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Which Point Configurations are Determined by the Distribution of their Pairwise Distances?

Metric Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Commutative Algebra Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In a previous paper we showed that, for any nm+2n \ge m+2, most sets of nn points in \RRm\RR^m are determined (up to rotations, reflections, translations and relabeling of the points) by the distribution of their pairwise distances. But there are some exceptional point configurations which are not reconstructible from the distribution of distances in the above sense. In this paper, we present a reconstructibility test with running time O(n11)O(n^{11}). The cases of orientation preserving rigid motions (rotations and translations) and scalings are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.math/0311004,
  title  = {Which Point Configurations are Determined by the Distribution of their Pairwise Distances?},
  author = {Mireille Boutin and Gregor Kemper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0311004},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages