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48 results for affine geometry

The paper explores fully affine maximal curves and their properties.

problem Whether the hyperbola is the fully affine maximal curve in R^2.
method Utilizing evolution equations for curves, the second variational formula for fully affine extremal curves in R^2 was obtained.
result The fully affine maximal curves in R^2 are much more abundant and include explicit curves y=x^α (α is a constant and α∉{0,1,1/2,2}).

The paper proves an inequality and describes a curve flow in centro-affine geometry.

problem Proving the isoperimetric inequality in centro-affine plane geometry.
method Investigating a curve flow with centro-affine curvature, expressed as a nonlinear parabolic equation.
result Closed convex curves may converge to ellipses under the described flow.

The study examines closed manifolds with ray nil-affine structures and their completeness.

problem Characterizing closed manifolds with ray nil-affine structures.
method Analyzing properties of nilpotent spaces and flag manifolds, applying rank conditions and automorphism group actions.
result Closed manifolds are either complete or their developing map is a cover onto the complement of a nil-affine subspace.

New theorem extends Hadamard's to transversely affine geometry.

problem Transversely affine foliations and their properties.
method Introduced and investigated novel transversely affine foliations, extending Hadamard's theorem.
result Transversely affine version of Hadamard's theorem for foliations.

Abstract mathematical formulas for statistical structures and curvatures.

problem Developing formulas for statistical structures and curvatures.
method Proving new formulas and theorems for statistical structures and curvatures.
result Generalized formulas for statistical structures and curvatures.

Geodesic connectedness proved for statistical manifolds with divisible cubic forms.

problem Geodesic connectedness of affine connections on statistical manifolds with divisible cubic forms.
method Analogy with Hopf-Rinow theorem in Riemannian geometry, establishing geodesic completeness.
result Geodesic connectedness established for statistical manifolds with divisible cubic forms.

BN refines local partition geometry in piecewise-affine networks during training.

problem Understanding the effect of BN on the function realized during training in piecewise-affine networks.
method Analyzing the geometry of switching hyperplanes and affine-region partition conditioned on a mini-batch.
result BN increases expected local partition refinement in ReLU and piecewise-affine networks.

Unified description of aesthetic curves through self-affinities.

problem Characterizing log-aesthetic curves and their properties.
method Reformulating and proving self-affinities of planar curves, integrating equiaffine geometry.
result Unified characterization of constant curvature curves in similarity and equiaffine geometries.

The classical Fundamental Theorem of Affine Geometry states that for n2n\geq 2, any bijection of nn-dimensional Euclidean space that maps lines to lines (as sets) is given by an affine map. We consider an analogous characterization of affine automorphisms for compact quotients, and establish it for tori: A bijection o…

2016-12-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Main ideas of the differential geometry on affine bundles are presented. Affine counterparts of Lie algebroid and Poisson structures are introduced and discussed. The developed concepts are applied in a frame-independent formulation of the time-dependent and the Newtonian mechanics.

2005-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

A common approach to metric-affine, local Poincaré, special-relativistic and Galilei spacetime geometry is developed. Starting from an affine composite bundle, we introduce local reference frames and their evolution along worldlines and we study both, absolute and relative simultaneity postulates, giving rise to altern…

2014-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Let (M,w,L) be a symplectic manifold endowed with a lagrangian foliation L. Liberman and Weinstein have shown that the leaves of L are endowed with an affine structure. In this paper we provide links between the theories of affine manifolds and symplectic geometry. Using the work of Donaldson who have shown the existen…

2004-06-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New calculus for invariant differential operators in parabolic geometries.

problem Understanding invariant differential operators for parabolic geometries.
method Developed a universal calculus to construct all affine invariants of Weyl connections.
result A natural procedure to determine affine invariants of Weyl connections.

