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Publications and source records attributed to Huabin Ge.
In this paper, we prove the Lipschitz regularity of continuous harmonic maps from an finite dimensional Alexandrov space to a compact smooth Riemannian manifold. This solves a conjecture of F. H. Lin in \cite{lin97}. The proof extends the argument of Huang-Wang \cite {hua-w10}.
We study the limit of first eigenfunctions of (discrete) $p$-Laplacian on a finite subset of a graph with Dirichlet boundary condition, as $p\to 1.$ We prove that up to a subsequence, they converge to a summation of characteristic functions of Cheeger cuts of the graph. We give an example to show that the limit may not be a characteristic function of a single Cheeger cut.
In this paper, we introduce discrete Calabi flow to the graphics research community and present a novel conformal mesh parameterization algorithm. Calabi energy has a succinct and explicit format. Its corresponding flow is conformal and convergent under certain conditions. Our method is based on the Calabi energy and Calabi flow with solid theoretical and mathematical base. We demonstrate our approach on dozens of models and compare it with other related flow based methods, such as the well-known Ricci flow and CETM. Our experiments show that the performance of our algorithm is comparably the same with other methods. The discrete Calabi flow in our method provides another perspective on conformal flow and conformal parameterization.
In this paper, we introduce a new combinatorial curvature on triangulated surfaces with inversive distance circle packing metrics. Then we prove that this combinatorial curvature has global rigidity. To study the Yamabe problem of the new curvature, we introduce a combinatorial Ricci flow, along which the curvature evolves almost in the same way as that of scalar curvature along the surface Ricci flow obtained by Hamilton \cite{Ham1}. Then we study the long time behavior of the combinatorial Ricci flow and obtain that the existence of a constant curvature metric is equivalent to the convergence of the flow on triangulated surfaces with nonpositive Euler number. We further generalize the combinatorial curvature to $α$-curvature and prove that it is also globally rigid, which is in fact a generalized Bower-Stephenson conjecture \cite{BS}. We also use the combinatorial Ricci flow to study the corresponding $α$-Yamabe problem.
In this paper, we study the geometric aspects of ball packings on $(M,\mathcal{T})$, where $\mathcal{T}$ is a triangulation on a 3-manifold $M$. We introduce a combinatorial Yamabe invariant $Y_{\mathcal{T}}$, depending on the topology of $M$ and the combinatoric of $\mathcal{T}$. We prove that $Y_{\mathcal{T}}$ is attainable if and only if there is a constant curvature packing, and the combinatorial Yamabe problem can be solved by minimizing Cooper-Rivin-Glickenstein functional. We then study the combinatorial Yamabe flow introduced by Glickenstein \cite{G0}-\cite{G2}. We first prove a small energy convergence theorem which says that the flow would converge to a constant curvature metric if the initial energy is close in a quantitative way to the energy of a constant curvature metric. We shall also prove: although the flow may develop singularities in finite time, there is a natural way to extend the solution of the flow so as it exists for all time. Moreover, if the triangulation $\mathcal{T}$ is regular (that is, the number of tetrahedrons surrounding each vertex are all equal), then the combinatorial Yamabe flow converges exponentially fast to a constant curvature packing.
We study the 3-dimensional combinatorial Yamabe flow in hyperbolic background geometry. For a triangulation of a 3-manifold, we prove that if the number of tetrahedra incident to each vertex is at least 23, then there exist real or virtual ball packings with vanishing (extended) combinatorial scalar curvature, i.e. the (extended) solid angle at each vertex is equal to 4π. In this case, if such a ball packing is real, then the (extended) combinatorial Yamabe flow converges exponentially fast to that ball packing. Moreover, we prove that there is no real or virtual ball packing with vanishing (extended) combinatorial scaler curvature if the number of tetrahedra incident to each vertex is at most 22.
We establish the existence of Kähler-Ricci flow on pseudoconvex domains with general initial metric without curvature bounds. Moreover we prove that this flow is simultaneously complete, and its normalized version converge to the complete Kähler-Einstein metric, which generalizes Topping's works on surfaces.
In this note, we study the Liouville equation $Δu = -e^u$ on a graph G satisfying certain isoperimetric inequality. Following the idea of W. Ding, we prove that there exists a uniform lower bound for the energy, $Σ_G e^u$ of any solution $u$, to the equation. In particular, for the 2-dimensional lattice graph $Z^2$; the lower bound is given by 4.
We study the following $1$-Yamabe equation on a connected finite graph $$Δ_1u+g\mathrm{Sgn}(u)=h|u|^{α-1}\mathrm{Sgn}(u),$$ where $Δ_1$ is the discrete $1$-Laplacian, $α>1$ and $g, h>0$ are known. We show that the above $1$-Yamabe equation always has a nontrivial solution $u\geq0$, $u\neq0$.
