Mathematics
Embargo Date
December 1, 2002
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