PGF kernels analyze spherical data using generalized RBF kernels.
problem Analysis of spherical data.
method Introduced PGF kernels and a semi-parametric learning algorithm.
result PGF kernels generalize RBF kernels for spherical data.
A new method estimates the number of clusters on spherical data.
problem Estimating the number of clusters in spherical data.
method Spherical X-means (SX-means) method assuming von Mises-Fisher distributions.
result Shows the performance of SX-means in estimating the number of clusters.
The paper classifies equivariant test configurations for spherical varieties.
problem Classifying equivariant test configurations for spherical varieties.
method Combinatorial data classification of equivariant normal R-test configurations.
result Finiteness theorem of central fibers of G-equivariant special R-test configurations.
A new spherical Sliced-Wasserstein distance for data on spheres.
problem Defining Wasserstein distance on manifolds, especially spheres.
method Closed-form solutions of the Wasserstein distance on the circle and a new spherical Radon transform.
result A novel spherical Sliced-Wasserstein (SW) discrepancy for data on spheres.
DELIMIT is a framework extension for deep learning in diffusion imaging, which extends the basic framework PyTorch towards spherical signals. Based on several novel layers, deep learning can be applied to spherical diffusion imaging data in a very convenient way. First, two spherical harmonic interpolation layers are a…
The paper studies surfaces with spherical curvature lines and their generation by constrained elastic curves.
problem Understanding surfaces with spherical curvature lines and their generation mechanisms.
method The approach involves Lie sphere transformations, Legendre curves, and polynomial conserved quantities of connections.
result Lie applicable surfaces with exactly one family of spherical curvature lines are generated by the lift of constrained elastic curves.
Developed a diffusion model on spherical data, addressing geometric and stochastic challenges.
problem Diffusion models on spherical data face unique geometric and stochastic issues.
method Extended spectral diffusion to spherical harmonics, introducing modified stochastic differential equations.
result Introduced a geometry-dependent inductive bias in spectral diffusion models.
Corrected whitening restores orthogonality in high-dimensional spherical Gaussian mixtures.
problem In high-dimensional data, standard whitening fails to preserve orthogonality of mixture means.
method Derived exact limits for whitened means dot products using random matrix theory, constructed a corrected whitening matrix.
result Corrected whitening allows for improved estimation of spherical Gaussian mixtures in the large-dimensional regime.
Study proposes initial data sets for solving gravitational equations, proving energy estimates.
problem Solving the constraint equations in the evolutionary form.
method Proposes a family of initial data sets, proving Penrose-like energy estimates.
result Established existence of solutions for specific cases.
Develops spherical density-equalizing maps for closed surfaces.
problem Lack of methods for genus-0 closed surfaces.
method Conformal parameterization onto unit sphere, density equalization, quasi-conformal theory, harmonic energy, landmark constraints.
result Landmark-aligned spherical density-equalizing maps balancing different distortion measures.
Unique solutions found for wave-like decaying null infinity equations.
problem Wave-like decaying null infinity equations with spherically symmetric Einstein-scalar-field.
method Local and global unique solutions for small initial data.
result Sharp decaying condition for unique solutions.
The paper shows how to use hyperplanes and hyperballs interchangeably using inversive geometry.
problem Tackles the interchangeability of hyperplanes and hyperballs in discriminative boundaries.
method Applies inversive geometry to transform Euclidean data into spherical data and back, providing explicit formulae.
result Shows a duality between hyperspherical caps and hyperballs, providing explicit formulae to map between them.
New 4-manifold invariant defined from trisection diagrams.
problem Defining a new 4-manifold invariant from trisection diagrams.
method Algebraic data from bimodule categories and spherical fusion categories, described diagrammatically.
result Includes Hopf algebraic invariants and modular fusion category invariants.
New method uses spherical convolutional Wasserstein distance to validate climate models.
problem Ensuring the accuracy of global climate models.
method Spherical convolutional Wasserstein distance to measure model differences.
result Phase 6 models show modest improvements in realistic climatologies.
Paper computes stability of Q-Fano spherical varieties using test configurations and Futaki invariants.
problem Stability of Q-Fano spherical varieties.
method Test configurations, Futaki invariants, intersection numbers.
result Equivalence of stability criteria and existence of Kähler-Ricci g-solitons.
