Study the Hessian geometry of an ideal gas in a centrifuge.
problem Understanding the Hessian geometry of an ideal gas in a centrifuge.
method Investigate the Hessian geometry associated with an ideal gas in a spherical centrifuge, using the action of the Euclidean rotation group.
result The Hessian geometry of a spherical rigid body is isometric to a hyperbolic space in the high angular velocity limit.
We introduce semisimple 2-categories, fusion 2-categories, and spherical fusion 2-categories. For each spherical fusion 2-category, we construct a state-sum invariant of oriented singular piecewise-linear 4-manifolds.
Defines state sum models with defects in 3-manifolds.
problem Detecting and characterizing defects in 3-manifolds.
method Turaev-Viro-Barrett-Westbury state sum models with defects labeled by bimodule categories and functors.
result State sums are triangulation-independent and can be computed using polygon diagrams.
The study proves spherical polygon analogs of curve theorems, finding bounds on intersections and inflections.
problem Finding bounds on intersections and inflections for spherical polygons.
method Adapting smooth curve theorems to spherical polygons using discrete tools.
result Proves discrete analogs of four-vertex theorems for spherical polygons.
3D HQFT comparison proves state sum equals surgery.
problem Comparing two HQFT approaches for 3D.
method Proving isomorphism between state sum and surgery methods.
result State sum 3D HQFT isomorphic to surgery 3D HQFT.
Using generating functional and replica techniques, respectively, we study the dynamics and statics of a spherical Minority Game (MG), which in contrast with a spherical MG previously presented in J.Phys A: Math. Gen. 36 11159 (2003) displays a phase with broken ergodicity and dependence of the macroscopic stationary s…
In this paper, we present two observations about static spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations. The first is a comment extending the well-known result of the existence of static states (i.e. standing wave solutions) of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations. The second more important observ…
Timelike geometry of spherical simplices is shown to be isometric to vector spaces.
problem Characterizing the geometry of spherical simplices.
method Proved isometry to vector spaces with a timelike norm.
result Timelike spherical Hilbert geometry of simplices is isometric to a union of six copies of vector spaces.
Proposes spherical text embedding for better directional similarity.
problem Directional similarity is more effective but unsupervised text embeddings are typically learned in Euclidean space.
method Develops a spherical generative model and an efficient optimization algorithm for unsupervised word and paragraph embeddings.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performances on various text embedding tasks.
New construction of Turaev-Viro invariants invariant under Morita equivalence.
problem Constructing Turaev-Viro invariants invariant under Morita equivalence.
method Pivotal bicategory construction of spherical module categories.
result The invariant recovers the standard Turaev-Viro invariant and is independent of the skeleton.
DeepSphere improves spherical CNNs by balancing efficiency and rotation equivariance.
problem Designing efficient and rotation-equivariant convolutional layers for spherical data.
method Graph-based approach to represent spherical data, focusing on the number of vertices and neighbors.
result DeepSphere achieves state-of-the-art performance and demonstrates efficiency and flexibility.
Study on quantum state entanglement using Kaehler manifolds.
problem Quantum state entanglement on Kaehler manifolds.
method Semiclassical asymptotics and pure states on spheres.
result Entropy analysis of quantum states on spheres.
A new GP model uses spherical harmonics for faster inference.
problem Efficiently fitting large datasets with Gaussian processes.
method Sparse Gaussian processes with spherical harmonic features.
result Significant speed-up in inference for large datasets.
Study on spherical bodies of constant width on the unit sphere, proving bounds on their relative effective radius.
problem Understanding the smallest spherical bodies of constant width on the unit sphere.
method Analyzing spherical bodies of constant width on the unit sphere, constructing examples and applying geometric arguments.
result Proved non-trivial bounds on the relative effective radius of spherical bodies of constant width.
A family of TQFTs parametrised by G-crossed braided spherical fusion categories has been defined recently as a state sum model and as a Hamiltonian lattice model. Concrete calculations of the resulting manifold invariants are scarce because of the combinatorial complexity of triangulations, if nothing else. Handle deco…
We state several sufficient conditions for compact spacelike surface in the3-dimensional de Sitter space to be totally geodesic or spherical.
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.
A string-net model associates a vector space to a surface in terms of graphs decorated by objects and morphisms of a pivotal fusion category modulo local relations. String-net models are usually considered for spherical fusion categories, and in this case the vector spaces agree with the state spaces of the correspondi…
New capillary Christoffel-Minkowski problem solved for half-space.
problem Finding strictly convex capillary hypersurfaces from capillary functions.
method Established analogous result in capillary setting for half-space.
result Capillary functions lead to strictly convex capillary hypersurfaces.
We construct a state-sum type invariant of smooth closed oriented 4-manifolds out of a G-crossed braided spherical fusion category (G-BSFC) for G a finite group. The construction can be extended to obtain a (3+1)-dimensional topological quantum field theory (TQFT). The invariant of 4-manifolds generalizes s…
Study curvature operator on Riemannian manifolds, proving new classification results.
problem Classifying Riemannian manifolds based on the curvature operator of the second kind.
method Analyzing the curvature operator and proving classification theorems.
result Closed manifolds with specific curvature properties are classified.
