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48 results for spherical distance functions

Study spherical curves with curvature dependent on distance to a great circle.

problem Understanding spherical curves with curvature dependent on distance to a great circle.
method Introducing spherical angular momentum, characterizing known curves, finding new families, and obtaining arc length parametrizations.
result New families of spherical curves with intrinsic equations in elementary or Jacobi elliptic functions.

A new method using spherical harmonics approximates the Sliced-Wasserstein distance.

problem Approximating the Sliced-Wasserstein distance between probability measures.
method Spherical Harmonics Control Variates (SHCV) method for Monte Carlo approximation of the SW distance.
result SHCV method provides an improved rate of convergence compared to Monte Carlo for general measures.

Paper introduces S3W distance for spherical probability distributions.

problem Comparing spherical probability distributions efficiently and accurately.
method S3W distance using stereographic projection and generalized Radon transform.
result Extensive theoretical analysis and evaluation of S3W performance.

Existence and uniqueness of spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere via spherical curves.

problem Existence and uniqueness of spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere.
method Continuous function of distance to axis, spherical angular momentum of spherical curves.
result Existence and uniqueness theorem for spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere.

Study null surfaces of pseudo-spherical curves in anti-de Sitter space.

problem Characterize null surfaces of pseudo-spherical spacelike framed curves in anti-de Sitter 3-space.
method Introduced nullcone fronts, classified singularities, defined Anti-de Sitter distance-squared functions.
result Relate singularities of nullcone fronts to those of framed curves.

The study bounds the stability of Gaussian mixtures under small perturbations.

problem Stability of Gaussian mixtures under small changes in distribution.
method Deriving an explicit bound on parameter stability of spherical Gaussian Mixture Models (sGMM) in a pre-defined model class.
result Upper bound on parameter distance of close sGMMs to the original sGMM, dependent only on the original model.

A timelike space is a Hausdorff topological space equipped with a partial order relation << and a distance function ρρ satisfying a collection of axioms including a set of compatibility conditions between the partial order relation and the distance function. The distance function is defined only on a subset of the pr…

2016-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on spherical conical metrics and their reducibility on compact Riemann surfaces.

problem Existence and geometric structure of reducible spherical conical metrics.
method Analysis of monodromy groups and geometric cutting of surfaces.
result Existence of reducible spherical conical metrics with saddle points on the same geodesic.

Software package assesses spherical data distributions and clusters.

problem Assessing and clustering spherical data distributions.
method Innovative goodness-of-fit tests and clustering algorithms using kernel-based quadratic distances.
result Efficient and mathematically sound goodness-of-fit tests for spherical data.

A new distance metric for vMF distributions simplifies spherical data analysis.

problem Intractability of normalization constants and lack of suitable geometric metrics for comparing vMF distributions.
method Proposes a Wasserstein-like distance that decomposes vMF distribution discrepancies into angular and concentration components.
result The proposed distance metric induces a latent geometric structure on the space of non-degenerate vMF distributions.

The study explores how to infer the geometry of space forms from similarity comparisons.

problem Inferring the geometry of space forms from unreliable similarity measurements.
method Introducing ordinal capacity and spread, proving their relation to space form properties, and using statistical analysis of similarity measurements.
result The statistical behavior of ordinal spread variables can identify the underlying space form.

Tautness of submanifolds in spheres is preserved under Lie sphere transformations.

problem Invariance of tautness under Lie sphere transformations.
method Extending tautness definition to Legendre submanifolds and using Lie sphere transformations to show invariance.
result Tautness is invariant under Lie sphere transformations.

The paper shows how to use hyperplanes and hyperballs interchangeably using inversive geometry.

problem Tackles the interchangeability of hyperplanes and hyperballs in discriminative boundaries.
method Applies inversive geometry to transform Euclidean data into spherical data and back, providing explicit formulae.
result Shows a duality between hyperspherical caps and hyperballs, providing explicit formulae to map between them.

Proposes ridge regression on Riemannian manifolds for time-series prediction.

problem Time-series prediction on Riemannian manifolds.
method Combines Riemannian least-squares fitting via Bézier curves, empirical covariance on manifolds, and Mahalanobis distance regularization.
result Significant error reduction in synthetic spherical experiments and hurricane forecasting.

New methods optimize functions on hyperbolic and spherical spaces, matching Euclidean rates up to logarithmic factors.

problem Optimizing functions on non-Euclidean spaces like hyperbolic and spherical geometries.
method Introduced accelerated global first-order methods for LL-smooth and geodesically convex functions on hyperbolic and spherical spaces.
result Achieved the same rates as accelerated gradient descent in Euclidean space, up to logarithmic factors.

We prove that the exponential growth rate of the regular language of penetration sequences is smaller than the growth rate of the regular language of normal form words, if the acceptor of the regular language of normal form words is strongly connected. Moreover, we show that the latter property is satisfied for all irr…

2014-03-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The setting for this brief paper is R^3. Distance between two spheres is understood as distance delta between spherical centers. For instance, a Reuleaux tetrahedron T is the intersection of four unit balls satisfying delta=1 pairwise. Volume and surface area of T are already well-known; our humble contribution is to c…

2013-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study spherical Fourier transform on hypergeometric type harmonic manifolds.

problem Spherical Fourier transform on harmonic Hadamard manifolds.
method Representation of spherical functions by Gauss hypergeometric functions.
result Inversion formula, convolution rule, and Plancherel theorem are derived.

We study surfaces with decorations and prove uniformization in non-Euclidean geometries.

problem Discrete conformal equivalence in non-Euclidean geometries.
method Variational principle and continuous deformation.
result One master theory of discrete conformal equivalence across different geometries.

Proves stability of spacetime Penrose inequality for spherical symmetric initial data.

problem Stability of the Penrose inequality for spherical symmetric spacetimes.
method Formulated and proved stability statement using spherical symmetry and asymptotically flat initial data.
result Initial data must arise from an isometric embedding into a static spacetime close to Schwarzschild spacetime.

Spherical representations and functions are the building blocks for harmonic analysis on riemannian symmetric spaces. In this paper we consider spherical functions and spherical representations related to certain infinite dimensional symmetric spaces G/K=limGn/KnG_\infty/K_\infty = \varinjlim G_n/K_n. We use the representation t…

2011-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

New heat semigroup characterizes Sobolev and BV spaces in Carnot groups.

problem Lack of explicit representations and symmetry in heat kernels in sub-Riemannian geometry.
method Establishes a new heat semigroup characterisation using integral decoupling property.
result Characterizes Sobolev and BV spaces in Carnot groups.

The paper studies the past inextendibility of FLRW spacetimes using the VDR asymptote.

problem Investigating the past inextendibility of FLRW spacetimes.
method Using the volume-distance-ratio (VDR) asymptote to assess spacetime inextendibility criteria.
result Conditions for past inextendibility of FLRW spacetimes are identified.

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is one of the most important methods to handle high dimensional data. However, most of the studies on PCA aim to minimize the loss after projection, which usually measures the Euclidean distance, though in some fields, angle distance is known to be more important and critical for anal…

2019-03-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper classifies spherically symmetric Finsler metrics as Berwaldian or Riemannian.

problem Classifying spherically symmetric Finsler metrics.
method Proving all spherically symmetric Landsberg surfaces are Berwaldian and modifying the classification of spherically symmetric Finsler metrics.
result All Berwald spherically symmetric metrics of dimension n3n\geq 3 are Riemannian or given by a specific formula.