Proves stability of spacetime Penrose inequality for spherical symmetric initial data.
problem Stability of the Penrose inequality for spherical symmetric spacetimes.
method Formulated and proved stability statement using spherical symmetry and asymptotically flat initial data.
result Initial data must arise from an isometric embedding into a static spacetime close to Schwarzschild spacetime.
Paper resolves spherical curvature flow problem.
problem Existence of ideal circle patterns in spherical background geometry.
method Introduces a combinatorial geodesic curvature flow in spherical background geometry.
result Characterizes sufficient and necessary conditions for flow convergence.
Unique global solutions found for specific initial data.
problem Einstein-scalar-field equations with specific initial conditions.
method Spherically symmetric analysis of small, slowly decaying data.
result Unique global solutions exist for the equations.
The paper simplifies K-stability conditions for spherical varieties.
problem K-stability of polarized spherical varieties.
method Expressed K-stability in combinatorial terms, provided sufficient conditions.
result G-uniform K-stability provides a checkable condition for existence of constant scalar curvature metrics.
Paper introduces spherical knot mosaics for knot and link invariants.
problem Representing knots on a sphere with tiles.
method Tiling a 2-sphere with 11 knot mosaic tiles to define new invariants.
result New knot invariants derived from spherical mosaic tiling.
Effective Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for spherical varieties.
problem Finding effective K-stability criteria for spherical varieties.
method Formulated an effective variant of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture and reviewed effective K-stability criteria for spherical varieties.
result Effective K-stability criteria can be computed given combinatorial data.
Study geodesics on spherical polyhedra, estimating their number.
problem Counting simple closed geodesics on spherical polyhedra.
method Examined regular spherical octahedra, cubes, and tetrahedra.
result Estimated the number of simple closed geodesics on spherical polyhedra.
Abstract properties of hypersurface data analyzed in spherical symmetry.
problem Analyzing hypersurface data in spherical symmetry.
method Study of hypersurface data properties, gauge group, and curvature tensor.
result General solution of Einstein field equations in vacuum and Lorentzian ambient signature.
The abstract proves spherical surface decompositions with conical singularities.
problem Decomposing surfaces with spherical metrics and conical singularities.
method Geometric triangulations and irreducible components of standard shapes.
result Spherical polygons, including half-spherical concave polygons, can be arbitrarily complicated.
For the n-dimensional spherical pedal curve pedγ,P with respect to an n-dimensional spherical unit speed curve γ and a given point P∈Sn, we define the spherical orthotomic curve of γ relative to the point P, and classify singularities of spherical orthotomic curves.
Branched covers between Riemann surfaces are associated with certain combinatorial data, and Hurwitz existence problem asks whether given data satisfying those combinatorial constraints can be realized by some branched cover. We connect recent development in spherical conic metrics to this old problem, and give a new m…
Spherical data is found in many applications. By modeling the discretized sphere as a graph, we can accommodate non-uniformly distributed, partial, and changing samplings. Moreover, graph convolutions are computationally more efficient than spherical convolutions. As equivariance is desired to exploit rotational symmet…
Study shows directional convergence for neural networks under spherical symmetry.
problem Learning linear predictors with neural networks under spherically symmetric data.
method Analysis of gradient flow and gradient descent for two-layer and deep linear networks.
result Directional convergence guarantees with exact convergence rate for specific network architectures.
Study spherical curves with curvature dependent on distance to a great circle.
problem Understanding spherical curves with curvature dependent on distance to a great circle.
method Introducing spherical angular momentum, characterizing known curves, finding new families, and obtaining arc length parametrizations.
result New families of spherical curves with intrinsic equations in elementary or Jacobi elliptic functions.
A new distribution addresses scalability and numerical stability issues of the vMF.
problem Scalability and numerical stability issues in sampling from the von Mises-Fisher (vMF) distribution.
method Proposes the Power Spherical distribution, retaining vMF's properties but addressing its drawbacks.
result Demonstrates the stability of Power Spherical distributions and applies it to a variational auto-encoder.
Study calculates eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for spherical triangles and finds fundamental gap behavior.
problem Understanding eigenvalues and gaps in spherical triangles.
method Explicit computation of Dirichlet eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for spherical lunes and triangles.
result Fundamental gap of spherical triangles increases as the angle of the lune decreases.
