In infinite dimensional Heisenberg group, degenerate distances linked to unbounded curvature.
problem Degenerate distances and unbounded curvature in infinite dimensional Heisenberg group.
method Construct left invariant weak Riemannian and sub-Riemannian metrics, adapt sectional curvature definition.
result Degenerate distances coincide with unbounded sectional curvature.
Maps on Sasakian manifolds limit to sub-Riemannian distance bounds.
problem Understanding sub-Riemannian distances on Sasakian manifolds.
method Parallel and mirror maps along geodesics of a taming Riemannian metric.
result Limits of transport maps outside sub-Riemannian cut-locus provide bounds on sub-Riemannian distance.
Manifolds uniquely identified by boundary distance differences.
problem Identifying Riemannian manifolds by their boundary distances.
method Distance difference representation on non-convex boundaries without restrictions.
result Complete Riemannian manifolds uniquely determined by their boundary distances.
Laplacian of distance function shows negative infinity at cut locus points.
problem Understanding the Laplacian of distance functions on Riemannian manifolds.
method Analyzing the Laplacian of the distance function to a point on a smooth Riemannian manifold.
result The Laplacian of the distance function is −∞ at points of the cut locus. A new metric mav offers a practical alternative to costly Riemannian distance.
problem Efficiently compute Riemannian distance on SE(3) invariant metrics.
method Propose mav distance, defined as Riemannian length of a curve.
result Mav distance offers a trainable invariant for geometric deep learning.
The paper establishes Sobolev inequalities between Riemannian metrics and their distance functions.
problem Establishing a theory of Sobolev inequalities for Riemannian metrics and distance functions.
method Analyzing the sub-critical case $p < rac{m}{2}$, proving a Sobolev inequality linking $L^{ rac{p}{2}}$ bounds on metrics to Lq bounds on distance functions. result A Sobolev inequality exists between Riemannian metrics and their distance functions, leading to a convergence theorem.
Study distance functions on manifolds linking geometry to topology.
problem Understanding the relationship between curvature and topology on manifolds.
method Analyzing distance functions and their connection to manifold geometry.
result Alternative proofs of theorems linking curvature and topology.
Study proves finiteness for distance functions on curved surfaces with controlled curvature.
problem Understanding distance functions on curved surfaces with Hölder continuous curvature.
method Proves a finiteness principle using Whitney extension theory for geodesics and points on Riemannian surfaces with Hölder continuous curvature.
result Establishes a finiteness principle for isometric embedding of metric spaces into Riemannian surfaces with controlled curvature.
In this paper, we discuss how a Gromov-Hausdorff-like distance function over the space of all isometric classes of compact Ck-Riemannian manifolds should be defined in the aspect of the Riemannan submanifold theory, where k≥1. The most important fact in this discussion is as follows. The Hausdorff distance fun…
Sub-Riemannian spectral distance defined using eigenfunctions of sub-Laplacian
problem Sub-Riemannian geometry and eigenvalues of sub-Laplacian
method Embedding manifold into Hilbert space using eigenfunctions
result Defined spectral distance between sub-Riemannian manifolds
Study on estimating distances between covariance operators and Gaussian processes.
problem Estimating distances between covariance operators and Gaussian processes.
method Riemannian distances, concentration results for Hilbert space-valued random variables, RKHS covariance and cross-covariance operators.
result Both distances converge in the Hilbert-Schmidt norm and can be consistently and efficiently estimated.
The paper is devoted to the large scale geometry of the Heisenberg group H equipped with left-invariant Riemannian distances. We prove that two such distances have bounded difference if and only if they are asymptotic, i.e., their ratio goes to one, at infinity. Moreover, we show that for every left-invariant…
Study on surfaces of genus g≥1 in 3D contact sub-Riemannian manifolds, proving finiteness or infiniteness of induced distance.
problem Determining the finiteness of the induced distance on surfaces of genus g≥1 in 3D contact sub-Riemannian manifolds.
method Analyzing the structural stability of the finiteness/not-finiteness of the induced distance on closed surfaces of genus g≥1.
result Closed surfaces of genus g≥1 can be embedded in such a way that the induced distance is either always finite or always infinite.
Exploring distance functions on spacetime models.
problem No canonical distance function exists for Lorentzian manifolds.
method Comparing Riemannianization and null distance function approaches.
result Concrete comparison of distance functions in GRW setting.
Proofs Fisher-Rao distance on Gaussian covariance manifold.
problem Proving Fisher-Rao distance on Gaussian covariance manifold.
method Basic Riemannian geometry.
result Proof of Fisher-Rao distance on covariance cone.
