Proves rigidity of certain transformations on specific geometric manifolds.
problem Rigidity of conformal circle-preserving transformations on Berwaldian manifolds.
method Analyzes properties of Berwaldian manifolds and flag curvatures.
result Rigidity condition for nontrivial conformal circle-preserving transformations.
Study scattering rigidity for Hamiltonian systems, proving lens rigidity for non-trapping Finsler manifolds.
problem Scattering rigidity for Hamiltonian systems on manifolds with boundary.
method Linearization of travel times, X-ray transform over Hamiltonian curves, Hamiltonian light ray transform.
result Prove semiglobal lens rigidity of non-trapping Finsler manifolds.
The classical Liouville Theorem on conformal transformations determines local conformal transformations on the Euclidean space of dimension ≥3. Its natural adaptation to the general framework of Riemannian structures is the 2-rigidity of conformal transformations, that is such a transformation is fully determined…
Study recovers Lorentzian metrics from boundary data, proving local rigidity.
problem Recovering a Lorentzian metric from scattering data on a boundary.
method Analyzes jet and real analyticity of metrics near lightlike points.
result Metric can be recovered up to gauge transformations near lightlike strictly convex points.
Study on magnetic field and potential systems to prove rigidity results.
problem Proving rigidity for magnetic field and potential systems.
method Explicit relation between ray transform and magnetic one, applying results from [DPSU07].
result Existence of a generic set of simple MP-systems with the same boundary action function must be k-gauge equivalent.
We consider the boundary rigidity problem for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We show injectivity of the X-ray transform in several cases and consider the non-linear inverse problem which consists of recovering a metric from boundary measurements for the geodesic flow.
Invariants for surfaces up to rigid transformations, with a comeagre subset retrieval algorithm.
problem Identifying compact surfaces up to rigid transformations.
method Degree four polynomials in moments of delta function, effective inversion algorithm.
result Invariants and retrieval algorithm work on a comeagre subset of surfaces.
Study on recovering Lorentzian metrics from scattering data.
problem Recovering Lorentzian metrics from scattering data on a boundary.
method Analyzing the role of boundary distance functions and linearizing the light ray transform.
result Scattering rigidity can be reduced to boundary rigidity of magnetic systems.
Classification of Finslerian spaces with nontrivial concircular transformations.
problem Classifying Finslerian spaces with nontrivial concircular transformations.
method Proving the existence of at most two critical points in a conformal circle-preserving transformation and presenting a diffeomorphism classification based on these critical points.
result Presented a diffeomorphism classification of Finslerian manifolds that admit nontrivial conformal circle-preserving transformations.
Study inverse problems for twisted geodesic flows on manifolds.
problem Understanding inverse problems for twisted geodesic flows.
method Generalized ray transforms and tensor tomography.
result New insights into rigidity problems for twisted geodesic flows.
New method for curve comparison using iterated integrals and moving frames.
problem Comparing curves robustly to noise and transformations.
method Moving frame method paired with log-signature transform.
result Algorithmic construction of invariants for curve equivalence under rigid motions.
New proof confirms noncompact locally conformally flat manifolds are compact.
problem Rigidity of Schouten tensor under conformal transformations.
method Proof of Cheng's theorem using modified Schouten tensor.
result Noncompact locally conformally flat manifolds are compact.
Embeds Riemannian manifolds with Anosov flows, linking classical and new theorems.
problem Embedding Riemannian manifolds with Anosov flows.
method Isometric embedding into a closed Riemannian manifold with Anosov geodesic flow.
result Direct link between classical and new theorems.
We prove that the groupoid of transformations of rigid structures on surfaces has a finite presentation as a 2-groupoid establishing a result first conjectured by G.Moore and N.Seiberg. An alternative proof was given by B.Bakalov and A.Kirillov Jr. We present some applications to TQFTs. This is also related to recent w…
Compact Finslerian manifolds don't admit non-trivial circle-preserving transformations.
problem Characterizing Finslerian manifolds without circle-preserving transformations.
method Analyzing critical points of conformal transformations to prove manifold rigidity.
result Compact Finslerian manifolds are Riemannian and conformally diffeomorphic to standard spheres, Euclidean spaces, or hyperbolic spaces.
