The two-fluid model of a plasma describes the strong coupling between the magnetic and the fluid aspects of the plasma. The Beltrami condition which demands alignment of vortices and flows becomes a system of simultaneous equations in the magnetic field and the flow velocity. Combining these equations yields the double curl Beltrami equation. General solvability of the equation has been proved ...

The eigenvalue problem of the Laplace-Beltrami operators on curved surfaces plays an essential role in the convergence analysis of the numerical simulations of some important geometric partial differential equations which involve this operator. In this note we shall combine the local tangential lifting (LTL) method with the configuration equation to develop a new effective and convergent algori...

In this work we propose a generalization of the Heat Kernel Signature (HKS). The HKS is a point signature derived from the heat kernel of the Laplace-Beltrami operator of a surface. In the theory of exterior calculus on a Riemannian manifold, the Laplace-Beltrami operator of a surface is a special case of the Hodge Laplacian which acts on r-forms, i. e. the Hodge Laplacian on 0-forms (functions...

In two articles published in 1868 and 1869, Eugenio Beltrami provided three models in Euclidean plane (or space) for non-Euclidean geometry. Our main aim here is giving an extensive account of the two articles’ content. We will also try to understand how the way Beltrami, especially in the first article, develops his theory depends on a changing attitude with regards to the definition of surfac...

We obtain improved regularity of homeomorphic solutions of the reduced Beltrami equation, as compared to the standard Beltrami equation. Such an improvement is not possible in terms of Hölder or Sobolev regularity; instead, our results concern the generalized variation of restrictions to lines. Specifically, we prove that the restriction to any line segment has finite p-variation for all p > 1 ...

Laplace–Beltrami operator and its discretization play a central role in the fields of image processing, computer graphics, computer aided geometric design and so on. In this paper, a discrete scheme for Laplace–Beltrami operator over quadrilateral meshes is constructed based on a bilinear interpolation of the quadrilateral. Convergence results for the proposed discrete scheme are established un...

The Laplace–Beltrami operator, a fundamental object associated with Riemannian manifolds, encodes all intrinsic geometry of manifolds and has many desirable properties. Recently, we proposed the point integral method (PIM), a novel numerical method for discretizing the Laplace–Beltrami operator on point clouds (Li et al. in Commun Comput Phys 22(1):228–258, 2017). In this paper, we analyze the ...

Abstract. The paper concerns numerical algorithms for solving the Beltrami equation fz̄(z) = μ(z)fz(z) for a compactly supported μ. First, we study an efficient algorithm that has been proposed in the literature, and present its rigorous justification. We then propose a different scheme for solving the Beltrami equation which has a comparable speed and accuracy, but has the virtue of a greater s...

For bicovariant differential calculi on quantum matrix groups a generalisation of classical notions such as metric tensor, Hodge operator, codifferential and Laplace-Beltrami operator for arbitrary k-forms is given. Under some technical assumptions it is proved that Woronowicz’ external algebra of left-invariant differential forms either contains a unique form of maximal degree or it is infinit...