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We construct examples of compact and one-ended constant mean curvature surfaces with large mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds with axial symmetry by gluing together small spheres positioned end-to-end along a geodesic. Such surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-17 Adrian Butscher , Rafe Mazzeo

Variational symplectic algorithms have recently been developed for carrying out long-time simulation of charged particles in magnetic fields. As a direct consequence of their derivation from a discrete variational principle, these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan Squire , Hong Qin , William M. Tang

Recently, 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) has demonstrated superior geometry reconstruction quality than the popular 3DGS by using 2D surfels to approximate thin surfaces. However, it falls short when dealing with glossy surfaces, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yixin Yang , Yang Zhou , Hui Huang

When fitting Gaussian Mixture Models to 3D geometry, the model is typically fit to point clouds, even when the shapes were obtained as 3D meshes. Here we present a formulation for fitting Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) directly to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Leonid Keselman , Martial Hebert

Smooth random Gaussian functions play an important role in mathematical physics, a main example being the random plane wave model conjectured by Berry to give a universal description of high-energy eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on generic…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Dmitry Beliaev , Stephen Muirhead

Differentiable 3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an efficient and flexible rendering technique for representing complex scenes from a collection of 2D views and enabling high-quality real-time novel-view synthesis. However, its reliance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Meenakshi Krishnan , Liam Fowl , Ramani Duraiswami

We obtain existence and convergence theorems on two variants of the proximal point algorithm for proper lower semicontinuous convex functions in complete geodesic spaces with curvature bounded above.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Yasunori Kimura , Fumiaki Kohsaka

In this paper, we introduce a definition of discrete conformality for triangulated surfaces with flat cone metrics and describe an algorithm for solving the problem of prescribing curvature, that is to deform the metric discrete conformally…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu , Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo

The discrete Gaussian model for the surface of a crystal deposited on a disordered substrate is studied by Monte Carlo simulations. A continuous transition is found from a phase with a thermally-induced roughness to a glassy one in which…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 D. Cule , Y. Shapir

We consider the problem of learning high-dimensional Gaussian graphical models. The graphical lasso is one of the most popular methods for estimating Gaussian graphical models. However, it does not achieve the oracle rate of convergence. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-06 Qiang Sun , Kean Ming Tan , Han Liu , Tong Zhang

One of the fundamental tasks of science is to find explainable relationships between observed phenomena. One approach to this task that has received attention in recent years is based on probabilistic graphical modelling with sparsity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-04-16 Peter Orchard , Felix Agakov , Amos Storkey

We study the equation for improper (parabolic) affine spheres from the view point of contact geometry and provide the generic classification of singularities appearing in geometric solutions to the equation as well as their duals. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Go-o Ishikawa , Yoshinori Machida

We derive pointwise curvature estimates for graphical mean curvature flows in higher codimensions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such estimates without assuming smallness of first derivatives of the defining map. An…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Knut Smoczyk , Mao-Pei Tsui , Mu-Tao Wang

We compute the geodesic curvature of logarithmic spirals on surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature. In addition, we show that the asymptotic behavior of the geodesic curvature is independent of the curvature of the ambient surface. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-09 Casey Blacker , Pavel Tsyganenko

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient rendering, yet accurate surface reconstruction remains challenging due to unreliable geometric supervision. Existing approaches predominantly rely on depth-based reprojection to infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mai Su , Qihan Yu , Zhongtao Wang , Yilong Li , Chengwei Pan , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang , Fei Zhu

We apply duality theory to discretized convex minimization problems to obtain computable guaranteed upper bounds for the distance of given discrete functions and the exact discrete minimizer. Furthermore, we show that the discrete duality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Lars Diening , Johannes Storn

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a competitive approach for novel view synthesis (NVS) due to its advanced rendering efficiency through 3D Gaussian projection and blending. However, Gaussians are treated equally weighted for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zhihao Guo , Peng Wang , Zidong Chen , Xiangyu Kong , Yan Lyu , Guanyu Gao , Liangxiu Han

The discrete velocity method (DVM) is a powerful framework for simulating gas flows across continuum to rarefied regimes, yet its efficiency remains limited by existing quadrature rules. Conventional infinite-domain quadratures, such as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-23 Lu Wang , Lingyun Deng , Guanqing Wang , Hong Liang , Jiangrong Xu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) leverages densely distributed Gaussian primitives for high-quality scene representation and reconstruction. While existing 3DGS methods perform well in scenes with minor view variation, large view changes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Chenhao Zhang , Yuanping Cao , Lei Zhang

An old theorem, due to Graustein, asserts that the average curvature of a plane oval is attained at least at four points. We present a proof by way of wave propagation and extend this result to the spherical and hyperbolic geometries - in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Serge Tabachnikov