We introduce median shapes for sets of shapes and prove their existence and regularity.
problem Computing the median of sets of shapes represented as integral currents.
method Developed a theoretical framework and computational methods for median shapes.
result Existence and regularity of medians for sets of shapes with shared boundaries.
Integral currents with boundary of finite mass are integral.
problem Integral currents with boundary of finite mass are integral.
method De Giorgi's structure theorem for integer-valued BV functions and a cylindrical projection argument. result Integral currents with boundary of finite mass are integral.
Unique solutions found for Plateau problems in smooth and continuous calibrations.
problem Finding unique solutions to the Plateau problem for specific types of currents.
method Boundary regularity theory for area-minimizing currents and unique continuation argument.
result Every compactly supported smoothly or continuously calibrated integral current is the unique solution to the Plateau problem for its boundary data.
Currents represent generalized surfaces studied in geometric measure theory. They range from relatively tame integral currents representing oriented compact manifolds with boundary and integer multiplicities, to arbitrary elements of the dual space of differential forms. The flat norm provides a natural distance in the…
Maps preserving mass and injective on boundary are isometries.
problem Stability of mass-preserving maps in integral current spaces.
method Proving rigidity of mass-preserving 1-Lipschitz maps.
result Maps preserving mass and injective on boundary are isometries.
The paper extends geometric surface properties to currents tangent to smooth distributions.
problem Understanding the geometric structure of currents tangent to smooth distributions.
method Analyzing integral and normal currents, focusing on their geometric properties and boundary.
result Integral currents behave like smooth surfaces, while normal currents have a more complex behavior.
We endow each closed, orientable Alexandrov space (X,d) with an integral current T of weight equal to 1, ∂T=0and{(}T)=X, in other words, we prove that (X,d,T) is an integral current space with no boundary. Combining this result with a result of Li and Perales, we show that non-collapsing sequ…
The purpose of this article is to prove existence of mass minimizing integral currents with prescribed possibly non-compact boundary in all dual Banach spaces and furthermore in certain spaces without linear structure, such as injective metric spaces and Hadamard spaces. We furthermore prove a weak∗-compactness theo…
The paper proves a generalized Stokes' Theorem for certain singular submanifolds.
problem Validity of Stokes' Theorem for singular submanifolds and differential forms.
method Combines Lebesgue integration with gauge integration techniques.
result Proves a generalized Stokes' Theorem for integral currents with finite Minkowski content.
We prove several results on Almgren's multiple valued functions and their links to integral currents. In particular, we give a simple proof of the fact that a Lipschitz multiple valued map naturally defines an integer rectifiable current; we derive explicit formulae for the boundary, the mass and the first variations a…
The paper proves convex bodies are minimal fillings and have Lipschitz-volume rigidity.
problem Finding minimal fillings of convex bodies.
method Analyzing integral current spaces and proving rigidity properties.
result Convex bodies are the unique minimal fillings of their boundary metrics among integral current spaces and enjoy Lipschitz-volume rigidity.
Solves a problem posed by Brezis and Mironescu about least mass of area-minimizing currents.
problem Least mass of area-minimizing currents with a given boundary.
method Demonstrates the value of the least mass and compares it to the infimum of areas of smoothly immersed submanifolds.
result The least mass of area-minimizing currents equals the infimum of areas of smoothly immersed submanifolds with the same boundary.
The paper proves existence and partial regularity for Legendrian area-minimizing currents.
problem Existence and partial regularity of Legendrian area-minimizing currents.
method Local minimization and application to the Legendrian Plateau problem.
result Existence and partial regularity of solutions to the Legendrian Plateau problem.
New examples show flat singular sets can be arbitrarily complex.
problem Understanding the structure of singular sets in almost-minimizing currents.
method Construction of specific examples of area almost-minimizing currents.
result Flat singular sets can contain any closed empty interior subset of a plane.
Modern geometric measure theory, developed largely to solve the Plateau problem, has generated a great deal of technical machinery which is unfortunately regarded as inaccessible by outsiders. Some of its tools (e.g., flat norm distance and decomposition in generalized surface space) hold interest from a theoretical pe…
Study on sphere-valued maps, proving energy convergence and current limits.
problem Understanding the behavior of sphere-valued Sobolev maps as their energy grows.
method Proving Gamma-convergence of p-energies to the mass of an integral current. result Jacobian convergence to an area-minimizing current in a cobordism class.
