Isothermic surfaces in sphere geometries as Moutard nets

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2088, 2007, Pages 3171-3193

  Bobenko, Alexander I ^a   Suris, Yuri B ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discrete differential geometry; Discrete surfaces; Lie quadric; Moutard equation; M bius geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 36348932918     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1902     Document Type: Article

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