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Alexander I. Bobenko studies differential geometry, discrete geometric structures, integrable systems and Riemann surfaces. His TU Berlin homepage also emphasizes mathematical visualization as part of this work.^[ref]

With Carl O. R. Lutz, Helmut Pottmann and Jan Techter, he studied Laguerre geometry in spaces of different curvature and its use in incircular nets. The project connects continuous contact geometry with discrete geometric constraints.^[ref]

Carl O. R. Lutz coauthored research on Laguerre geometry with Alexander I. Bobenko, Helmut Pottmann and Jan Techter. The primary manuscript verifies the full printed name and TU Berlin affiliation at the time of the work.^[ref]

The paper generalizes oriented sphere-and-plane contact geometry to hyperbolic and elliptic settings, then applies it to incircular nets. This combines transformation geometry with discrete configurations satisfying exact contact conditions.^[ref]

Helmut Pottmann works on applied and discrete geometry, computational design and geometric methods for architecture and manufacturing. His KAUST research profile identifies this connection between mathematical structure and practical construction.^[ref]

His joint work with Alexander I. Bobenko, Carl O. R. Lutz and Jan Techter studies Laguerre geometry and incircular nets. Such nets organize quadrilaterals with inscribed circles, connecting exact tangency constraints with discrete surface geometry.^[ref]

An incircular net in the Euclidean plane is formed by two indexed families of straight lines $({\ell }_i)$ and $(m_j)$ such that each elementary quadrilateral bounded by ${\ell }_i,{\ell }_{i+1},m_j,m_{j+1}$ has a common circle tangent to its four side lines. In the usual nondegenerate convex setting this is an incircle. The line families make the rows and columns straight; a mesh of unrelated tangential quadrilaterals is a more general object.^[ref]

The square grid is an example, with one incircle centred in every square. A rectangular grid of unequal side lengths fails: a circle tangent to both horizontal sides must have radius half the height, while tangency to both vertical sides requires radius half the width. This simple test illustrates that the tangency constraint carries metric information. Checkerboard variants impose the condition on alternating cells and use oriented contact in Laguerre geometry.

Jan Techter works on discrete geometric structures. The Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics project identifies his participation in research on discrete surfaces.^[ref]

With Alexander I. Bobenko, Carl O. R. Lutz and Helmut Pottmann, he studied Laguerre geometry in spaces of different curvature and its application to incircular nets. The work treats contact between oriented spheres and planes as geometric data preserved by transformations.^[ref]

Classical Laguerre geometry studies oriented hyperplanes, oriented spheres and their oriented tangency in Euclidean space. Its transformations preserve that contact relation. In the plane the objects are oriented straight lines and oriented circles; points can be represented as radius-zero circles. The orientation and signed radius are part of the data, so ordinary unoriented tangency alone loses information.^[ref]

For example, fix a unit normal $u$ and an oriented line $u\cdot x=h$. Under a consistent signed-radius convention, a circle with centre $c$ and signed radius $r$ is in oriented contact when $u\cdot c-h=r$. The absolute-distance equation $|u\cdot c-h|=|r|$ forgets which side and orientation participate. This linear signed-contact relation motivates coordinate models for tangency and the use of Laguerre geometry in studying incircular nets.