Circle Packings on Affine Tori
Date Issued
August 1, 2011
Author(s)
Sass, Christopher Thomas
Advisor(s)
Kenneth Stephenson
Additional Advisor(s)
Carl Sundberg
James Conant
Jesse Poore
Abstract
This thesis is a study of circle packings for arbitrary combinatorial tori in the geometric setting of affine tori. Certain new tools needed for this study, such as face labels instead of the usual vertex labels, are described. It is shown that to each combinatorial torus there corresponds a two real parameter family of affine packing labels. A construction of circle packings for combinatorial fundamental domains from affine packing labels is given. It is demonstrated that such circle packings have two affine side-pairing maps, and also that these side-pairing maps depend continuously on the two real parameters.
Disciplines
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Major
Mathematics
Embargo Date
December 1, 2011
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