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48 results for distance formulas

Using existing technology, we prove a Masur-Minsky style distance formula for flip- graph distance between two triangulations, expressed as a sum of the distances of the projections of these triangulations into arc graphs of the suitable subsurfaces of S.

2015-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New formula and algorithm for computing distances on complex Riemann surfaces.

problem Computing distances on higher-genus Riemann surfaces is challenging due to infinite terms in the formula.
method Derived a computable distance formula and developed an efficient algorithm.
result Reduced distance computation from an infimum to a minimum over a finite set of terms.

The paper analyzes distances and volumes in lens spaces using recursion and formulas.

problem The problem of moments for distances between points on lens spaces.
method Derivation of recursion relations, formulas for moments and moment generating function, explicit formula for ball volumes.
result Explicit formulas for the volume of balls of all radii in lens spaces.

Study exact formula and geodesics for Carnot-Carathéodory distance on 2-step groups.

problem Exact formula and geodesics for Carnot-Carathéodory distance on 2-step groups.
method Combining Varadhan's formula, Loewner's theorem, and the method of stationary phase.
result Characterization of squared sub-Riemannian distance and cut locus on generalized Heisenberg-type groups and star graphs.

The main object of study in the paper is the distance from a point to a line in the Riemannian manifold associated with the Heston model. We reduce the problem of computing such a distance to certain minimization problems for functions of one variable over finite intervals. One of the main ideas in this paper is to use…

2014-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

In a recent work I showed that the family of smooth steep time functions can be used to recover the order, the topology and the (Lorentz-Finsler) distance of spacetime. In this work I present the main ideas entering the proof of the (smooth) distance formula, particularly the product trick which converts metric stateme…

2017-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

New formulas for geodesics on Stiefel and flag manifolds using trust-region method.

problem Computing geodesics and logarithms on Stiefel and flag manifolds.
method Closed-form geodesic formulas, trust-region solver, Fréchet derivatives.
result Efficient computation of geodesic distance and logarithm map.

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…

2013-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

The study examines the asymptotic behavior of extremal length in Teichmüller space.

problem Understanding the asymptotic behavior of extremal length along Teichmüller rays.
method Analyzing the limit of extremal length and deriving formulas for limiting Teichmüller distance and detour metric.
result An explicit formula for the limiting Teichmüller distance and a necessary and sufficient condition for Teichmüller rays to be asymptotic.

We provide a proof and analyze the asymptotic behavior of a formula for the linking number of line segments.

problem The invariant formula for the linking number of line segments and its asymptotic behavior.
method Detailed proof and asymptotic analysis of the formula.
result We provide a proof and analyze the asymptotic behavior of the formula for the linking number of line segments.

Polterovich proved a remarkable closed formula for heat kernel coefficients of the Laplace operator on compact Riemannian manifolds involving powers of Laplacians acting on the distance function. In the case of Kähler manifolds, we prove a combinatorial formula for powers of the complex Laplacian and use it to derive a…

2013-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that many graphs naturally associated to a connected, compact, orientable surface are hierarchically hyperbolic spaces in the sense of Behrstock, Hagen and Sisto. They also automatically have the coarse median property defined by Bowditch. Consequences for such graphs include a distance formula analogous to Mas…

2017-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers compute the full spectrum of Laplace operator on distance spheres in symmetric spaces.

problem Computing the full Laplace spectrum on distance spheres in symmetric spaces.
method Lie-theoretic methods to explicitly compute the spectrum.
result Unified formula for the full spectrum of Laplace operator on distance spheres in symmetric spaces of rank one.

Study entropic regularization of Gaussian measures and processes on Hilbert space.

problem Regularizing 2-Wasserstein distance for infinite-dimensional Gaussian measures and processes.
method Minimum Mutual Information property, closed form formulas, Fréchet differentiability, Sinkhorn barycenter equation.
result Entropic 2-Wasserstein distance and Sinkhorn divergence are Fréchet differentiable in Hilbert space.

Refines d'Alembertian for signed Lorentz distance functions in metric measure spacetimes.

problem Exact representation and bounds of d'Alembertian for signed Lorentz distance functions.
method Metric geometry techniques, localization, Sobolev calculus.
result Distributional d'Alembertian is a signed measure with integration by parts formula.

We present a new blow-up method that allows for establishing the first general formula to compute the perimeter measure with respect to the spherical Hausdorff measure in noncommutative nilpotent groups. This result leads us to an unexpected relationship between the area formula with respect to a distance and the profi…

2014-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Study spider mechanism configuration spaces using squared distance function.

problem Understand configuration spaces of spider mechanisms.
method Use Morse theory of squared distance function from body to fixed point.
result List and describe critical manifolds of squared distance function as products of polygon spaces.

On a complete, connected, locally compact, non-compact geodesic space (X,d)(X,d), we assign each compact set a distance-like function. With the help of these functions, we obtain a pseudo-metric on the space of (non-empty) compact subsets of XX which is less than the Hausdorff distance. The quotient metric space is close…

2019-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Edit distance, also known as Levenshtein distance, is an essential way to compare two strings that proved to be particularly useful in the analysis of genetic sequences and natural language processing. However, edit distance is a discrete function that is known to be hard to optimize. This fact hampers the use of this …

2019-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Distance, normals, and double normals for real plane curves with singularities

problem Relation between normals and double normals and critical points of the squared distance function for real algebraic curves with singularities
method Investigate the topological discriminant of the distance function
result The topological discriminant consists of the evolute and distinguished normal lines at algebraic singular points

Proves existence of unique circle packings on polyhedral surfaces.

problem Existence of unique circle packings on polyhedral surfaces with specified discrete curvature.
method Constructs diffeomorphism between fiber bundles, uses discrete Ricci flow and edge flipping.
result Proves existence of unique inversive distance circle packings.

We give an alternative definition of relative hyperbolicity based on properties of closest-point projections on peripheral subgroups. We also derive a distance formula for relatively hyperbolic groups, similar to the one for mapping class groups.

2010-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper states a formula for the difference of the Holmes-Thompson volumes of two simple Finsler manifolds of arbitrary dimension, in terms of the boundary distances and their derivatives. An application is a preconditioned filling minimality result.

2011-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper investigates quantitative rigidity using Colding's monotonicity formulas for Ricci curvature.

problem Quantifying rigidity in manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.
method Investigates pinching of Colding's monotone functionals and constructs kk-splitting functions.
result Quantitative control of splitting functions by pinching at independent points controls the distance to the nearest cone.

Sharp upper bounds derived for Alexandrov-Fenchel deficit using weighted Minkowski integral formulas.

problem Deriving upper bounds for the Alexandrov-Fenchel deficit.
method Using weighted Minkowski integral formulas and an integral formula for the deficit in Jensen's inequality.
result Quantitative estimates under weaker convexity assumptions, including a distance term.