Approximation of conformal mappings by circle patterns

Abstract

A circle pattern is a configuration of circles in the plane whose combinatorics is given by a planar graph G such that to each vertex of G corresponds a circle. If two vertices are connected by an edge in G, the corresponding circles intersect with an intersection angle in $(0,\pi )$. Two sequences of circle patterns are employed to approximate a given conformal map $g$ and its first derivative. For the domain of $g$ we use embedded circle patterns where all circles have the same radius decreasing to 0 and which have uniformly bounded intersection angles. The image circle patterns have the same combinatorics and intersection angles and are determined from boundary conditions (radii or angles) according to the values of $g^{\prime }$ ($|g^{\prime }|$ or $\arg g^{\prime }$). For quasicrystallic circle patterns the convergence result is strengthened to $C^{\infty }$-convergence on compact subsets.

36 pages, 7 figures

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