We prove that every one-dimensional real Ambrosio-Kirchheim normal current in a Polish (i.e. complete separable metric) space can be naturally represented as an integral of simpler currents associated to Lipschitz curves. As a consequence a representation of every such current with zero boundary (i.e. a cycle) as an in…
Modern discriminative predictors have been shown to match natural intelligences in specific perceptual tasks in image classification, object and part detection, boundary extraction, etc. However, a major advantage that natural intelligences still have is that they work well for "all" perceptual problems together, solvi…
We study sequences of integral current spaces (Xj,dj,Tj) such that the integral current structure Tj has weight 1 and no boundary and, all (Xj,dj) are closed Alexandrov spaces with curvature uniformly bounded from below and diameter uniformly bounded from above. We prove that for such sequences either the…
Sharp generalization of boundary regularity for area minimizing currents with arbitrary multiplicity.
problem Boundary regularity of area minimizing currents with multiplicity.
method Sharp generalization of Allard's boundary regularity theorem to higher multiplicity settings.
result The set of density Q/2 singular boundary points of T is Hm−3-rectifiable. By Gromov's compactness theorem for metric spaces, every uniformly compact sequence of metric spaces admits an isometric embedding into a common compact metric space in which a subsequence converges with respect to the Hausdorff distance. Working in the class or oriented k-dimensional Riemannian manifolds (with bound…
New method improves smoothness of minimizing currents near singular points.
problem Improving smoothness of minimizing currents near singular points.
method New method to estimate the full singular set of the foliation by minimizers and proof of superlinear decay of closeness.
result Generic smoothness of minimizers improved to n−9−εn for n≥11. A celebrated theorem of Kirby identifies the set of closed oriented connected 3-manifolds with the set of framed links in S3 modulo two moves. We give a similar description for the set of knots (and more generally, boundary links) in homology 3-spheres. As an application, we define a noncommutative version of the Al…
Inspired by the Gromov-Hausdorff distance, we define the intrinsic flat distance between oriented m dimensional Riemannian manifolds with boundary by isometrically embedding the manifolds into a common metric space, measuring the flat distance between them and taking an infimum over all isometric embeddings and all c…
Plateau's problem is to show the existence of an area minimizing surface with a given boundary, a problem posed by Lagrange in 1760. Experiments conducted by Plateau showed that an area minimizing surface can be obtained in the form of a film of oil stretched on a wire frame, and the problem came to be called Plateau's…
The paper examines sequences of metric spaces converging to compact limits with specific properties.
problem Understanding convergence of metric spaces with compact limits.
method Analyzes sequences of metric spaces with increasing distance functions and uniform bounds, proving convergence under certain conditions.
result Uniform and Gromov-Hausdorff convergence and volume preserving intrinsic flat convergence to compact limits.
We prove that if p>1 then the divergence of a Lp-vectorfield V on a 2-dimensional domain Ω is the boundary of an integral 1-current, if and only if V can be represented as the rotated gradient ∇⊥u for a W1,p-map u:Ω→S1. Such result extends to exponents p>1 the result on distribution…
Study shows automorphisms of Markov surfaces share periodic points if they share a common iterate.
problem Study of unlikely intersections for automorphisms of Markov surfaces with positive entropy.
method Arithmetic equidistribution for adelic line bundles, theory of laminar currents, quasi-Fuchsian representation theory.
result Two automorphisms with positive entropy share a Zariski dense set of periodic points if and only if they share a common iterate.
A privacy-preserving framework detects faults in circular economy processes.
problem Lack of shared data across company borders due to privacy concerns.
method Federated Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Secure Multiparty Computation.
result The proposed FedMSPC framework outperforms standard PCA in fault detection.
Study improves boundary smoothness for area-minimizing currents with complex boundaries.
problem Boundary regularity for area-minimizing currents with arbitrary multiplicity.
method Generalization of Allard's boundary regularity theorem.
result Derivation of structural consequences from the generalized theorem.
The paper proves generic transversality and regularity for minimal submanifolds and area-minimizing currents.
problem Transversality and regularity of minimal submanifolds and area-minimizing currents.
method Proves transversality and regularity for generic metrics using Baire category and minimization properties.
result Generic metrics ensure transversality and regularity for minimal submanifolds and area-minimizing currents.
