Extends Teichmüller distance concept to non-distance maps.
problem Defining distance metrics for non-distance functions.
method Generalizes horofunction compactification to non-distance maps.
result Defines horofunction counterpart to Teichmüller distance.
Finite mapping class groups for Heegaard splittings with distance ≥ 3, but not for distance 2.
problem Finiteness of mapping class groups for Heegaard splittings.
method Analysis of Heegaard splittings with distances 1, 2, and 3.
result Mapping class groups are finite for Heegaard splittings with distance ≥ 3, but not for distance 2.
A distance-squared function is one of the most significant functions in the application of singularity theory to differential geometry. Moreover, distance-squared mappings are naturally extended mappings of distance-squared functions, wherein each component is a distance-squared function. In this paper, compositions of…
Paper proves circle packings converge to Riemann mapping for Jordan domains.
problem Proving discrete conformal maps converge to Riemann mapping.
method Establishing solvability theorem for inversive distance circle packings.
result Bowers-Stephenson's conjecture for Jordan domains is proven.
Any generalized distance-squared mapping of equidimensional case has singularities, and their singularity types are wrapped into mystery in higher dimensional cases. Any generalized distance-squared mapping of equidimensional case is not injective. Nevertheless, in this paper, it is shown that the non-singular property…
The article explains Rao distances and conformal mappings for 3D objects.
problem Calculating distances and preserving angles in 3D objects.
method Proposed constructions of distances and angle-preserving mappings.
result Application to virtual tourism and line integrals in complex planes.
A distance-squared function is one of the most significant functions in the application of singularity theory to differential geometry. In this paper, we define naturally extended mappings of distance-squared functions, wherein each component is a distance-squared function. We investigate the properties of these mappin…
We define generalized distance-squared mappings, and we concentrate on the plane to plane case. We classify generalized distance-squared mappings of the plane into the plane in a recognizable way.
Maps preserving Carathéodory distance between symmetric domains are rigid.
problem Rigidity of maps preserving Carathéodory distance between bounded symmetric domains.
method Large-scale geometry of Carathéodory distance, horocompactification, Gromov product.
result Maps preserving Carathéodory distance are rigid and either holomorphic or antiholomorphic.
Study characterizes quasi-isometric embeddings of maps from cusped surfaces into moduli space.
problem Characterizing quasi-isometric embeddings of maps from cusped surfaces into moduli space.
method Investigates shrinking maps from a cusped hyperbolic surface into the moduli space of closed Riemann surfaces, considering quasi-isometric embeddings with respect to Teichmüller distance and intrinsic distance.
result Characterizations of quasi-isometric embeddings are solely determined by the map's monodromy under mild conditions.
This is a survey article on distance-squared mappings and related topics.
Algorithm aligns 3D density maps using Wasserstein distance.
problem Aligning 3D density maps in cryogenic electron microscopy.
method Minimizing 1-Wasserstein distance after rigid transformation using Bayesian optimization.
result Improved accuracy and efficiency in protein molecule alignment.
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.
Proves existence of maps with controlled small curvatures.
problem Existence of locally distance-increasing maps with controlled curvatures.
method Proves existence using controlled small curvatures.
result Existence of locally distance-increasing maps with controlled small curvatures.
No-collision maps improve manifold learning for image data.
problem Lack of geometric feature sensitivity in traditional distance measures.
method Developed no-collision transportation maps and distances.
result No-collision distances provide isometry for translations and dilations.
The Lorentzian length, which is one of the most significant functions in Lorentzian geometry, is a complex-valued function. Its square gives a real-valued non-degenerate quadratic function. In this paper, we define naturally extended mappings of Lorentzian distance-squared functions, wherein each component is a Lorentz…
Study distance maps on spaces with curvature bound, proving regularity and sphere theorem.
problem Regularity of distance maps on geodesically complete spaces with curvature bound above.
method Define and prove regularity of distance maps as Hurewicz fibrations.
result Sphere theorem for geodesically complete CAT(1) spaces.
