Non-rigidity of spherical inversive distance circle packings

Jiming Ma , Jean-Marc Schlenker (1)

1 IMT - Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse UMR5219

We give a counterexample of Bowers-Stephenson's conjecture in the spherical case: spherical inversive distance circle packings are not determined by their inversive distances.

Domaines: Géométrie différentielle [math.DG]; Topologie géométrique [math.GT]

Jiming Ma, Jean-Marc Schlenker. Non-rigidity of spherical inversive distance circle packings. Discrete and Computational Geometry, 2012, 47 (3), pp.610-617. ⟨10.1007/s00454-012-9399-3⟩. ⟨hal-00618940⟩