We prove a criterion for K-stability of a Q-Fano spherical variety with respect to equivariant special test configurations, in terms of its moment polytope and some combinatorial data associated to the open orbit. Combined with the equivariant version of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture for Fano manifolds p…
Study of continuous symmetries in Nahm data and BPS monopoles.
problem Solutions to Nahm's equations with continuous symmetries.
method Classification of Ansätze and construction of Nahm data.
result Construction of new BPS monopoles with spherical symmetry.
SRCA reduces high-dimensional data to lower dimensions while preserving geometric structures.
problem High-dimensional datasets with underlying geometric structures.
method Spherical Rotation Component Analysis (SRCA) incorporating geometric loss functions.
result SRCA provides a low-rank spherical representation of data with general theoretic guarantees.
New findings show fundamental group is not audible in spherical space forms.
problem Isospectral spherical space forms with non-cyclic fundamental groups.
method Revisited and found new examples of spherical space forms.
result Fundamental group is not audible among spherical space forms.
Existence and uniqueness of spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere via spherical curves.
problem Existence and uniqueness of spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere.
method Continuous function of distance to axis, spherical angular momentum of spherical curves.
result Existence and uniqueness theorem for spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere.
The reductivity of a spherical curve represents how reduced the spherical curve is. It is unknown if there exists a spherical curve whose reductivity is four. In this paper we give an unavoidable set for spherical curves with reductivity four by considering 4-gons.
The paper improves inequalities for nearly spherical sets using quermassintegrals.
problem Improving inequalities for nearly spherical sets.
method Establishing quantitative Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for quermassintegrals.
result Lower bounds on the (k,m)-isoperimetric deficit found using spherical deviation and asymmetry. The reductivity of a spherical curve is the minimal number of a local transformation called an inverse-half-twisted splice required to obtain a reducible spherical curve from the spherical curve. It is unknown if there exists a spherical curve whose reductivity is four. In this paper, an unavoidable set of configuratio…
New approach for principal curves on spherical data.
problem Dimension reduction of spherical data.
method Projection of data onto a continuous curve on a sphere.
result Stationary principal curves on a sphere.
We show that we can obtain a reducible spherical curve from any non-trivial spherical curve by four or less inverse-half-twisted splices, i.e., the reductivity, which represents how reduced a spherical curve is, is four or less. We also discuss unavoidable sets of tangles for spherical curves.
The paper classifies Landsberg spherically symmetric Finsler metrics in various dimensions.
problem Investigating compatibility conditions on spherically symmetric Finsler metrics.
method Using the inverse problem of calculus of variations, the paper focuses on Landsberg and Berwald types.
result All Landsberg spherically symmetric manifolds in higher dimensions are either Riemannian or have specific geodesic spray formulas.
FHDMs achieve optimal convergence in spherically supported data.
problem Statistical convergence properties of FHDMs for spherical data.
method FHDMs leverage random generation time and Doob's h-transform to optimize convergence rate.
result Achieve minimax optimal convergence rate in total variation for spherically supported Sobolev smooth data.
Point cloud is the most fundamental representation of 3D geometric objects. Analyzing and processing point cloud surfaces is important in computer graphics and computer vision. However, most of the existing algorithms for surface analysis require connectivity information. Therefore, it is desirable to develop a mesh st…
Paper proves trapped surface formation for Einstein-Maxwell-charged scalar field system.
problem Formation of trapped surfaces in Einstein-Maxwell-charged scalar field system.
method Generalized Christodoulou's approach for spherical symmetry and improved for Minkowskian data.
result Improved bound on trapped surface formation for Minkowskian data.
For a convex body on the Euclidean unit sphere the spherical convex floating body is introduced. The asymptotic behavior of the volume difference of a spherical convex body and its spherical floating body is investigated. This gives rise to a new spherical area measure, the floating area. Remarkably, this floating area…
Study on spherical CR manifolds with non-trivial Chern classes.
problem Understanding Chern classes in spherical CR manifolds.
method Construction and proof of constraints on Chern classes.
result Topological obstruction to spherical CR structures on contact manifolds.
Proves local existence and extension principle for Einstein Yang--Mills system with spherical symmetry.
problem Local existence and stability of the spherically symmetric Einstein Yang--Mills system.
method Employed an L2-based method to prove local existence and establish an extension principle. result Established local existence and extension principle for the SSEYM with H1 data.