David Pechersky | Searcharxiv

arXiv2025

A Polynomial Rate of Convergence for the Dirichlet Problem on Orthodiagonal Maps

We extend recent work of Gurel-Gurevich--Jerison--Nachmias (2020) and Bou-Rabee--Gwynne (2024) by showing that as the mesh of our lattice tends to $0$, we have a polynomial rate of convergence for the Dirichlet problem on orthodiagonal maps with H\"older boundary data to its continuous counterpart. The key idea is that the convolution of a discrete harmonic function on an orthodiagonal map with a smooth mollifier has small Laplacian and so is ``almost harmonic." This also allows us to show that discrete harmonic functions on orthodiagonal maps are Lipschitz in the bulk on a mesoscopic scale.

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arXiv2024

Orthodiagonal Maps, Tilings of Rectangles, and their Convergence to Conformal Maps

A classic result of Brooks, Smith, Stone and Tutte associates to any finite planar network with distinguished source and sink vertices, a tiling of a rectangle by smaller subrectangles whose aspect ratios are given by the conductances of corresponding edges in the network. This tiling can be viewed as a discrete analogue of the uniformizing conformal map that maps a simply connected domain with four distinguished prime ends to a rectangle, so that the four prime ends are mapped to the four corners of the rectangle. \\ \\ We make this intuition precise by showing that if $\Omega$ is a simply connected domain with four distinguished prime ends $A,B,C,D$ in counterclockwise order and $(\Omega_{n})_{n\geq{1}}$ is a sequence of orthodiagonal maps with distinguished boundary vertices $A_{n}, B_{n}, C_{n}, D_{n}$ in counterclockwise order, that are finer and finer approximations of $\Omega$ with its distinguished boundary points $A,B,C,D$, then the corresponding ``rectangle tiling maps" converge uniformly on compacts to the aforementioned conformal map on $\Omega$.

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