Inequalities linking entropy, Fisher info, Stein discrepancy, and Wasserstein distance on Riemannian manifolds.
problem Linking entropy, Fisher info, Stein discrepancy, and Wasserstein distance on Riemannian manifolds.
method Deriving inequalities linking these measures on Riemannian manifolds.
result Strengthening and extending existing inequalities to Riemannian manifolds.
Total curvatures of certain hypersurfaces are continuous.
problem Continuity of curvatures in geometric settings.
method Hausdorff distance for hypersurfaces and convex bodies in Riemannian manifolds and Cartan-Hadamard spaces.
result Total generalized mean curvatures are continuous.
The paper is concerned with the properties of the distance function from a closed subset of a Riemannian manifold, with particular attention to the set of singularities.
Study validates Michor-Mumford conjecture in infinite dimensional Hilbertian H-type groups.
problem Validation of Michor-Mumford conjecture in infinite dimensional Hilbertian H-type groups.
method Introduced infinite dimensional Hilbertian H-type groups with weak, graded, left invariant Riemannian metrics and proved the vanishing of geodesic distance and local unboundedness of sectional curvature.
result Validation of Michor-Mumford conjecture linking geodesic distance vanishing to local unboundedness of sectional curvature.
The paper converts metric bounds to distance function Hölder bounds and proves compactness theorems.
problem Proving geometric stability results with scalar curvature bounds.
method Transforming Lp bounds to Hölder bounds for distance functions. result Compactness theorems and convergence guarantees for Riemannian manifolds.
The paper describes distances on Sol-type groups using novel geometric techniques.
problem Understanding distances on Sol-type groups.
method New technique of Euclidean curve surgery to describe uniformly roughly geodesic paths.
result The rough isometry type of distances on Sol-type groups is determined by a specific metric restriction.
Study on volume of tubes and concentration in Riemannian geometry.
problem Understanding concentration loci in Riemannian manifolds and their relation to tube volumes.
method Provided a general formula for tube volumes, specialized to totally geodesic submanifolds, and investigated concentration loci.
result Explicitly proved concentration for codimension one cases and explored characterizations in Wasserstein and Box distances.
Proves conjecture about geodesic foliations in Riemannian planes.
problem Geodesic foliations with bounded distance in non-flat Riemannian planes.
method Analyzes total curvature and visibility properties to prove conjecture.
result Proves conjecture in two specific cases.
Bounds on geodesic distances on Stiefel manifold derived from new metrics.
problem Improving geodesic computation algorithms and understanding Stiefel manifold.
method New geometric insights and Lipschitz constants for geodesic distances.
result Explicit bounds on geodesic distances and conditions for attaining bounds.
New method calculates Ricci curvature from distances between weighted volumes.
problem Calculating Ricci curvature for weighted Riemannian manifolds.
method Asymptotic retrieval of generalized Ricci tensor from scaled metric derivatives of Wasserstein 1-distances.
result Limiting coarse curvature of random graphs converges to generalized Ricci tensor.
Estimates manifold distances using graph Laplacian, proving consistency.
problem Estimating distances in compact Riemannian manifolds.
method Graph Laplacian estimates of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, bounding errors.
result Proof of consistency for manifold distances.
In this paper we show that, under some curvature assumptions the integral of distance function on a compact Riemannian manifold is bounded below by the product of diameter, volume and a constant only depending on the dimension.
Several important algorithms for machine learning and data analysis use pairwise distances as input. On Riemannian manifolds these distances may be prohibitively costly to compute, in particular for large datasets. To tackle this problem, we propose a distance approximation which requires only a linear number of geodes…
The Heston model is a popular stock price model with stochastic volatility that has found numerous applications in practice. In the present paper, we study the Riemannian distance function associated with the Heston model and obtain explicit formulas for this function using geometrical and analytical methods. Geometric…
Rigidity theorem for discrete metric spaces embedded in Riemannian surfaces.
problem Understanding the rigidity of discrete metric spaces embedded in Riemannian surfaces.
method Proving that certain discrete metric spaces are rigidly embedded in the Euclidean plane or other Riemannian surfaces.
result Riemannian embeddings of certain discrete metric spaces are rigid, meaning they cannot be deformed without changing distances.
The Virasoro-Bott group endowed with the right-invariant L2-metric (which is a weak Riemannian metric) has the KdV-equation as geodesic equation. We prove that this metric space has vanishing geodesic distance.
Completes the space of vector-valued one-forms on manifolds.
problem Metric incompleteness of the space of full-ranked one-forms.
method Distance equality and quotient structures.
result Concrete description of the metric completion of the space of full-ranked one-forms.