Point cloud is the most fundamental representation of 3D geometric objects. Analyzing and processing point cloud surfaces is important in computer graphics and computer vision. However, most of the existing algorithms for surface analysis require connectivity information. Therefore, it is desirable to develop a mesh st…
The discrete isoperimetric inequality in Euclidean geometry states that among all n-gons having a fixed perimeter p, the one with the largest area is the regular n-gon. The statement is true in spherical geometry and hyperbolic geometry as well. In this paper, we generalize the discrete isoperimetric inequality t…
New theorem on spheres with punctures using infinity metric.
problem Rigidity of metrics on spheres with punctures.
method Proof of Llarull's theorem for L∞ metrics on spheres with finitely many points removed. result The rigidity theorem holds for L∞ metrics on spheres with finitely many points removed. A Steiner chain of length k consists of k circles, tangent to two given non-intersecting circles (the parent circles) and tangent to each other in a cyclic pattern. The Steiner porism states that once a chain of k circles exists, there exists a 1-parameter family of such chains with the same parent circles that can be …
New method clusters non-spherical Gaussian mixtures with fewer samples and time.
problem Clustering non-spherical Gaussian mixtures with arbitrary component covariances.
method Sum-of-Squares method for finding low-dimensional projections.
result Improved clustering algorithms with fewer samples and time complexity.
Paper introduces spherical knot mosaics for knot and link invariants.
problem Representing knots on a sphere with tiles.
method Tiling a 2-sphere with 11 knot mosaic tiles to define new invariants.
result New knot invariants derived from spherical mosaic tiling.
Static spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein-Euler equations with prescribed central densities are known to exist, be unique and smooth for reasonable equations of state. Some criteria are also available to decide whether solutions have finite extent (stars with a vacuum exterior) or infinite extent. In the l…
The study proves a discrete version of Segre's theorem for polygonal curves.
problem Proving a discrete analog of a four-vertex theorem for spherical curves.
method Using the concept of discrete tangent indicatrix of a polygon.
result A polygon with at least four vertices and a non-self-intersecting discrete tangent indicatrix has at least four flattenings.
Study geodesics on spherical polyhedra, estimating their number.
problem Counting simple closed geodesics on spherical polyhedra.
method Examined regular spherical octahedra, cubes, and tetrahedra.
result Estimated the number of simple closed geodesics on spherical polyhedra.
This paper explores new Finsler metrics and their connections to generalized Sakaguchi's Theorem.
problem Understanding the properties of Finsler metrics and their projective invariants.
method Developed and examined weakly-Weyl and generalized weakly-Weyl Finsler metrics.
result Equivalence of weakly-Weyl and W-quadratic spherically symmetric Finsler metrics. 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 O(nlogn) sample complexity lower bound for IRL problems. SRCA reduces high-dimensional data to lower dimensions while preserving geometric structures.
problem High-dimensional datasets with underlying geometric structures.
method Spherical Rotation Component Analysis (SRCA) incorporating geometric loss functions.
result SRCA provides a low-rank spherical representation of data with general theoretic guarantees.
The abstract proves spherical surface decompositions with conical singularities.
problem Decomposing surfaces with spherical metrics and conical singularities.
method Geometric triangulations and irreducible components of standard shapes.
result Spherical polygons, including half-spherical concave polygons, can be arbitrarily complicated.
For the n-dimensional spherical pedal curve pedγ,P with respect to an n-dimensional spherical unit speed curve γ and a given point P∈Sn, we define the spherical orthotomic curve of γ relative to the point P, and classify singularities of spherical orthotomic curves.
Quantum states are not entangled if submanifold is a product.
problem Understanding entanglement in quantum states associated with product submanifolds.
method Analyzing quantum states ρN on submanifolds of product Kähler manifolds in the semiclassical limit. result States are not entangled when submanifold is a product.
Given a discrete group G and a spherical G-fusion category whose neutral component has invertible dimension, we use the state-sum method to construct a 3-dimensional Homotopy Quantum Field Theory (HQFT) with target the Eilenberg-MacLane space K(G,1).
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.
Study calculates eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for spherical triangles and finds fundamental gap behavior.
problem Understanding eigenvalues and gaps in spherical triangles.
method Explicit computation of Dirichlet eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for spherical lunes and triangles.
result Fundamental gap of spherical triangles increases as the angle of the lune decreases.
New findings show fundamental group is not audible in spherical space forms.
problem Isospectral spherical space forms with non-cyclic fundamental groups.
method Revisited and found new examples of spherical space forms.
result Fundamental group is not audible among spherical space forms.
FHDMs achieve optimal convergence in spherically supported data.
problem Statistical convergence properties of FHDMs for spherical data.
method FHDMs leverage random generation time and Doob's h-transform to optimize convergence rate.
result Achieve minimax optimal convergence rate in total variation for spherically supported Sobolev smooth data.
The class of differential equations describing pseudo-spherical surfaces, first introduced by Chern and Tenenblat [3], is characterized by the property that to each solution of a differential equation, within the class, there corresponds a 2-dimensional Riemannian metric of curvature equal to −1. The class of differe…
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.
The reductivity of a spherical curve represents how reduced the spherical curve is. It is unknown if there exists a spherical curve whose reductivity is four. In this paper we give an unavoidable set for spherical curves with reductivity four by considering 4-gons.
The paper improves inequalities for nearly spherical sets using quermassintegrals.
problem Improving inequalities for nearly spherical sets.
method Establishing quantitative Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for quermassintegrals.
result Lower bounds on the (k,m)-isoperimetric deficit found using spherical deviation and asymmetry. The reductivity of a spherical curve is the minimal number of a local transformation called an inverse-half-twisted splice required to obtain a reducible spherical curve from the spherical curve. It is unknown if there exists a spherical curve whose reductivity is four. In this paper, an unavoidable set of configuratio…
Paper proves a rigidity result for static perfect fluids.
problem Proving a rigidity result for static perfect fluids.
method Robinson's divergence formula and boundary conditions.
result Rigidity result for static perfect fluids.
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.