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On a discretization of confocal quadrics. I. An integrable systems approach

Bobenko, Alexander I.; Schief, Wolfgang K.; Suris, Yuri B.; Techter, Jan

Confocal quadrics lie at the heart of the system of confocal coordinates (also called elliptic coordinates, after Jacobi). We suggest a discretization which respects two crucial properties of confocal coordinates: separability and all two-dimensional coordinate subnets being isothermic surfaces (that is, allowing a conformal parametrization along curvature lines, or, equivalently, supporting orthogonal Koenigs nets). Our construction is based on an integrable discretization of the Euler–Poisson–Darboux equation and leads to discrete nets with the separability property, with all two-dimensional subnets being Koenigs nets, and with an additional novel discrete analogue of the orthogonality property. The coordinate functions of our discrete nets are given explicitly in terms of gamma functions.
discrete integrable systemsdiscrete differential geometrydiscrete elliptic coordinatesKoenigs netsconfocal quadrics
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10.14279/depositonce-11461
Published in: Journal of Integrable Systems, 10.1093/integr/xyw005, Oxford University Press
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