Study shows local rigidity for hyperbolic cusped manifolds under certain metric perturbations.
problem Local rigidity of manifolds with hyperbolic cusps under nonlinear metric perturbations.
method Combines linear and nonlinear analysis, using the linear theory from [arXiv:1907.01809] and the generalized X-ray transform operator Π2. result Manifolds with hyperbolic cusps are locally rigid for nonlinear perturbations that slightly decrease at infinity.
Study of Lorentzian manifolds with specific transformations.
problem Characterizing Lorentzian manifolds with essential pseudo-groups of local conformal transformations.
method Generalizing recent results, using Gromov's theory of rigid transformations.
result Locally conformally homogeneous Lorentzian manifolds are either conformally flat or locally conformally equivalent to homogeneous plane waves.
Study on determining metrics from minimal surface areas, extending earlier work.
problem Determining a Riemannian manifold with boundary from minimal surface areas.
method Linearized forward operator of minimal surface transform, double fibration transforms, Bolker condition.
result Invertibility of the minimal surface transform on analytic manifolds.
Researchers prove rigidity of 2D manifolds from boundary geodesic lengths.
problem Reconstructing a Riemann surface from boundary geodesic lengths.
method Re-casting lens data as generalized Riemannian circles and solving a system of equations.
result Essentially optimal results on boundary and lens rigidity for 2D manifolds.
New metric structures generalize Sasakian and cosymplectic structures, proving rigidity and finding conditions.
problem Generalizing Sasakian and cosymplectic structures to new metric structures.
method Introducing weak structures and proving rigidity of Sasakian structures.
result Any weak Sasakian structure is homothetically equivalent to a Sasakian structure.
Under the assumption that the X-ray transform over symmetric solenoidal 2-tensors is injective, we prove that smooth compact connected manifolds with strictly convex boundary, no conjugate points and a hyperbolic trapped set are locally marked boundary rigid.
The paper proves stability for Möbius transformations in high dimensions.
problem Quantifying how close a map is to a Möbius transformation.
method Local average conformal-isoperimetric deficit controls map deviation.
result Optimal bounds on the deviation of maps from Möbius transformations.
We study the boundary and lens rigidity problems on domains without assuming the convexity of the boundary. We show that such rigidities hold when the domain is a simply connected compact Riemannian surface without conjugate points. For the more general class of non-trapping compact Riemannian surfaces with no conjugat…
New proof shows all conformal fields are Killing on specific spaces.
problem Infinitesimal conformal rigidity on Damek-Ricci spaces.
method Formulated as PDEs, analyzed locally and directly.
result Constructive proof of rigidity without global methods.
In this paper, we continue studying the 6-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian space V^6(g_{ij}) with signature [++--], which admits projective motions, i. e. continuous transformation groups preserving geodesics. In particular, we determine a necessary and sufficient condition that the 6-dimensional rigid h-spaces have const…
We prove rigidity facts for groups acting on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds by preserving unparameterized geodesics.
The paper proves rigidity of certain Dirac operators using theta functions.
problem Rigidity of twisted Dirac operators on specific bundles.
method Lefschetz formula, Atiyah-Bott localization, theta function properties.
result Lefschetz numbers are constant under certain conditions, proving operator rigidity.
In this paper, we prove that every real analytic totally nondegenerate model CR manifold of length >= 3 has rigidity. This result was actually conjectured before by Valerii Beloshapka as the so-called "maximum conjecture". It follows that the transformation Lie group of all CR automorphisms associated with each of the …
Geometric variations of objects, which do not modify the object class, pose a major challenge for object recognition. These variations could be rigid as well as non-rigid transformations. In this paper, we design a framework for training deformable classifiers, where latent transformation variables are introduced, and …
We propose a geometric method for quantifying the difference between parametrized curves in Euclidean space by introducing a distance function on the space of parametrized curves up to rigid transformations (rotations and translations). Given two curves, the distance between them is defined as the infimum of an energy …
We prove that a topological contact isotopy uniquely defines a topological contact Hamiltonian. Combined with previous results from [MS11], this generalizes the classical one-to-one correspondence between smooth contact isotopies and their generating smooth contact Hamiltonians and conformal factors to the group of top…
Proves quaternionic analog of Cartan's theorem and counts arithmetic chains.
problem Understanding transformations of quaternionic hyperbolic spaces.
method Analyzes chain-preserving transformations and arithmetic chains in quaternionic Heisenberg group.
result Proves analog of Cartan's theorem and provides counting and equidistribution results.
