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We study some properties convex functions fulfill. Among the conclusions we obtain from such result, we are able to prove some nontrivial inequalities among real numbers, and we give an improvement of the reverse triangle inequality in the…

Writing an uncomplicated, robust, and scalable three-dimensional convex hull algorithm is challenging and problematic. This includes, coplanar and collinear issues, numerical accuracy, performance, and complexity trade-offs. While there are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Ben Kenwright

The starting assumptions to study the convergence and complexity of gradient-type methods may be the smoothness (also called Lipschitz continuity of gradient) and the strong convexity. In this note, we revisit these two basic properties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Lu Zhang , Jiani Wang , Hui Zhang

We present a novel, deterministic, and efficient method to detect whether a given rational space curve is symmetric. By using well-known differential invariants of space curves, namely the curvature and torsion, the method is significantly…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-12 Juan Gerardo Alcázar , Carlos Hermoso , Georg Muntingh

We introduce an estimator for the curvature of curves and surfaces by using finite sample points drawn from sampling a probability distribution that has support on the curve or surface. First we give an algorithm for estimation of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-03 R. Mirzaie

A novel method has been introduced to solve a point inclusion in a polygon problem. The method is applicable to convex as well as non-convex polygons which are not self-intersecting. The introduced method is independent of rounding off…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Karim M. Ali , Amr Guaily

This work proposes a new formulation to the long-standing problem of convex decomposition through learning feature fields, enabling the first feed-forward model for open-world convex decomposition. Our method produces high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuezhi Yang , Qixing Huang , Mikaela Angelina Uy , Nicholas Sharp

A point P on a smooth hypersurface X of degree d in an N-dimensional projective space is called a star point if and only if the intersection of X with the embedded tangent space T_P(X) is a cone with vertex P. This notion is a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-12 Filip Cools , Marc Coppens

Beginning with the projectively invariant method for linear programming, interior point methods have led to powerful algorithms for many difficult computing problems, in combinatorial optimization, logic, number theory and non-convex…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Narendra Karmarkar

This paper consists of four general parts: convex sets; convex functions; convex optimization; and the interior-point algorithm. I will start by introducing the definition of convex sets and give three common convex set examples which will…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Haoqian Li

We present a novel, log-radius profile representation for convex curves and define a new operation for combining the shape features of curves. Unlike the standard, angle profile-based methods, this operation accurately combines the shape…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Dongsung Huh

One of the general problems in algebraic geometry is to determine algorithmically whether or not a given geometric object, defined by explicit polynomial equations (e.g. a curve or a surface), satisfies a given property (e.g. has…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-20 A. Popolitov , Sh. Shakirov

This paper proposed a method to judge whether the point is inside or outside of the simple convex polygon by the intersection of the vertical line. It determined the point to an area enclosed by two straight lines, then convert the problem…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Sun Yixuan , Zhu Zhehao

We develop an essentially algebraic method to study biharmonic curves into an implicit surface. Although our method is rather general, it is especially suitable to study curves into surfaces defined by a polynomial equation: in particular,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-04 S. Montaldo , A. Ratto

ConicCurv is a new derivative-free algorithm to estimate the curvature of a plane curve from a sample of data points. It is based on a known tangent estimator method grounded on classic results of Projective Geometry and B\'ezier rational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-28 R. Díaz Fuentes , J. Estrada Sarlabous , V. Hernández Mederos

Convexity, though extremely important in mathematical programming, has not drawn enough attention in the field of dynamic programming. This paper gives conditions for verifying convexity of the cost-to-go functions, and introduces an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-14 Sheng Yu , Enrique Campos-Nanez

Plotting solution sets for particular equations may be complicated by the existence of turning points. Here we describe an algorithm which not only overcomes such problematic points, but does so in the most general of settings. Applications…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-07-05 Steven Pollack , Daniel Badali , Jonathan Pollack

In this largely-expository note, we describe a class of divisors on elliptic curves that index the inflection points of linear series arising (as subspaces of holomorphic sections) from line bundles on $\mathbb{P}^1$ via pullback along the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Ethan Cotterill , Cristhian Garay López

Taking the convex hull of a curve is a natural construction in computational geometry. On the other hand, path signatures, central in stochastic analysis, capture geometric properties of curves, although their exact interpretation for…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Carlos Améndola , Darrick Lee , Chiara Meroni

This is an exposition of a class of problems and results on the number of integral points close to plane curves. We give a detailed proof of a theorem of Huxley and Sargos, following the account of Bordell\`es. Along the way we correct an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-03 ZiAn Zhao