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The paper studies rigidity and continuity in nonlinear elasticity on manifolds and hypersurfaces.

Analyzes properties of stiffness tensors for elastic wave imaging.

New discrete curves defined in space forms with geometric properties.

The paper generalizes the Cauchy-Schwarz-Bunyakovsky inequality and applies it to elasticity problems.

Reconstructing Finsler manifolds from sphere data.

New method weaves paper strips for designing curved surfaces with elasticity.

The paper studies the free elastic flow of closed curves and finds their asymptotic shape converges to a circle.

New jellyfish found in various flows.

Geometrically reformulates elasticity theory using exterior calculus.

We are concerned with underlying connections between fluids, elasticity, isometric embedding of Riemannian manifolds, and the existence of wrinkled solutions of the associated nonlinear partial differential equations. In this paper, we develop such connections for the case of two spatial dimensions, and demonstrate tha…

We consider an infinite 3-dimensional elastic continuum whose material points experience no displacements, only rotations. This framework is a special case of the Cosserat theory of elasticity. Rotations of material points are described mathematically by attaching to each geometric point an orthonormal basis which give…

Study geodesics in constrained curve spaces, including elastic curves and concentric circles.

Helical ribbons arise in many biological and engineered systems, often driven by anisotropic surface stress, residual strain, and geometric or elastic mismatch between layers of a laminated composite. A full mathematical analysis is developed to analytically predict the equilibrium deformed helical shape of an initiall…

This paper presents a phenomenon in neural networks that we refer to as \textit{local elasticity}. Roughly speaking, a classifier is said to be locally elastic if its prediction at a feature vector $\bx'$ is \textit{not} significantly perturbed, after the classifier is updated via stochastic gradient descent at a (labe…

The energy minimization problem associated to uniform, isotropic, linearly elastic rods leads to a geometric variational problem for the rod centerline, whose solutions include closed, knotted curves. We give a complete description of the space of closed and quasiperiodic solutions. The quasiperiodic curves are paramet…

In this paper, the elastic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map $Ξ_g$ is studied for the stationary elasticity system in a compact Riemannian manifold $(Ω,g)$ with smooth boundary $\partial Ω$. By overcoming methodological difficulties, we explicitly get matrix-valued full symbol for the elastic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map $Ξ_g$. We …

Study models deep learning training dynamics using locally elastic SDEs to reveal feature separability.

New method shortens and straightens curves, proving convergence and well-posedness.

BAEN-SVM improves SVM robustness to noisy data.

A geometrical interpretation of the $G$-structures associated to elastic material bodies is given. In addition, characterizations of their integrability are obtained. Since the lack of integrability is a geometrical measure of the lack of homogeneity, the corresponding inhomogeneity conditions are obtained

The paper studies surfaces with spherical curvature lines and their generation by constrained elastic curves.

We derive a continuum model for incompatible elasticity as a variational limit of a family of discrete nearest-neighbor elastic models. The discrete models are based on discretizations of a smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,\mathfrak{g})$, endowed with a flat, symmetric connection $\nabla$. The metric $\mathfrak{g}$ deter…

For a bounded domain $Ω\subset {\Bbb R}^n$ with smooth boundary, we explicitly calculate the first two coefficients of the asymptotic expansion of the trace of the strongly continuous semigroup associated with the Navier-Lamé operator on $Ω$ as $t\to 0^+$. These coefficients (i.e., spectral invariants) provide precise …

We introduce elastic geodesic grids for easy-to-fabricate, deployable structures.

New elastic energy for irregular curves defined through polygonal approximations.

Study calculates geometric invariants from Navier-Lamé spectrum.

Unified theory solves strain compatibility and elasticity of origami metamaterials.

Classifies pinned $p$-elasticae and finds unique optimality exponents.

Metric anomalies arising from a distribution of point defects (intrinsic interstitials, vacancies, point stacking faults), thermal deformation, biological growth, etc. are well known sources of material inhomogeneity and internal stress. By emphasizing the geometric nature of such anomalies we seek their representation…

DET unifies geometric and functional alignment for high-dimensional scientific data.

The paper deals with the Weyl equation which is the massless Dirac equation. We study the Weyl equation in the stationary setting, i.e. when the spinor field oscillates harmonically in time. We suggest a new geometric interpretation of the stationary Weyl equation, one which does not require the use of spinors, Pauli m…

The paper deals with the Weyl equation which is the massless Dirac equation. We study the Weyl equation in the stationary setting, i.e. when the the spinor field oscillates harmonically in time. We suggest a new geometric interpretation of the stationary Weyl equation, one which does not require the use of spinors, Pau…

We address the geometric Cauchy problem for surfaces associated to the membrane shape equation describing equilibrium configurations of vesicles formed by lipid bilayers. This is the Euler-Lagrange equation of the Canham-Helfrich-Evans elastic curvature energy subject to constraints on the enclosed volume and the surfa…

Researchers reconstruct stiffness tensors from limited data in anisotropic elasticity.

Theory models nonlinear soft tissue elasticity and remodeling using extended Finsler geometry.

State-of-the-art subspace clustering methods are based on expressing each data point as a linear combination of other data points while regularizing the matrix of coefficients with $\ell_1$, $\ell_2$ or nuclear norms. $\ell_1$ regularization is guaranteed to give a subspace-preserving affinity (i.e., there are no conne…

Transforms curves and surfaces for efficient geometric analysis.

Paper presents a new approach to continuum mechanics using port-Hamiltonian framework.

In this paper, we extend the geometric descent method recently proposed by Bubeck, Lee and Singh to tackle nonsmooth and strongly convex composite problems. We prove that our proposed algorithm, dubbed geometric proximal gradient method (GeoPG), converges with a linear rate $(1-1/\sqrtκ)$ and thus achieves the optimal …

Unified approach classifies stable and minimal elastic curves.

This paper introduces an elasticity reconstruction method based on local displacement observations of elastic bodies. Sparse reconstruction theory is applied to formulate the underdetermined inverse problems of elasticity reconstruction including unobserved areas. An online local clustering scheme called a superelement…

Starting from the vortex filament flow introduced in 1906 by Da Rios, there is a hierarchy of commuting geometric flows on space curves. The traditional approach relates those flows to the nonlinear Schrödinger hierarchy satisfied by the complex curvature function of the space curve. Rather than working with this infin…

Cauchy used infinitesimals in differential geometry and integral geometry.

Elastic Cash adjusts money supply to stabilize interest rates.

Paper finds a counter-example invalidating a spectral asymptotic algorithm.

For decades, the sphere eversion has been a classic subject for mathematical visualization. The 1998 video "The Optiverse" shows geometrically optimal eversions created by minimizing elastic bending energy. We contrast these minimax eversions with earlier ones, including those by Morin, Phillips, Max, and Thurston. The…

Characterizes null Lagrangians in Cosserat elasticity.

Approximate 3D elastic curves with exact constraints