Smooth maps preserve distances on specific revolution surfaces.
problem Existence of smooth maps on revolution surfaces.
method Proving existence of maps preserving distances on meridians and parallels.
result Smooth maps exist from revolution surfaces to Euclidean plane.
Paper generalizes Schwarz Lemma for VT harmonic maps with conditions.
problem Generalizing Schwarz Lemma for a specific type of harmonic maps.
method Conditions on eigenvalues and Ricci curvature are used to prove the lemma.
result Schwarz Lemma for VT harmonic maps proved with distance and volume decreasing properties.
Generalized distance-squared mappings are quadratic mappings of Rm into Rℓ of special type. In the case that matrices A constructed by coefficients of generalized distance-squared mappings of R2 into Rℓ (ℓ≥3) are full rank, the generalized distance-square…
We show that if the Hempel distance of a Heegaard splitting is larger than three then the mapping class group of the Heegaard splitting is isomorphic to a subgroup of the mapping class group of the ambient 3-manifold. This implies that given two handlebody sets in the curve complex for a surface that are distance at le…
Proves rigidity of maps between manifolds with scalar curvature constraints.
problem Lipschitz rigidity problem in scalar curvature geometry.
method Harmonic map heat flow coupled with Ricci flow.
result Continuous maps between manifolds with scalar curvature constraints are either isometries or have scalar curvature strictly less than the sphere.
Maps between Hadamard manifolds are quasi-isometric to harmonic maps.
problem Understanding the relationship between quasi-isometric maps and harmonic maps on Hadamard manifolds.
method Extending a previous result to quotient spaces of Hadamard manifolds by convex cocompact discrete groups.
result Locally quasi-isometric maps to Hadamard manifolds are within bounded distance from a unique harmonic map.
Study spectral distances on compact RCD spaces.
problem Understanding spectral convergence in RCD spaces.
method Established relationships between different spectral convergences and constructed a spectral approximation map.
result Found canonical spectral approximation map for RCD spaces.
New compactification of Teichmüller space via renormalized volume.
problem Compactify Teichmüller space with new distance.
method Horocompactification with renormalized volume.
result Translation length of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes equals hyperbolic volume of mapping tori.
We show that if M is a closed three manifold with a Heegaard splitting with sufficiently big "handlebody distance" then the subgroup of the mapping class group of the Heegaard surface, which extend to both handlebodies is finite. As a corollary, this implies that under the same hypothesis, the mapping class group of …
Study quasisymmetric maps on hyperbolic plane boundaries.
problem Identify quasisymmetric maps corresponding to specific lambda lengths and flip distances.
method Analyze maps on Farey triangulation, relate to shearing coordinates and flip distance.
result Identify quasisymmetric maps corresponding to pinched lambda lengths and flip distances.
For localization and mapping of indoor environments through WiFi signals, locations are often represented as likelihoods of the received signal strength indicator. In this work we compare various measures of distance between such likelihoods in combination with different methods for estimation and representation. In pa…
In 2001, J. Hempel proved the existence of Heegaard splittings of arbitrarily high distance by using a high power of a pseudo-Anosov map as the gluing map between two handlebodies. We show that lower bounds on distance can also be obtained when using a high power of a suitably chosen Dehn twist. In certain cases, we ca…
Study on Frechet distance properties for paths and graphs.
problem Understanding topological properties of Frechet distance spaces.
method Proving path-connectedness of Frechet distance spaces and metric balls.
result Spaces of paths and graphs under Frechet distance are path-connected.
Study connects curvature bounds to map existence and flow solutions.
problem Existence of lower scalar curvature bounds and measures.
method Relates curvature bounds to map existence and backward limit of Ricci flow solutions.
result Sufficient condition for existence of limiting scalar curvature measure.
Study describes singularities of distance squared functions on singular surfaces.
problem Characterizing singularities of distance squared functions on singular surfaces.
method Using smooth map-germs Sk, Bk, Ck, and F4 singularities, the study describes singularities via blowing-ups. result Characterization of singularities of wave-fronts and caustics of singular surfaces.
