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Barycentric coordinate neighbourhoods in Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2016-06-07 v1 Computational Geometry

Abstract

We quantify conditions that ensure that a signed measure on a Riemannian manifold has a well defined centre of mass. We then use this result to quantify the extent of a neighbourhood on which the Riemannian barycentric coordinates of a set of n+1n+1 points on an nn-manifold provide a true coordinate chart, i.e., the barycentric coordinates provide a diffeomorphism between a neighbourhood of a Euclidean simplex, and a neighbourhood containing the points on the manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1606.01585,
  title  = {Barycentric coordinate neighbourhoods in Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Ramsay Dyer and Gert Vegter and Mathijs Wintraecken},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.01585},
  year   = {2016}
}