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In this paper we review some author's results about Weingarten surfaces in Euclidean space $\r^3$ and hyperbolic space $\h^3$. We stress here in the search of examples of linear Weingarten surfaces that satisfy a certain geometric property.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-19 Rafael López

This article provides an overview of various notions of shape spaces, including the space of parametrized and unparametrized curves, the space of immersions, the diffeomorphism group and the space of Riemannian metrics. We discuss the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Peter W. Michor

A recurring obstacle in the study of Wasserstein gradient flow is the lack of convexity of the square Wasserstein metric. In this paper, we develop a class of transport metrics that have better convexity properties and use these metrics to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-06 Katy Craig

We describe Wasserstein isometries of the quantum bit state space with respect to distinguished cost operators. We derive a Wigner-type result for the cost operator involving all the Pauli matrices: in this case, the isometry group consists…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 György Pál Gehér , József Pitrik , Tamás Titkos , Dániel Virosztek

A main goal in the field of statistical shape analysis is to define computable and informative metrics on spaces of immersed manifolds, such as the space of curves in a Euclidean space. The approach taken in the elastic shape analysis…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Eric Klassen , Sebastian Kurtek , Tom Needham , Thomas Pierron

Modeling observations as random distributions embedded within Wasserstein spaces is becoming increasingly popular across scientific fields, as it captures the variability and geometric structure of the data more effectively. However, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 François Bachoc , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes , Yisha Yao

While many Machine Learning methods were developed or transposed on Riemannian manifolds to tackle data with known non Euclidean geometry, Optimal Transport (OT) methods on such spaces have not received much attention. The main OT tool on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Clément Bonet , Lucas Drumetz , Nicolas Courty

We present a novel multiscale framework for analyzing sequences of probability measures in Wasserstein spaces over Euclidean domains. Exploiting the intrinsic geometry of optimal transport, we construct a multiscale transform applicable to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wael Mattar , Nir Sharon

Geometric flows have proved to be a powerful geometric analysis tool, perhaps most notably in the study of 3-manifold topology, the differentiable sphere theorem, Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections and canonical Kaehler metrics. In the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-01 Jason D. Lotay

We compute the Riemannian connection and curvature for the Wasserstein space of a smooth compact Riemannian manifold.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott

The isometric embedding problem is a fundamental problem in differential geometry. A longstanding problem is considered in this paper to characterize intrinsic metrics on a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold which can be realized as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-25 Gui-Qiang Chen , Marshall Slemrod , Dehua Wang

Embedding complex objects as vectors in low dimensional spaces is a longstanding problem in machine learning. We propose in this work an extension of that approach, which consists in embedding objects as elliptical probability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-19 Boris Muzellec , Marco Cuturi

We classify the self-similar solutions to a class of Weingarten curvature flow of connected compact convex hypersurfaces, isometrically immersed into space forms with non-positive curvature, and obtain a new characterization of a sphere in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-07 Guanghan Li , Isabel Salavessa , Chuanxi Wu

The isometric embedding problem for Riemannian manifolds, which connects intrinsic and extrinsic geometry, is a central question in differential geometry with deep theoretical significance and wide-ranging applications. Despite extensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Guangwei Gao , Kaibo Hu , Buyang Li , Ganghui Zhang

We develop an inversive geometry for anisotropic quadradic spaces, in analogy with the classical inversive geometry of a Euclidean plane.

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Nicholas Phat Nguyen

The aim of this short paper is to offer a complete characterization of all (not necessarily surjective) isometric embeddings of the Wasserstein space $\mathcal{W}_p(\mathcal{X})$, where $\mathcal{X}$ is a countable discrete metric space and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-23 György Pál Gehér , Tamás Titkos , Dániel Virosztek

We introduce the observable Wasserstein distance, a framework for deriving lower bounds on the Wasserstein distance between probability measures on Polish metric spaces, designed to bypass the computational intractability of exact optimal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Edivaldo Lopes dos Santos , Leandro Vicente Mauri , Washington Mio , Tom Needham

This paper is a continuation of the papers [2,3,4,5,6]. In this paper the osculating spaces of arbitrary order of a manifold embedded in Euclidean space are considered. A better estimation of their dimensions as well as the description of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Kostadin Trencevski

This chapter reviews some past and recent developments in shape comparison and analysis of curves based on the computation of intrinsic Riemannian metrics on the space of curves modulo shape-preserving transformations. We summarize the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Eric Klassen , Alice Le Brigant

This paper will introduce a family of sliced Wasserstein geodesics which are not standard Wasserstein geodesics, objects yet to be discovered in the literature. These objects exhibit how the geometric structure of the Sliced Wasserstein…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-11 John Seale Hopper