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48 results for geodesic computation

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.

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.

In this paper we present the full details of the construction of a Morse-Floer type homology related to the super-quadratic perturbation of the Dirac-geodesic model. This homology is computed explicitly using a Leray-Serre type spectral sequence and this computation leads us to several existence results of Dirac-geodes…

2017-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study geodesic curves on Heisenberg group, classify them, and compute first step of quadrature.

problem Classifying geodesic curves on the Heisenberg group.
method Completely integrable Hamiltonian system, classification of geodesic curves.
result Complete classification of geodesic curves on the Heisenberg group.

New method to bound Laplacian eigenvalues of geodesic balls.

problem Computing upper bounds for the first eigenvalue of Laplacian on geodesic balls.
method Transforming metric tensor into rotationally symmetric form preserving geodesic sphere areas.
result Upper bound for Laplacian eigenvalues is sharp and computable using geodesic sphere areas.

The curve graphs are not locally finite. In this paper, we show that the curve graphs satisfy a property which is equivalent to graphs being uniformly locally finite via Masur--Minsky's subsurface projections. As a direct application of this study, we show that there exist computable bounds for Bowditch's slices on tig…

2013-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We give an algorithm to compute the stable lengths of pseudo-Anosovs on the curve graph, answering a question of Bowditch. We also give a procedure to compute all invariant tight geodesic axes of pseudo-Anosovs. Along the way we show that there are constants 1<a1<a21<a_1<a_2 such that the minimal upper bound on `slices' of …

2013-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we study 1/k geodesics, those closed geodesics that minimize on all subintervals of length L/kL/k, where LL is the length of the geodesic. We develop new techniques to study the minimizing properties of these curves on doubled polygons, and demonstrate a sequence of doubled polygons whose closed geodesics…

2019-09-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Geodesic envelopes stay uniformly bounded in specific Teichmüller spaces.

problem Understanding the behavior of geodesics in Teichmüller spaces.
method Identifying extremal geodesics, computing Fenchel-Nielsen twisting, and estimating earthquake path lengths.
result Width of geodesic envelopes is uniformly bounded in specific Teichmüller spaces.

New method for geodesics of multivariate normals, derived from a Toda lattice.

problem Computing geodesics of multivariate normal distributions.
method Using block Cholesky decomposition and a natural Riemannian submersion, a new Toda lattice type Lax pair is derived.
result A new Toda lattice type Lax pair derived from geodesics and block Cholesky decomposition.

We describe a polynomial-time algorithm to compute a (tight) geodesic between two curves in the curve graph. As well as enabling us to compute the distance between a pair of curves, this has several applications to mapping classes. For example, we can use these geodesics to compute the asymptotic translation length, Ni…

2016-09-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers compute de Rham cohomology of geodesic flow foliations on hyperbolic surfaces.

problem Answering a problem posed by Haefliger and Li about geodesic flow foliations.
method Unitary representation theory of PSL(2, R) and Hodge decompositions of de Rham complexes.
result Computed de Rham cohomology of weak stable foliations for various coefficients.

Study geodesic complexity in homogeneous Riemannian manifolds.

problem Geodesic motion planning and complexity in homogeneous Riemannian manifolds.
method Riemannian geometry, stratifications of cut loci, and properties of homogeneous manifolds.
result Established new bounds on geodesic complexity and computed its value for homogeneous Riemannian manifolds.

Study compact Willmore surfaces without complex structure convergence, computing energy loss and geodesic lengths.

problem Compactness of Willmore surfaces without complex structure convergence.
method Compute energy loss in neck and geodesic lengths in Grassmannian G(2,n)G(2,n).
result Limit of Gauss map image is a geodesic in G(2,n)G(2,n) with computable length.

This paper aims to systematically and comprehensively initiate a foundation for using concepts from computational differential geometry as instruments for power flow computing and research. At this point we focus our discussion on the static case, with power flow equations given by quadratic functions defined on voltag…

2019-03-26abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a general framework for studying pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms on translation surfaces. This new approach, among other consequences, allows us to compute the systole of the Teichmueller geodesic flow restricted to the hyperelliptic connected components, settling a question of Farb. We stress that all proofs a…

2017-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Geodesically equivalent Finsler metrics share invariant volume forms and first integrals.

problem Understanding shared properties of geodesically equivalent Finsler metrics.
method Computing first integrals as coefficients of a characteristic polynomial.
result Geodesically invariant functions are first integrals of geodesically equivalent Finsler metrics.

We consider equitorsion second type almost geodesic mappings of a non-symmetric affine connection space in this article. Using different computational methods, we obtained some invariants of these mappings. Last generalized Thomas projective parameter and Weyl projective tensor as invariants of a second type almost geo…

2016-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study magnetic geodesics on odd spheres, computing critical energy values.

problem Understanding magnetic geodesics on odd-dimensional spheres.
method Explicit computation and analysis of submanifolds and symmetries.
result Energy values determine magnetic geodesic connectivity on spheres.

Given a space it is easy to obtain the system of geodesic equations on it. In this paper the inverse problem of reconstructing the space from the geodesic equations is addressed. A procedure is developed for obtaining the metric tensor from the Christoffel symbols. The procedure is extended for determining if a second …

2007-11-08abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper calculates the volume growth of hyperbolic surfaces with short geodesics.

problem Understanding the volume growth of hyperbolic surfaces with short geodesics.
method Introduced a function L(g) to measure the length of geodesics and computed the volume growth rate.
result The volume of surfaces with short geodesics is equal to V_g almost surely as g approaches infinity.

We compute the asymptotics, as R tends to infinity, of the number of closed geodesics in Moduli space of length at most R, or equivalently the number of pseudo-Anosov elements of the mapping class group of translation length at most R.

2008-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, the Riemannian gradient algorithm and the natural gradient algorithm are applied to solve descent direction problems on the manifold of positive definite Hermitian matrices, where the geodesic distance is considered as the cost function. The first proposed problem is control for positive definite Hermiti…

2019-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that the geodesic period spectrum of a Riemannian 2-orbifold all of whose geodesics are closed depends, up to a constant, only on its orbifold topology and compute it. In the manifold case we recover the fact proved by Gromoll, Grove and Pries that all prime geodesics have the same length. In the appendix we pa…

2016-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗

New data-driven Cartan connection tracks complex vascular structures.

problem Tracking complex vascular structures in multi-orientation images.
method Formulated a data-driven Cartan connection on M2\mathbb{M}_2 for geodesic tracking.
result Improved geodesic tracking of vascular trees with globally optimal curves.

A new snake model improves segmentation of SEM images.

problem Efficiently segmenting overlapping electronic structures in SEM images.
method Geodesic tracking on projective line bundle with a geometric criterion for switching between fast spatial snakes and minimizing geodesics.
result Improved robust and automatic segmentation of overlapping electronic structures in SEM images.

Researchers compute contact structures for null geodesics on specific spacetimes.

problem Understanding the canonical contact structure of null geodesics in spacetimes.
method Explicit calculations for specific spacetimes, including lens spaces and three-dimensional spacetimes.
result Contact structures on null geodesics are derived from the Lorentz prolongation of spacetimes.

Generalizes Rips' result on hyperbolic spaces to metric spaces, showing collapses for tree metrics.

problem Understanding the contractibility of Vietoris-Rips complexes in metric spaces.
method Extending Rips' result using geodesic defect and apparent pairs gradient.
result Vietoris-Rips complexes collapse to subforests for finite tree metrics.