Conformal mapping has been applied mostly to harmonic functions, i.e. solutions of Laplace’s equation. In this paper, it is noted that some other equations are also conformally invariant and thus equally well suited for conformal mapping in two dimensions. In physics, these include steady states of various nonlinear diffusion equations, the advection-diffusion equations for potential flows, and...

Conformal mapping is an important mathematical tool that can be used to solve various physical and engineering problems in many fields, including electrostatics, fluid mechanics, classical mechanics, and transformation optics. It is an accurate and convenient way to solve problems involving two terminals. However, when faced with problems involving three or more terminals, which are more common...

In this paper we study conformally geodesic mappings between pseudo-Riemannian manifolds (M, g) and (M̄, ḡ), i.e. mappings f : M → M̄ satisfying f = f1 ◦ f2 ◦ f3, where f1, f3 are conformal mappings and f2 is a geodesic mapping. Suppose that the initial condition f∗ḡ = kg is satisfied at a point x0 ∈ M and that at this point the conformal Weyl tensor does not vanish. We prove that then f is neces...

According to the Uniformization Theorem, any surface can be conformally mapped into a domain of a constant Gaussian curvature. The conformal factor indicates the local scaling introduced by such a mapping. This process could be used to compute geometric quantities in a simplified flat domain with zero Gaussian curvature. For example, the computation of geodesic distances on a curved surface can...

We study the properties of a conformal mapping z(k; h) from K(h)

The conformal formulation provides a method for constructing and parametrizing solutions of the Einstein constraint equations by mapping freely chosen sets of conformal data to solutions, provided a certain set of coupled, elliptic determined PDEs (whose expression depends on the chosen conformal data) admit a unique solution. For constant mean curvature (CMC) data, it is known in almost all ca...

This paper solves the problem of computing conformal structures of general 2manifolds represented as triangle meshes. We compute conformal structures in the following way: first compute homology bases from simplicial complex structures, then construct dual cohomology bases and diffuse them to harmonic 1-forms. Next, we construct bases of holomorphic differentials. We then obtain period matrices...

The locations and patterns of functional brain activity in humans are difficult to compare across subjects because of individual differences in cortical folding and the fact that functional foci are often buried within cortical sulci. Cortical flat mapping is a tool which can address these problems by taking advantage of the two-dimensional sheet topology of the cortical surface. Flat mappings ...