arXiv research

Improves MRI-based brain surface reconstruction with minimal deformation energy loss.

Characterizes neutral deformation modes of minimal surfaces.

The paper shows deformations between minimal surfaces in $S^{n+2}$ and $H^{n+2}$.

In this paper we study Lagrangian tori in ${\mathbb C}P^2$. A two-dimensional periodic Schrödinger operator is associated with every Lagrangian torus in ${\mathbb C}P^2$. We introduce an energy functional for tori as an integral of the potential of the Schrödinger operators, which has a natural geometrical meaning. We …

The problem of minimal distortion bending of smooth compact embedded connected Riemannian $n$-manifolds $M$ and $N$ without boundary is made precise by defining a deformation energy functional $Φ$ on the set of diffeomorphisms $\diff(M,N)$. We derive the Euler-Lagrange equation for $Φ$ and determine smooth minimizers o…

We derive a new model for pre-strained thin films, which consists of minimizing a biharmonic energy of deformations $v\in W^{2,2}$ satisfying the Monge-Ampère constraint $\det\nabla^2v = f$. We further discuss multiplicity properties of the minimizers of this model, in some special cases.

We associate a periodic two-dimensional Schrodinger operator to every Lagrangian torus in CP^2 and define the spectral curve of a torus as the Floquet spectrum of this operator on the zero energy level. In this event minimal Lagrangian tori correspond to potential operators. We show that Novikov-Veselov hierarchy of eq…

We study on which compact Sasakian 3-manifolds the Reeb field, which is a Beltrami field with eigenvalue 2, is an energy minimizer in its adjoint orbit under the action of volume preserving diffeomorphisms. This minimization property for Beltrami fields is relevant because of its connections with the phenomenon of magn…

The paper explores $\alpha-$harmonic maps and their stability, proving key properties and conditions.

Study of phase separation and geometry on a closed elastic curve, including dynamics and free energy minimization.

The paper proves properties of minimal isometric embeddings and conformal deformations of Riemannian surfaces.

Holographic principle matches deformed Liouville theory action.

We consider localized deformation for initial data sets of the Einstein field equations with the dominant energy condition. Deformation results with the weak inequality need to be handled delicately. We introduce a modified constraint operator to absorb the first order change of the metric in the dominant energy condit…

We study the deformations of twisted harmonic maps $f$ with respect to the representation $ρ$. After constructing a continuous "universal" twisted harmonic map, we give a construction of every first order deformation of $f$ in terms of Hodge theory; we apply this result to the moduli space of reductive representations …

The article studies critical points of a new energy functional in higher dimensions.

In this note we give a simplified proof of a recent result of X.X. Chen, which together with work of G. Szekelyhidi implies that on a sufficiently small deformation of a polarized constant scalar curvature Kahler manifold the K-energy has a lower bound.

We propose a notion of distance between two parametrized planar curves, called their discrepancy, and defined intuitively as the minimal amount of deformation needed to deform the source curve into the target curve. A precise definition of discrepancy is given as follows. A curve of transformations in the special Eucli…

Study explores kinematics of surfaces under metric restrictions.

Proves spacetime positive mass theorem with corners.

Derives stress-energy identities in Liouville theory on compact surfaces.

Registration, which aims to find an optimal one-to-one correspondence between different data, is an important problem in various fields. This problem is especially challenging when large deformations occur. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm to obtain diffeomorphic image or surface registrations with large def…

Minimal surfaces can be transformed into others with unchanged bending content.

For every $\;b>1\;$ fixed, we explicitly construct $1$-dimensional families of embedded constrained Willmore tori parametrized by their conformal class $\;(a,b)$\; with $\; a \sim_b 0^+\;$ deforming the homogenous torus \;$f^b$ of conformal class \;$(0,b).$ The variational vector field at $f^b$ is hereby given by a non…

Smooth deformations of a Minkowski type metric in a four-dimensional space-time manifold are considered. Deformations of the basic spin-tensorial fields associated with this metric are calculated and their application to calculating the energy-momentum tensor of a massive spin 1/2 particle is shown.