New Gromov-Wasserstein metric controls rigidity and incorporates prior knowledge.
problem Inflexible Gromov-Wasserstein distance and lack of feature alignment.
method Augmented Gromov-Wasserstein distance with feature alignments and prior knowledge.
result Improved performance in single-cell multi-omic alignment and transfer learning.
Study stability of rigid motions and Möbius transformations on spheres, proving new rigidity estimates.
problem Stability of rigid motions and Möbius transformations on spheres.
method Investigates both linear and nonlinear stability aspects of rigid motions and Möbius transformations of S^(n-1) into R^n.
result Optimal rigidity estimates for isometric and conformal maps from S^(n-1) to R^n, including new Korn-type inequalities.
Injectivity of geodesic ray transform on specific Finsler manifolds proven.
problem Injectivity of geodesic ray transform on spherically symmetric reversible Finsler manifolds.
method Reduction to invertibility of generalized Abel transforms using angular Fourier series and Taylor expansions of geodesics.
result Injectivity of geodesic ray transform proven on specified Finsler manifolds.
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.
This article considers inverse problems on closed Riemannian surfaces whose geodesic flow is Anosov. We prove spectral rigidity for any Anosov surface and injectivity of the geodesic ray transform on solenoidal 2-tensors. We also establish surjectivity results for the adjoint of the geodesic ray transform on solenoidal…
Paper develops a framework for hyperbolic Monge-Ampère equation on strips, proving well-posedness and stability.
problem Addressing the rigidity-flexibility dichotomy for wrinkled patterns in thin elastic sheets.
method Develops hodograph transformation and parametrix-corrector decomposition to handle corner singularities and prove well-posedness.
result Proves existence and uniqueness of hodograph weak solutions and derives energy estimates for stability.
The paper stratifies projective measured laminations and identifies a group of transformations.
problem Stratifying the space of projective measured laminations.
method Introducing a natural stratification and proving rigidity results.
result The group of self-homeomorphisms preserving the stratification is identified with the extended mapping class group.
One of the most challenging problems in the domain of 2-D image or 3-D shape is to handle the non-rigid deformation. From the perspective of transformation groups, the conformal transformation is a key part of the diffeomorphism. According to the Liouville Theorem, an important part of the conformal transformation is t…
In this paper we analyze the local and global boundary rigidity problem for general Riemannian manifolds with boundary (M,g). We show that the boundary distance function, i.e., dg∣∂M×∂M, known near a point p∈∂M at which ∂M is strictly convex, determines g in a suita…
Develops statistical confidence sets for multidimensional scaling.
problem Statistical uncertainty in multidimensional scaling of noisy data.
method Formal statistical framework, distributional convergence results, uniform confidence sets, bootstrap procedures.
result Construction of reliable confidence sets for latent configurations in multidimensional scaling.
A real valued function φ of one variable is called a metric transform if for every metric space (X,d) the composition dφ=φ∘d is also a metric on X. We give a complete characterization of the class of approximately nondecreasing, unbounded metric transforms φ such that the trans…
Geometric problems are usually formulated by means of (exterior) differential systems. In this theory, one enriches the system by adding algebraic and differential constraints, and then looks for regular solutions. Here we adopt a dual approach, which consists to enrich a plane field, as this is often practised in cont…
Proves X-ray transform injectivity on specific manifolds.
problem Injectivity of X-ray transform on closed Anosov manifolds and spherical boundary.
method Perturbative argument of the 0-eigenvalue of elliptic operators via microlocal analysis.
result Generically injective X-ray transform on specified manifolds.
Let g be a Riemannian metric for Rd (d≥3) which differs from the Euclidean metric only in a smooth and strictly convex bounded domain M. The lens rigidity problem is concerned with recovering the metric g inside M from the corresponding lens relation on the boundary ∂M. In this paper…
Unified rigidity theorem for Plateau surfaces in Bn.
problem Rigidity of free-boundary minimal surfaces in Bn. method Analyzing conformal free-boundary minimal immersions of Plateau model cones.
result Every conformal free-boundary minimal immersion of the flat T-cone into Bn is congruent to the flat T-cone. We study two kinds of transformation groups of a compact locally conformally Kahler (l.c.K.) manifold. First we study compact l.c.K. manifolds with parallel Lee form by means of the existence of a holomorphic l.c.K. flow. Next, we introduce the Lee-Cauchy-Riemann (LCR) transformations as a class of diffeomorphisms pres…