A frame independent formulation of analytical mechanics in the Newtonian space-time is presented. The differential geometry of affine values i.e., the differential geometry in which affine bundles replace vector bundles and sections of one dimensional affine bundles replace functions on manifolds, is used. Lagrangian a…

2004-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We examine the local geometry of affine surfaces which are locally symmetric. There are 6 non-isomorphic local geometries. We realize these examples as Type A, Type B, and Type C geometries using a result of Opozda and classify the relevant geometries up to linear isomorphism. We examine the geodesic structures in this…

2017-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

New insights from centro-affine geometry solve a key geometric conjecture.

problem Log-Brunn-Minkowski conjecture in centro-affine differential geometry.
method Interpreting the log-Brunn-Minkowski conjecture as a spectral problem and using centro-affine differential geometry.
result Global uniqueness and inequalities in the log-Minkowski problem for certain convex bodies.

The paper studies a specific centro-affine invariant hypersurface flow in R^(n+1).

problem Existence and uniqueness of a centro-affine invariant hypersurface flow.
method Investigates the flow's existence and uniqueness, explores its properties in centro-affine and Euclidean settings, and investigates long-time behavior.
result The hypersurface converges asymptotically toward an ellipsoid via systematically investigating evolutions of centro-affine invariants.

Motivated by the ubiquity of control-affine systems in optimal control theory, we investigate the geometry of point-affine control systems with metric structures in dimensions two and three. We compute local isometric invariants for point-affine distributions of constant type with metric structures for systems with 2 s…

2012-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Smooth manifolds have been always understood intuitively as spaces with an affine geometry on the infinitesimal scale. In Synthetic Differential Geometry this can be made precise by showing that a smooth manifold carries a natural structure of an infinitesimally affine space. This structure is comprised of two pieces o…

2018-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper shows that energy futures yield curves have an affine geometry.

problem Estimating dynamic behavior of yield curves from data while avoiding arbitrage.
method Finite dimensional models for yield curves, diffusion coefficients, and compatibility conditions.
result The compatibility of yield curves with diffusion coefficients forces an affine geometry.

The aim of this paper is to investigate the differential geometry of immersed surfaces in three-dimensional normed spaces from the viewpoint of affine differential geometry. We endow the surface with a useful Riemannian metric which is closely related to normal curvature, and from this we re-calculate the Minkowski Gau…

2017-09-02abs ↗pdf ↗

New method computes affine normal directions efficiently for sparse polynomials.

problem Computing affine normal directions is computationally expensive in high dimensions.
method Reduces third-order tensor contraction to matrix-free formulation using log-determinant gradient.
result Scalable implementations with near-linear scaling in dimension and sparsity.

In [DM] it was asked whether all flat holomorphic Cartan geometries (G,H) on a complex torus are translation invariant. We answer this affimatively under the assumption that the complex Lie group G is affine. More precisely, we show that every holomorphic Cartan geometry of type (G,H), with G a complex affine Lie group…

2017-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The classical concept of affine locally symmetric spaces allows a generalization for various geometric structures on a smooth manifold. We remind the notion of symmetry for parabolic geometries and we summarize the known facts for 1|1|--graded parabolic geometries and for almost Grassmannian structures, in particular.…

2009-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies extremal hypersurfaces in ellipsoids using centro-affine geometry.

problem Characterizing extremal hypersurfaces in centro-affine geometry.
method Analyzing invariant submanifold flows and deriving variational formulas.
result Circles on S2(1)\mathbb{S}^2(1) with radius 6/3\sqrt{6}/3 are equi-centro-affine maximal.

In this paper we study the general affine geometry of curves in affine space A2A^2. For a regular plane curves we define two kinds of moving frames. The first is of minimal order in all moving frames.The second is the Frenet moving frame. We get the moving equations of these moving frames. And we prove that curvature a…

2016-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Natural analogs of Lie brackets on affine bundles are studied, based on natural examples from differential geometry and analytical mechanics. In particular, a close relation to Lie algebroids and, by a sort of duality, to affine analogs of Poisson structures is established as well as affine versions of the complete lif…

2002-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