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Discrete catenoid. (English) Zbl 1163.53300

From the text: This catenoid is a complete discrete minimal surface given by explicit formulas for its vertices. The authors have found an explicit representation of a 4-parameter family of complete discrete catenoids. These catenoids are the first explicitly known discrete versions of a complete minimal surface beside the trivial plane which are solutions of the variational problem for the discrete surface area. This explicit representation allows to generate exact discrete minimal surfaces without numerical errors which is useful, for example, in index computations.

MSC:

53-04 Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to differential geometry
53A10 Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature
65M50 Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for the numerical solution of initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs