We give a counterexample of Bowers-Stephenson's conjecture in the spherical case: spherical inversive distance circle packings are not determined by their inversive distances.
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New constructions show non-rigidity in spherical inversive distance circle packings.
problem Non-rigidity of spherical inversive distance circle packings.
method Elementary constructions in inversive geometry of the 2-sphere.
result Show non-rigidity without using Euclidean polyhedra or Pogorelov maps.
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.
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.
Researchers found the Wigner derivative and its inverse are equal for spherical tetrahedra.
problem Computing the relationship between dihedral angles and edge lengths in tetrahedra.
method Computed the Wigner derivative and its inverse for spherical tetrahedra.
result The Wigner derivative and its inverse are equal for spherical tetrahedra.
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.
Paper finds configurations for spherical curves with reductivity four and constructs a reduced curve without certain types of polygons.
problem Unknown configurations for spherical curves with reductivity four and reduced curves without specific polygon types.
method Focused on 5-gons to find unavoidable sets for spherical curves with reductivity four. Constructed a reduced spherical curve without certain types of polygons.
result Found configurations for spherical curves with reductivity four and constructed a reduced curve without specific polygon types.
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A new spherical Sliced-Wasserstein distance for data on spheres.
problem Defining Wasserstein distance on manifolds, especially spheres.
method Closed-form solutions of the Wasserstein distance on the circle and a new spherical Radon transform.
result A novel spherical Sliced-Wasserstein (SW) discrepancy for data on spheres.
We give an explicit estimate of the distance of a closed, connected, oriented and immersed hypersurface of a space form to a geodesic sphere and show that the spherical closeness can be controlled by a power of an integral norm of the traceless second fundamental form, whenever the latter is sufficiently small. Further…
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.
We show that we can obtain a reducible spherical curve from any non-trivial spherical curve by four or less inverse-half-twisted splices, i.e., the reductivity, which represents how reduced a spherical curve is, is four or less. We also discuss unavoidable sets of tangles for spherical curves.
Study of CR twistor model and its sections.
problem Classify and describe projective lines and hyperplane sections of the CR twistor model.
method Explicit projective methods, classification of lines and sections, use of involution .
result Complete relative classification of smooth quadric sections and explicit non-spherical CR structures.
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 proves rigidity of inversive distance circle packings.
problem Proving rigidity of inversive distance circle packings.
method Variational principles and combinatorial curvature study.
result Global rigidity of inversive distance circle packings proved.
Paper proves stability of quermassintegral inequalities using inverse curvature flow.
problem Stability of quermassintegral inequalities for nearly spherical sets.
method Inverse curvature flow with special rescaling to study quermassintegral inequalities.
result Decreasing rate of k-th quermassintegral is faster than Fraenkel asymmetry for nearly spherical sets.
New method uses spherical convolutional Wasserstein distance to validate climate models.
problem Ensuring the accuracy of global climate models.
method Spherical convolutional Wasserstein distance to measure model differences.
result Phase 6 models show modest improvements in realistic climatologies.
Study of homothetic solitons in inverse mean curvature flow.
problem Understanding the behavior of solitons in inverse mean curvature flow.
method Analyzing solutions that evolve by homotheties of a given submanifold.
result Classification of rotationally invariant Lagrangian homothetic solitons.
The paper characterizes spherically symmetric metrics with scalar curvature.
problem Characterizing spherically symmetric metrics with scalar curvature.
method Established a curvature compatibility condition on spherically symmetric Finsler metrics and constructed a Berwald frame.
result Characterized spherically symmetric metrics with scalar curvature.
Study shows spherical hyperbolic manifolds almost rigidly converge to hyperbolic space.
problem Almost rigidity of positive mass theorem for spherical hyperbolic manifolds.
method Intrinsic flat distance to prove convergence.
result Spherically symmetric asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds converge to hyperbolic space if mass limit is zero.
Proves rigidity of circle packings in the plane, generalizing previous work.
problem Rigidity of infinite inversive distance circle packings in the plane.
method Maximal principle for generic weighted Delaunay inversive distance circle packings and ring lemma for inversive distance circle packings in hexagonal triangulated plane.
result Proves Bowers-Stephenson's conjecture for inversive distance circle packings.
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.
Paper proves circle packings converge to Riemann mapping for Jordan domains.
problem Proving discrete conformal maps converge to Riemann mapping.
method Establishing solvability theorem for inversive distance circle packings.
result Bowers-Stephenson's conjecture for Jordan domains is proven.
New proof simplifies existing proofs of Bowers-Stephenson conjecture.
problem Proving the global rigidity of circle packing with inversive distance.
method Variational proof simplifying previous methods.
result Global rigidity of circle packing with inversive distance in (-1, +∞).
Paper generalizes Ricci flow for inversive distance circle packings.
problem Deforming circle packings with prescribed cone angles.
method Generalized combinatorial Ricci flow for inversive distance.
result Generalized flow deforms any inversive distance circle packing to a unique packing with prescribed cone angles.
This paper sets a lower bound for sample complexity in inverse reinforcement learning.
problem Finding a reward function that generates a desired optimal policy in MDPs.
method Information-theoretic lower bound using geometric construction and Fano's inequality.
result An sample complexity lower bound for IRL problems.
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.
This study analyzes the quadratic Wasserstein metric's effects on inverse data matching.
problem Analyzing the quadratic Wasserstein metric's impact on inverse data matching.
method Characterizes and numerically analyzes the smoothing effect and convexity improvement of distance.
result The distance improves convexity and reduces resolution for reconstructed objects at a given noise level.
The paper classifies Landsberg spherically symmetric Finsler metrics in various dimensions.
problem Investigating compatibility conditions on spherically symmetric Finsler metrics.
method Using the inverse problem of calculus of variations, the paper focuses on Landsberg and Berwald types.
result All Landsberg spherically symmetric manifolds in higher dimensions are either Riemannian or have specific geodesic spray formulas.
The central object of study of this thesis is inverse mean curvature vector flow of two-dimensional surfaces in four-dimensional spacetimes. Being a system of forward-backward parabolic PDEs, inverse mean curvature vector flow equation lacks a general existence theory. Our main contribution is proving that there exist …
New well-posedness concept for Bayesian inverse problems.
problem Difficulty in verifying conventional well-posedness in practice.
method Replaces Lipschitz continuity in Hellinger distance with continuity in probability measures.
result Proofs of well-posedness for various distances in large classes of Bayesian inverse problems.
The paper introduces a new Wasserstein distance for approximating posteriors in inverse problems.
problem Approximating posterior measures in inverse problems using conditional Wasserstein distances.
method Introduces a conditional Wasserstein distance with restricted couplings and derives its dual.
result Shows that conditional Wasserstein GANs can yield favorable properties for posterior sampling.
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.
This paper investigates several global rigidity issues for polyhedral surfaces including inversive distance circle packings. Inversive distance circle packings are polyhedral surfaces introduced by P. Bowers and K. Stephenson as a generalization of Andreev-Thurston's circle packing. They conjectured that inversive dist…
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.
A Euclidean (or hyperbolic) circle packing on a closed triangulated surface with prescribed inversive distance is locally determined by its cone angles. We prove this by applying a variational principle.
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.
The paper deforms circle packings on surfaces with constant curvature.
problem Deforming circle packings on surfaces to constant curvature.
method Using Ge-Xu's α-flow to deform initial inversive distance circle packings.
result The inversive distance circle packing with constant α-curvature is unique under certain conditions.
New harmonic Hadamard manifolds defined via hypergeometric equations.
problem Characterizing harmonic Hadamard manifolds using hypergeometric equations.
method Defining harmonic Hadamard manifolds of hypergeometric type and using spherical Fourier transform.
result Characterization of harmonic Hadamard manifolds being of hypergeometric type.
We describe the range of a restricted spherical mean transform, which sends a function supported inside a closed ball in a hyperbolic space to its mean values on the geodesics spheres centered at the boundary of the ball. The description resembles that of the same transform on the Euclidean spaces obtained by Mark Agra…
The paper proves the existence of a unique circle packing on hyperbolic surfaces.
problem Proving the existence of a unique inversive distance circle packing on hyperbolic polyhedral surfaces.
method Deforming the surface by discrete Ricci flow, doing surgery by edge flipping, and using a variational principle of a convex Ricci potential.
result There exists a unique inversive distance circle packing that is discrete conformal to the original one.
The Funk-Minkowski transform and spherical convolution reconstruct functions and vector fields on the sphere.
problem Reconstructing functions and vector fields on the sphere using Funk-Minkowski transform and Hilbert type spherical convolution.
method Inversion formula for Funk-Minkowski transform and Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition solution using spherical convolution.
result Complete reconstruction of functions and vector fields on the sphere.
This paper explores timelike Hilbert and Funk geometries in Euclidean and spherical settings.
problem Developing axiomatic theories for timelike spaces and comparing them to classical geometries.
method Investigates timelike Hilbert and Funk geometries in Euclidean and spherical settings, introducing variants and describing their Finsler infinitesimal structure.
result Characterizes de Sitter geometry as a special case of timelike spherical Hilbert geometry.
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.
Machine learning models solve inverse eigenvalue problems for symmetric potentials and refractive indices.
problem Solving inverse eigenvalue problems for symmetric potentials and refractive indices.
method Supervised regression models (k-Nearest Neighbours, Random Forests, Multi-Layer Perceptron) trained on eigenvalue datasets.
result Machine learning methods can numerically solve inverse eigenvalue problems under appropriate parameter tuning.
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…
The paper derives Pizzetti formulae and inverts the Radon transform on spheres.
problem Inverting the Radon transform on spheres.
method Obtained Pizzetti-type formulae on sphere regions, used delta distributions, and derived inversion formulae.
result Derived Pizzetti formulae and inversion formulae for the Radon transform on spheres.
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…
The paper extends the Discrete Schwarz-Pick Lemma to circle packings with obtuse intersections and disjoint packings.
problem Proving the Discrete Schwarz-Pick Lemma for circle packings with various inversive distances.
method Using a variational principle for circle packings with inversive distances, the paper extends the lemma to a broader range of packings.
result The Discrete Schwarz-Pick Lemma holds for circle packings with inversive distances in , provided an additional condition on triangle weights.