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This paper presents asymptotic covariance formulae and central limit theorems for geometric functionals, including volume, surface area, and all Minkowski functionals and translation invariant Minkowski tensors as prominent examples, of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Daniel Hug , Michael A. Klatt , Günter Last , Matthias Schulte

We adopt a vierbein formalism to study pseudo-Finsler spaces modeled on a pseudo-Minkowski space. We show that it is possible to obtain closed expressions for most of the geometric objects of the theory, including Berwald's curvature,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-13 A. García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo , E. Minguzzi

We consider an infinitesimal volume where there are many rigid molecules of the same kind, and discuss the description and classification of the local anisotropy in this volume by tensors. First, we examine the symmetry of a rigid molecule,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Jie Xu

The purpose of this article is to introduce and motivate the notion of Minkowski (or box) dimension for measures. The definition is simple and fills a gap in the existing literature on the dimension theory of measures. As the terminology…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Kenneth J. Falconer , Jonathan M. Fraser , Antti Käenmäki

Tensors are a fundamental data structure for many scientific contexts, such as time series analysis, materials science, and physics, among many others. Improving our ability to produce and handle tensors is essential to efficiently address…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-12 Wilson G. Gregory , Josué Tonelli-Cueto , Nicholas F. Marshall , Andrew S. Lee , Soledad Villar

Minkowski functionals quantify the morphology of smooth random fields. They are widely used to probe statistical properties of cosmological fields. Analytic formulae for ensemble expectations of Minkowski functionals are well known for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Pravabati Chingangbam , Fazlu Rahman

This paper investigates the lower-dimensional anisotropic Minkowski content and $\mathcal{S}$-content. We establish that these anisotropic contents exhibit properties analogous to their isotropic counterparts by proving analogous…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Filip Fryš

The conformal properties of metrics are meaningful in Riemannian and Finsler geometry, and cubic metrics are useful in physics and biology. In this paper, we study the conformally flat cubic metrics with weakly isotropic scalar curvature.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Cuiling Ma , Xiaoling Zhang

A new anisotropic mesh adaptation strategy for finite element solution of elliptic differential equations is presented. It generates anisotropic adaptive meshes as quasi-uniform ones in some metric space, with the metric tensor being…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xiaobo Yin , Hehu Xie

The analysis and visualization of tensor fields is a very challenging task. Besides the cases of zeroth- and first-order tensors, most techniques focus on symmetric second-order tensors. Only a few works concern totally symmetric tensors of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Chiara Hergl , Thomas Nagel , Gerik Scheuermann

We combine functional analytic and geometric viewpoints on approximate Birkhoff and isosceles orthogonality in generalized Minkowski spaces which are finite-dimensional vector spaces equipped with a gauge. This is the first approach to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Thomas Jahn

The Minkowski question mark function is a rich object which can be explored from the perspective of dynamical systems, complex dynamics, metric number theory, multifractal analysis, transfer operators, integral transforms, and as a function…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-03 Giedrius Alkauskas

The Minkowski problem in convex geometry concerns showing that a given Borel measure on the unit sphere is, up to perhaps a constant, some type of surface area measure of a convex body. Two types of Minkowski problems in particular are an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Dylan Langharst , Jiaqian Liu , Shengyu Tang

This note deals with stiffness tensors measured from anisotropic linear elastic materials, whose symmetry is unknown. Their possible symmetries (exact or approximative) are revealed by a pole figure. An intrinsic function allows one to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-01-14 Marc Louis Maurice François , Yves Berthaud , Giuseppe Geymonat

We study Minkowski contents and fractal curvatures of arbitrary self-similar tilings (constructed on a feasible open set of an IFS) and the general relations to the corresponding functionals for self-similar sets. In particular, we…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-07 Steffen Winter

Compressed sensing extends from the recovery of sparse vectors from undersampled measurements via efficient algorithms to the recovery of matrices of low rank from incomplete information. Here we consider a further extension to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Holger Rauhut , Reinhold Schneider , Zeljka Stojanac

A marginally trapped surface in the four-dimensional Minkowski space is a spacelike surface whose mean curvature vector is lightlike at each point. We associate a geometrically determined moving frame field to such a surface and using the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-30 Georgi Ganchev , Velichka Milousheva

We present a morphological analysis of atom probe data of nanoscale microstructural features, using methods developed by the astrophysics community to describe the shape of superclusters of galaxies. We describe second-phase regions using…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-30 Daniel R Mason , Andrew J London

The influence of the microstructural geometry on the behavior of porous media is widely recognized, particularly in geomaterials, but also in biomaterials and engineered materials. Recent advances in imaging techniques, such as X-ray…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-01 Alexandre Guével , Hadrien Rattez , Manolis Veveakis

The Minkowski product of unit quaternion sets is introduced and analyzed, motivated by the desire to characterize the overall variation of compounded spatial rotations that result from individual rotations subject to known uncertainties in…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Rida T. Farouki , Graziano Gentili , Hwan Pyo Moon , Caterina Stoppato