Non-Euclidean Laguerre Geometry and Incircular Nets
Published on 29. October 2021
X, 137 pages
978-3-030-81847-0 (ISBN)
Description
This textbook is a comprehensive and yet accessible introduction to non-Euclidean Laguerre geometry, for which there exists no previous systematic presentation in the literature. Moreover, we present new results by demonstrating all essential features of Laguerre geometry on the example of checkerboard incircular nets.
Classical (Euclidean) Laguerre geometry studies oriented hyperplanes, oriented hyperspheres, and their oriented contact in Euclidean space. We describe how this can be generalized to arbitrary Cayley-Klein spaces, in particular hyperbolic and elliptic space, and study the corresponding groups of Laguerre transformations. We give an introduction to Lie geometry and describe how these Laguerre geometries can be obtained as subgeometries. As an application of two-dimensional Lie and Laguerre geometry we study the properties of checkerboard incircular nets.
Classical (Euclidean) Laguerre geometry studies oriented hyperplanes, oriented hyperspheres, and their oriented contact in Euclidean space. We describe how this can be generalized to arbitrary Cayley-Klein spaces, in particular hyperbolic and elliptic space, and study the corresponding groups of Laguerre transformations. We give an introduction to Lie geometry and describe how these Laguerre geometries can be obtained as subgeometries. As an application of two-dimensional Lie and Laguerre geometry we study the properties of checkerboard incircular nets.
Reviews / Votes
"In this short book the authors present non-Euclidean Laguerre geometry, related Möbius and Lie geometries, and their transformations, and demonstrate how these geometries can be applied to the study of checkerboard incircular nets. ... Two appendices summarize defnitions and properties of Euclidean Laguerre geometry and generalized signed inversive distance. Throughout the text, many instructive diagrams aid the visualization of the concepts and constructions." (Günter F. Steinke, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2, March, 2024)
"The book is very geometric in flavour and contains lots of instructive illustrations." (Norbert Knarr, zbMATH 1492.51001, 2022)
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2021
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
X, 137 p. 57 illus., 53 illus. in color.
File size
4,58 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-81847-0 (9783030818470)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-81847-0
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Alexander I. Bobenko | Carl O.R. Lutz | Helmut Pottmann
Non-Euclidean Laguerre Geometry and Incircular Nets
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Persons
Alexander Bobenko is a professor at the Technische Universität Berlin. He is an author with Yuri Suris of the book "Discrete Differential Geometry", and editor of several books in geometry and mathematical physics. He is the Coordinator of the DFG Collaboration Research Center "Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics".
Carl Lutz is a doctoral student at Technische Universität Berlin. He wrote his master thesis under the supervision of Alexander Bobenko on the topic "Laguerre Geometry in Space Forms".
Helmut Pottmann is a professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and at Technische Universität Wien. He has co-authored two books ("Computational Line Geometry" and "Architectural Geometry") and has been founding director of the Visual Computing Center at KAUST and the Center for Geometry and Computational Design at TU Wien.
Jan Techter is a postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin. He wrote his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Alexander Bobenko on the topic "Discrete Confocal Quadrics and Checkerboard Incircular Nets".
Carl Lutz is a doctoral student at Technische Universität Berlin. He wrote his master thesis under the supervision of Alexander Bobenko on the topic "Laguerre Geometry in Space Forms".
Helmut Pottmann is a professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia and at Technische Universität Wien. He has co-authored two books ("Computational Line Geometry" and "Architectural Geometry") and has been founding director of the Visual Computing Center at KAUST and the Center for Geometry and Computational Design at TU Wien.
Jan Techter is a postdoc at Technische Universität Berlin. He wrote his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Alexander Bobenko on the topic "Discrete Confocal Quadrics and Checkerboard Incircular Nets".
Content
Introduction.- Two-dimensional non-Euclidean Laguerre geometry.- Quadrics in projective space.- Cayley-Klein spaces.- Central projection of quadrics and Möbius geometry.- Non-Euclidean Laguerre geometry.- Lie geometry.- Checkerboard incircular nets.- Euclidean cases.- Generalized signed inversive distance.