A formula connects discrete harmonic surfaces to holomorphic functions.

Method computes harmonic and conformal maps from point clouds.

Flow deforms locally convex curves into target curves.

Let (X,L) be a polarized Kähler manifold that admits an extremal Kähler metric in c1(L). We show that on a nearby polarized deformation that preserves the symmetry induced by the extremal vector field of (X,L), the modified K-energy is bounded from below. This generalizes a result of Chen, Székelyhidi and Tosatti to ex…

New theorem connects minimal and maximal surfaces, affecting graphness.

We extend short-time existence and stability of the Dirichlet energy flow as proven in a previous paper by the authors to a broader class of energy functionals. Furthermore, we derive some monotonely decreasing quantities for the Dirichlet energy flow and investigate an equation of soliton type. In particular, we show …

A behavior of extreme networks under deformations of their boundary sets is investigated. It is shown that analyticity of a deformation of boundary set guarantees preservation of the networks types for minimal spanning trees, minimal fillings and so-called stable shortest trees in the Euclidean space.

New result on critical points of Bethe free energy under deformation retracts.

Study lower bounds on modified K-energy on Fano manifolds with Kähler-Ricci solitons.

The paper studies minimal surfaces in deformed hyperbolic spaces and their properties.

Flat surfaces with erasing forest are obtained by deforming the flat metric structure of translation surfaces, the moduli space of such surfaces is a deformation of the moduli space of translation surfaces. On the moduli space of flat surfaces with erasing forest, one can define some energy function involving the area …

This paper addresses the morphing of manifold-valued images based on the time discrete geodesic paths model of Berkels, Effland and Rumpf 2015. Although for our manifold-valued setting such an interpretation of the energy functional is not available so far, the model is interesting on its own. We prove the existence of…

Solves complex Hessian equations in unstable cases, proving unique canonical solutions with singularities.

Paper proves unique energy-minimizing curves in constrained spaces.

We introduce a smooth quadratic conformal functional and its weighted version $W_2=\sum_e β^2(e)\quad W_{2,w}=\sum_e (n_i+n_j)β^2(e),$ where $β(e)$ is the extrinsic intersection angle of the circumcircles of the triangles of the mesh sharing the edge $e=(ij)$ and $n_i$ is the valence of vertex $i$. Besides minimizing…

The paper examines conditions for Kähler-Einstein metrics on deformations of Fano manifolds.

The theoretical basis for a candidate variational principle for the information bottleneck (IB) method is formulated within the ambit of the generalized nonadditive statistics of Tsallis. Given a nonadditivity parameter $q$, the role of the \textit{additive duality} of nonadditive statistics ($q^*=2-q$) in relating…

The paper proves parabolic gap theorems for Yang-Mills energy.

We study circle packings with the combinatorics of a triangulated disk in the plane and parametrize deformations of circle packings in terms of vertex rotation and cross ratios. We show that there is a Weierstrass representation formula relating infinitesimal deformations of circle packings to discrete minimal surfaces…

Study shows global invertibility in nonlinear elasticity with vanishing self-repulsion term.

Study on isometric submanifolds with preserved Gauss map metrics.

We establish the conjectured area-angular momentum-charge inequality for stable apparent horizons in the presence of a positive cosmological constant, and show that it is saturated precisely for extreme Kerr-Newman-de Sitter horizons. As with previous inequalities of this type, the proof is reduced to minimizing an `ar…

Paper proves various types of varieties minimize a specific energy.

On $Spin^c$ manifolds, we study the Energy-Momentum tensor associated with a spinor field. First, we give a spinorial Gauss type formula for oriented hypersurfaces of a $Spin^c$ manifold. Using the notion of generalized cylinders, we derive the variationnal formula for the Dirac operator under metric deformation and po…