Rigidity of Koebe Polyhedra and Inversive Distance Circle Packings

This paper establishes the global rigidity of hyperbolic inversive distance circle packings on the 2-sphere, and equivalently of Koebe polyhedra in the Beltrami-Klein model, under mild assumptions on vertex links, thereby generalizing previous rigidity results and the uniqueness part of the Koebe-Andreev-Thurston Theorem to cases where adjacent circles need not touch.

John C. Bowers, Philip L. Bowers, Carl O. R. LutzTue, 10 Ma🔢 math