New algorithm estimates transport maps with nearly optimal error.
problem Estimating smooth transport maps efficiently and accurately.
method Solving semi-dual formulation of optimal transport with kernel sums-of-squares.
result Statistical L2 error on maps nearly matches minimax lower-bounds. In this note, we show that the solution to the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface system in any codimension is unique in the space of distance-decreasing maps. This follows as a corollary of the following stability theorem: if a minimal submanifold Σ is the graph of a (strictly) distance-decreasing map, then $…
The paper studies horofunction compactifications of symmetric cones under Finsler distances.
problem Understanding horofunction compactifications of symmetric cones under Finsler distances.
method Establishing a correspondence between horofunction compactifications of symmetric cones and normed spaces, using Thompson and Hilbert distances.
result Explicit extensions of the exponential map and characterizations of horofunctions for Thompson and Hilbert distances.
Kim-Milman flow map stable under regular target measures
problem Stability of Kim-Milman flow map under target measure variations
method Stability in relative entropy and 2-Wasserstein distance result Lipschitz stability up to logarithmic factor
We show that a small perturbation of the boundary distance function of a simple Finsler metric on the n-disc is also the boundary distance function of some Finsler metric. (Simple metric form an open class containing all flat metrics.) The lens map is map that sends the exit vector to the entry vector as a geodesic c…
We introduce an asymmetric distance function, which we call the `left Hausdorff distance function', on the space of geodesic laminations on a closed hyperbolic surface of genus at least 2. This distance is an asymmetric version of the Hausdorff distance between compact subsets of a metric space. We prove a rigidity res…
The paper connects geometric and topological concepts to bound distances between metric spaces.
problem Bounding distances between metric spaces using Gromov-Hausdorff distance.
method Using Borsuk-Ulam theorems and Vietoris-Rips complexes, the paper obstructs the existence of certain continuous maps between complexes to bound discontinuities of functions.
result The paper provides new bounds on Gromov-Hausdorff distances between spheres of different dimensions.
The paper optimizes estimating transport maps between distributions.
problem Estimating optimal transport maps between distributions.
method Plugin approach using optimal couplings and extensions.
result Minimax optimality of the proposed estimators.
Study of f-neighbors in Riemannian manifolds, proving infinite set of distances.
problem Exploring variations of Hopf theorem in Riemannian manifolds.
method Investigates continuous maps of compact Riemannian manifolds to Rm and introduces f-neighbors. result Set of distances realized as visual f-neighbors is infinite. Many mobile robots rely on 2D laser scanners for localization, mapping, and navigation. However, those sensors are unable to correctly provide distance to obstacles such as glass panels and tables whose actual occupancy is invisible at the height the sensor is measuring. In this work, instead of estimating the distance…
Develops potential theory for WZW equation in Kähler potentials space.
problem Solving the Wess--Zumino--Witten equation in Kähler potentials.
method Introduces ω-harmonicity on graphs to characterize the WZW equation and uses subharmonic distance. result Shows solvability of Dirichlet problem and approximation by finite-dimensional maps.
The paper introduces a statistical distance matrix for better feature representation and clustering.
problem Lack of detailed distance representation between feature elements.
method Extended traditional statistical distance to a matrix form (statistical distance matrix) and applied hierarchical clustering.
result The statistical distance matrix with clustering (Information Mandala) provides clearer and geometrically arranged feature representations.
We classify generalized distance-squared mappings of Rn+1 into R2n+1 (n≥1) having generic central points. Moreover, we show that there does not exist a universal bad set Σ⊂(Rn+1)2n+1 in the case of this dimension-pair.
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for manifold learning that combines the Earthmover's distance (EMD) with the diffusion maps method for dimensionality reduction. We demonstrate the potential benefits of this approach for learning shape spaces of proteins and other flexible macromolecules using a simulated dat…
We prove that a quasi-isometric map, and more generally a coarse embedding, between pinched Hadamard manifolds is within bounded distance from a unique harmonic map.
New bounds on curve distances on surfaces of arbitrary genus.
problem Understanding distances between curves on surfaces of arbitrary genus.
method Analyzing the action of mapping class groups on curve complexes.
result Dehn twists increase distances between certain curves by at least 4.