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Publications and source records attributed to Xiaoping Zhu.
It is well-known that the Euclidean plane has a standard 6-regular geodesic triangulation , and the unit sphere has a 5-regular geodesic triangulation, which is induced from the regular Dodecahedron, and the hyperbolic plane has an n-regular geodesic triangulation for any n > 6. Here we constructed a 6-regular geodesic triangulation of the hyperbolic plane.
It has been shown that spaces of geodesic triangulations of closed negatively curved surfaces are contractible. Here we prove that these spaces are homeomorphic to Euclidean spaces $\mathbb{R}^n$.
In this paper, we determine the topology of the spaces of convex polyhedra inscribed in the unit $2$-sphere and the spaces of strictly Delaunay geodesic triangulations of the unit $2$-sphere. These spaces can be regarded as discretized groups of diffeomorphisms of the unit $2$-sphere. Hence, it is natural to conjecture that these spaces have the same homotopy types as those of their smooth counterparts. The main result of this paper confirms this conjecture for the unit $2$-sphere. It follows from an observation on the variational principles on triangulated surfaces developed by I. Rivin. On the contrary, the similar conjecture does not hold in the cases of flat tori and convex polygons. We will construct simple examples of flat tori and convex polygons such that the corresponding spaces of Delaunay geodesic triangulations are not connected.
The notion of discrete conformality proposed by Luo and Bobenko-Pinkall-Springborn on triangle meshes has rich mathematical theories and wide applications. Gu et al. proved that the discrete uniformizations approximate the continuous uniformization for closed surfaces of genus $\geq 1$, given that the approximating triangle meshes are reasonably good. In this paper, we generalize this result to the remaining case of genus-zero surfaces, by reducing it to planar cases via stereographic projections.
We prove that the deformation space of geodesic triangulations of a flat torus is homotopy equivalent to a torus. This solves an open problem proposed by Connelly et al. in 1983, in the case of flat tori. A key tool of the proof is a generalization of Tutte's embedding theorem for flat tori. When this paper is under preparation, Erickson and Lin proved a similar result, which works for all convex drawings.
We proved the contractibility of the deformation space of the geodesic triangulations on a closed surface of negative curvature. This solves an open problem proposed by Connelly et al. in 1983, in the case of hyperbolic surfaces. The main part of the proof is a generalization of Tutte's embedding theorem for closed surfaces of negative curvature.
The notions of discrete conformality on triangle meshes have rich mathematical theories and wide applications. The related notions of discrete uniformizations on triangle meshes, suggest efficient methods for computing the uniformizations of surfaces. This paper proves that the discrete uniformizations approximate the continuous uniformization for closed surfaces of genus $\geq1$, when the approximating triangle meshes are reasonably good. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first convergence result on computing uniformizations for surfaces of genus $>1$.