Given a triangulated surface $M$, we use Ge-Xu's $α$-flow \cite{Ge-Xu1} to deform any initial inversive distance circle packing metric to a metric with constant $α$-curvature. More precisely, we prove that the inversive distance circle packing with constant $α$-curvature is unique if $αχ(M)\leq 0$, which generalize Andreev-Thurston's rigidity results for circle packing with constant cone angles. We further prove that the solution to Ge-Xu's $α$-flow can always be extended to a solution that exists for all time and converges exponentially fast to constant $α$-curvature. Finally, we give some combinatorial and topological obstacles for the existence of constant $α$-curvature metrics.
In this paper, we introduce a framework of $(α,β)$-flows on triangulated manifolds with two and three dimensions, which unifies several discrete curvature flows previously defined in the literature.
In [Cheeger-Tian 2005], Cheeger-Tian proved an $ε$-regularity theorem for $4$-dimensional Einstein manifolds without volume assumption. They conjectured that similar results should hold for critical metrics with constant scalar curvature, shrinking Ricci solitons, Ricci flows in $4$-dimensional manifolds and higher dimensional Einstein manifolds. In this paper we consider all these problems. First, we construct counterexamples to the conjecture for $4$-dimensional critical metrics and counterexamples to the conjecture for higher dimensional Einstein manifolds. For $4$-dimensional shrinking Ricci solitons, we prove an $ε$-regularity theorem which confirms Cheeger-Tian's conjecture with a universal constant $ε$. For Ricci flow, we reduce Cheeger-Tian's $ε$-regularity conjecture to a backward Pseudolocality estimate. By proving a global backward Pseudolocality theorem, we can prove a global $ε$-regularity theorem which partially confirms Cheeger-Tian's conjecture for Ricci flow. Furthermore, as a consequence of the $ε$-regularity, we can show by using the structure theorem of Naber-Tian \cite{NaTi} that a collapsed limit of shrinking Ricci solitons with bounded $L^2$ curvature has a smooth Riemannian orbifold structure away from a finite number of points.
We concern in this paper the graph Kazdan-Warner equation \begin{equation*} Δf=g-he^f \end{equation*} on an infinite graph, the prototype of which comes from the smooth Kazdan-Warner equation on an open manifold. Different from the variational methods often used in the finite graph case, we use a heat flow method to study the graph Kazdan-Warner equation. We prove the existence of a solution to the graph Kazdan-Warner equation under the assumption that $h\leq0$ and some other integrability conditions or constrictions about the underlying infinite graphs.
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected finite graph. In this short paper, we reinvestigate the Kazdan-Warner equation $$Δu=c-he^u$$ with $c<0$ on $G$, where $h$ defined on $V$ is a known function. Grigor'yan, Lin and Yang \cite{GLY} showed that if the Kazdan-Warner equation has a solution, then $\overline{h}$, the average value of $h$, is negative. Conversely, if $\overline{h}<0$, then there exists a number $c_-(h)<0$, such that the Kazdan-Warner equation is solvable for every $0>c>c_-(h)$ and it is not solvable for $c -\infty$, then there exists at least one solution to the Kazdan-Warner equation with $c=c_-(h)$.
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected finite graph and $C(V)$ be the set of functions defined on $V$. Let $Δ_p$ be the discrete $p$-Laplacian on $G$ with $p>1$ and $L=Δ_p-k$, where $k\in C(V)$ is positive everywhere. Consider the operator $L:C(V)\rightarrow C(V)$. We prove that $-L$ is one to one, onto and preserves order. So it implies that there exists a unique solution to the equation $Lu=f$ for any given $f\in C(V)$. We also prove that the equation $Δ_pu=\overline{f}-f$ has a solution which is unique up to a constant, where $\overline{f}$ is the average of $f$. With the help of these results, we finally give various conditions such that the $p$-th Kazdan-Warner equation $Δ_pu=c-he^u$ has a solution on $V$ for given $h\in C(V)$ and $c\in \mathds{R}$. Thus we generalize Grigor'yan, Lin and Yang's work \cite{GLY} for $p=2$ to any $p>1$.
Assume $α\geq p>1$. Consider the following $p$-th Yamabe equation on a connected finite graph $G$: $$Δ_pφ+hφ^{p-1}=λfφ^{α-1},$$ where $Δ_p$ is the discrete $p$-Laplacian, $h$ and $f>0$ are fixed real functions defined on all vertices. We show that the above equation always has a positive solution $φ$ for some constant $λ\in\mathds{R}$.
We prove that there does not exist non-constant positive $f$-harmonic function on the complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. We also prove the $L^{p}(p\geq 1 \ {\rm or}\ 0<p\leq 1)$ Liouville theorems on the complete gradient shrinking Ricci solitons.
We show that the results in \cite{Ge-Jiang1} are still true in hyperbolic background geometry setting, that is, the solution to Chow-Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow can always be extended to a solution that exists for all time, furthermore, the extended solution converges exponentially fast if and only if there exists a metric with zero curvature. We also give some results about the range of discrete Gaussian curvatures, which generalize Andreev-Thurston's theorem to some extent.