WZW models are abstract conformal field theories with an infinite dimensional symmetry which accounts for their integrability, and at the same time they have a sigma model description of closed string propagation on group manifolds which, in turn, endows the models with an intuitive geometric meaning. We exploit this d…
The study shows that certain metrics on spheres prevent stable tangent cones for area-minimizing boundaries.
problem Preventing stable tangent cones for area-minimizing boundaries under specific metrics.
method Developed a perturbation theorem and used spectral theory and compactness arguments.
result A residual set of metrics on Sn+1 precludes linearly stable tangent cones for area-minimizing boundaries. Defines a new integration method for 1D currents, proving a generalized FTC.
problem Developing a new integration method for 1D integral currents.
method Integrates 1D integral currents using a Henstock-Kurzweil type approach.
result Proves a generalized Fundamental Theorem of Calculus for these currents.
Unique tangent cones found for boundary points of 2D almost-minimizing currents.
problem Characterizing boundary points of two-dimensional almost-minimizing currents.
method Combining epiperimetric inequality and almost-monotonicity formula.
result Tangent cones at singular boundary points are unique.
BIDIFAC integrates multi-platform, multi-cohort data for shared and unique patterns.
problem Integration of multi-platform, multi-cohort data for shared and unique patterns.
method BIDIFAC integrates bidimensionally linked matrices into four components: globally shared, row-shared, column-shared, and single-matrix structural components.
result BIDIFAC reveals shared and unique patterns of variability in multi-platform, multi-cohort data.
Method estimates shared and study-specific factors for multi-study data.
problem Covariance estimation for multi-study data with shared and study-specific components.
method Spectral decomposition for latent factors, surrogate Bayesian regressions for loadings and variances.
result Strong frequentist guarantees and superior performance in simulations and real data.
The paper solves a pricing problem for a multiple reset put option using integral equations.
problem Valuation of a multiple reset put option with reset rights.
method Formulated as a multiple optimal stopping problem, reduced to single optimal stopping problems, solved by induction and integral equations.
result Characterized optimal reset boundaries as solutions to nonlinear integral equations and derived reset premium representations.
Defines a new distance for integral current spaces and proves convergence criteria.
problem Defining a new distance metric for integral current spaces.
method Defines a new distance function and proves convergence criteria.
result Establishes the compactness theorem for integral current spaces using a new distance function.
A 3D area-minimizing current in R^5 has a 2-fold essential singularity.
problem Understanding singularities in area-minimizing currents.
method Construction of a specific current with prescribed boundary properties.
result The boundary regularity theory is dimensionally sharp.
Infinite hyperbolic manifolds share same perimeter-to-volume ratio.
problem Finding hyperbolic manifolds with a fixed perimeter-to-volume ratio.
method Constructing infinitely many hyperbolic manifolds with nonempty boundaries.
result Existence of incommensurable hyperbolic manifolds with a fixed perimeter-to-volume ratio.
This paper defines and studies currents and slices in the Heisenberg group, with new challenges and insights.
problem Defining and studying currents and slices in the Heisenberg group Hn. method Definition and classification of currents, slicing of currents, and analysis of properties.
result New challenges and insights in the study of currents on the Heisenberg group, including a unique slice dimension.
Proposes a method to integrate learner models robustly against misspecifications.
problem Misspecifications in learner models and parameter sharing patterns degrade prediction accuracy.
method Sequentially incorporates additional learners based on user-specified parameter sharing patterns.
result Data-adaptively selects the most suitable way of parameter sharing to enhance predictive performance.
Proves unique continuation for area minimizing currents.
problem Ensuring area minimizing currents match minimal surfaces.
method Analyzes infinite order contact between currents and minimal surfaces.
result Currents and minimal surfaces coincide in a neighborhood.
Study area-minimizing currents with specific boundary properties.
problem Understanding the structure of area-minimizing currents with tangentially immersed boundaries.
method Analyzes n-dimensional area-minimizing currents with boundary constraints. result Near the boundary of the current, the structure is either uncontrolled or a union of controlled hypersurfaces.
We give partial boundary regularity for co-dimension one absolutely area-minimizing currents at points where the boundary consists of a sum of C1,α submanifolds, possibly with multiplicity, meeting tangentially, given that the current has a tangent cone supported in a hyperplane with constant orientation vector; t…
We give partial boundary regularity for co-dimension one absolutely area-minimizing currents at points where the boundary consists of a sum of C1,α submanifolds, possibly with multiplicity, meeting tangentially, given that the current has a tangent cone supported in a hyperplane with constant orientation vector; t…
The entropy-degree theorem applies to Alexandrov spaces with curvature constraints.
problem Geometric obstructions and volume bounds in singular spaces.
method Developed new degree theorem for Alexandrov spaces using integral currents.
result Entropy-volume minimization prevents metric singularities in Gromov-Hausdorff limits.