We consider reconstruction of a manifold, or, invariant manifold learning, where a smooth Riemannian manifold M is determined from intrinsic distances (that is, geodesic distances) of points in a discrete subset of M. In the studied problem the Riemannian manifold (M,g) is considered as an abstract metric space w…
Catenaries defined on any Riemannian surface using intrinsic distance.
problem Defining catenaries on Riemannian surfaces.
method Defining catenaries as critical points of a potential functional, calculating potential with intrinsic distance, and characterizing using curvature.
result Characterization of catenaries on various Riemannian surfaces.
The aim of this paper is the study of the geodesic distance in operator groups with several Riemannian metrics. More precisely we study the geodesic distance in self-adjoint operator groups with the left invariant Riemannian metric induced by the infinite trace and extend known results about the completeness of some cl…
Paper presents efficient computation of robust Wasserstein distance using Riemannian optimization.
problem Intractability of optimizing Projection Robust Wasserstein (PRW) distance due to non-convexity and non-smoothness.
method Riemannian optimization to efficiently compute PRW/Wasserstein Projection Pursuit (WPP) distance.
result The original formulation of PRW/WPP can be efficiently computed in practice, providing better behavior than its convex relaxation.
Euclidean nets reveal properties of higher-dimensional manifolds.
problem Characterize the geometry of manifolds based on discrete Euclidean distances.
method Isometric embeddings and properties of geodesics.
result Manifolds share properties with Euclidean space in terms of geodesics and distances.
We introduce a notion of geodesic curvature kζ for a smooth horizontal curve ζ in a three-dimensional contact sub-Riemannian manifold, measuring how much a horizontal curve is far from being a geodesic. We show that the geodesic curvature appears as the first corrective term in the Taylor expansion of the sub-Riem…
Length metrics can be closely approximated by conformally flat metrics.
problem Approximating length metrics with conformally flat metrics.
method Uniform approximation of length metrics by conformally flat Riemannian metrics.
result Any length metric on \(\mathbb{R}^d\) can be uniformly approximated by conformally flat Riemannian metrics.
Paper reconstructs compact Riemannian manifolds from travel time data.
problem Reconstructing compact Riemannian manifolds from partial travel time data.
method Embedding in function space, studying distance function regularity.
result Reconstruction of compact Riemannian manifolds from travel time data.
A new model encodes distances and topology in latent variables.
problem Modeling dissimilarity data with latent variables and invariances.
method Isometric Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model using Riemannian geometry and variational inference.
result The model can encode invariances in learned manifolds.
Research shows that certain metric spaces cannot contain rigid structures and provides evidence for loose embeddings into Euclidean spaces.
problem The inability of certain metric spaces to contain rigid structures like regular simplices or equidistant sequences.
method Proof of non-embeddability of certain metric spaces into finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces and a local-to-global principle for loose embeddability.
result Compact Riemannian manifolds cannot contain arbitrarily large regular simplices or long equidistant sequences, suggesting loose embeddings into Euclidean spaces.
We introduce Gaussian-type measures on the manifold of all metrics with a fixed volume form on a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension ≥3. For this random model we compute the characteristic function for the L2 (Ebin) distance to the reference metric. In the Appendix, we study Lipschitz-type distance betwee…
Proposes a Riemannian optimization for policy improvement in MDPs.
problem Optimizing policy functions in Markov decision processes (MDPs).
method Riemannian proximal optimization algorithm with Gaussian mixture model (GMM).
result Guaranteed convergence and efficacy demonstrated in preliminary experiments.
Inspired by the Gromov-Hausdorff distance, we define the intrinsic flat distance between oriented m dimensional Riemannian manifolds with boundary by isometrically embedding the manifolds into a common metric space, measuring the flat distance between them and taking an infimum over all isometric embeddings and all c…
Generalizes Connes's tangent groupoid for sub-Riemannian geometry.
problem Calculating tangent cones in sub-Riemannian geometry.
method Constructs a completion of MimesMimesR+imes using sub-Riemannian metric. result Calculates all tangent cones in Gromov-Hausdorff distance.
Sphere theorems for specific manifolds with curvature constraints.
problem Sphere theorems for Riemannian manifolds with scalar curvature bounds and non-collapsed RCD(n−1,n) spaces. method Analysis of scalar curvature and mean distance constraints.
result Established sphere theorems for the specified manifolds.
Proposes ridge regression on Riemannian manifolds for time-series prediction.
problem Time-series prediction on Riemannian manifolds.
method Combines Riemannian least-squares fitting via Bézier curves, empirical covariance on manifolds, and Mahalanobis distance regularization.
result Significant error reduction in synthetic spherical experiments and hurricane forecasting.