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20182026
most citedDiscrete Differential Geometry and Cluster Algebras via TCD maps

3 citations · 7 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

math-ph2026

Möbius Invariant Dimers and Miquel Dynamics

Niklas C. Affolter, Luis Mühlhoff

As is already known, there is a correspondence between circle patterns and the dimer model, which is invariant under Euclidean transformations. We establish a new correspondence th…

math.DG2025

Discrete Koenigs nets, inscribed quadrics and autoconjugate curves

Niklas Christoph Affolter, Alexander Yves Fairley

Discrete Koenigs nets are a special class of discrete surfaces that play a fundamental role in discrete differential geometry, in particular in the study of discrete isothermic and…

math.DG2025

Discrete Koenigs nets and finite Laplace sequences

Niklas Christoph Affolter, Alexander Yves Fairley

Q-nets are maps from the square grid to projective space that have planar faces. We consider the Laplace sequences of Q-nets, which are determined by iterating a discrete time dyna…

math.DG2024

Discrete Lorentz surfaces and s-embeddings II: maximal surfaces

Niklas Christoph Affolter, Felix Dellinger, Christian Müller +2

S-embeddings were introduced by Chelkak as a tool to study the conformal invariance of the thermodynamic limit of the Ising model. Moreover, Chelkak, Laslier and Russkikh introduce…

math.DG2024

Discrete Lorentz surfaces and s-embeddings I: isothermic surfaces

Niklas Christoph Affolter, Felix Dellinger, Christian Müller +2

S-embeddings were introduced by Chelkak as a tool to study the conformal invariance of the thermodynamic limit of the Ising model. Moreover, Chelkak, Laslier and Russkikh introduce…

math-ph2024

Principal binets

Niklas Christoph Affolter, Jan Techter

Conjugate line parametrizations of surfaces were first discretized almost a century ago as quad meshes with planar faces. With the recent development of discrete differential geome…

math-ph2023★ 1 cited

Möbius invariant Y-systems (cluster structures) for Miquel dynamics

Niklas Christoph Affolter

Miquel dynamics is a discrete time dynamics for circle patterns, which relies on Miquel's six circle theorem. Previous work shows that the evolution of the circle centers satisfy t…

math.CO2023★ 3 cited

Discrete Differential Geometry and Cluster Algebras via TCD maps

Niklas Christoph Affolter

In this PhD thesis we develop the frame work of triple crossing diagram maps (TCD maps), which describes constrained configurations of points in projective spaces and discrete dyna…

math.DS2022★ 3 cited

The Schwarzian octahedron recurrence (dSKP equation) II: geometric systems

Niklas Christoph Affolter, Béatrice de Tilière, Paul Melotti

We consider nine geometric systems: Miquel dynamics, P-nets, integrable cross-ratio maps, discrete holomorphic functions, orthogonal circle patterns, polygon recutting, circle inte…

math.CO2022

The Schwarzian octahedron recurrence (dSKP equation) I: explicit solutions

Niklas Christoph Affolter, Béatrice de Tilière, Paul Melotti

We prove an explicit expression for the solutions of the discrete Schwarzian octahedron recurrence, also known as the discrete Schwarzian KP equation (dSKP), as the ratio of two pa…

math.DS2018

Miquel Dynamics, Clifford Lattices and the Dimer Model

Niklas C. Affolter

Miquel dynamics were introduced by Ramassamy as a discrete time evolution of square grid circle patterns on the torus. In each time step every second circle in the pattern is repla…