English
Related papers

Related papers: A Metric Approach to Elastic Reformations

200 papers

The relationship between the metric and nonrelativistic matter distribution depends on the theory of gravity and additional fields, providing a possible way of distinguishing competing theories. With the assumption that the geometry and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-28 Mustafa A. Amin , Robert V. Wagoner , Roger D. Blandford

Finite metric spaces are the object of study in many data analysis problems. We examine the concept of weak isometry between finite metric spaces, in order to analyse properties of the spaces that are invariant under strictly increasing…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Alessandro De Gregorio , Ulderico Fugacci , Facundo Memoli , Francesco Vaccarino

In this work, we discuss the task of finding a direction of optimal descent for problems in Shape Optimisation and its relation to the dual problem in Optimal Transport. This link was first observed in a previous work which sought…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Philip J. Herbert

We describe a framework in which is possible to develop and implement algorithms for the approximation of invariant measures of dynamical systems with a given bound on the error of the approximation. Our approach is based on a general…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Stefano Galatolo , Isaia Nisoli

The method of moving frames (rep\`ere mobile) was used by Elie Cartan as a way of organizing the identification of differential invariants and solving equivalence problems. In this expository paper, we discuss how moving frames are used to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Thomas A. Ivey

A general scalar-tensor theory can be formulated in different parametrizations that are related by a conformal rescaling of the metric and a scalar field redefinition. We compare formulations of slow-roll regimes in the Einstein and Jordan…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-12 Piret Kuusk , Mihkel Rünkla , Margus Saal , Ott Vilson

This work addresses a central topic in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) which is the motion-correction problem in a joint reconstruction and registration framework. From a set of multiple MR acquisitions corrupted by motion, we aim at -…

This paper introduces a new extension of Riemannian elastic curve matching to a general class of geometric structures, which we call (weighted) shape graphs, that allows for shape registration with partial matching constraints and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Yashil Sukurdeep , Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon

This paper examines a variety of classical optimization problems, including well-known minimization tasks and more general variational inequalities. We consider a stochastic formulation of these problems, and unlike most previous work, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Vladimir Solodkin , Andrew Veprikov , Aleksandr Beznosikov

Seismic signals are typically compared using travel time difference or $L_2$ difference. We propose the Wasserstein metric as an alternative measure of fidelity or misfit in seismology. It exhibits properties from both of the traditional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Bjorn Engquist , Brittany D. Froese

We study expansion/contraction properties of some common classes of mappings of the Euclidean space ${\mathbb R}^n, n\ge 2\,,$ with respect to the distance ratio metric. The first main case is the behavior of M\"obius transformations of the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Slavko Simić , Matti Vuorinen , Gendi Wang

In this paper the optimal transport and the metamorphosis perspectives are combined. For a pair of given input images geodesic paths in the space of images are defined as minimizers of a resulting path energy. To this end, the underlying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Jan Maas , Martin Rumpf , Carola Schönlieb , Stefan Simon

We consider the problem of matching two shapes assuming these shapes are related by an elastic deformation. Using linearized elasticity theory and the finite element method we seek an elastic deformation that is caused by simple external…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Konrad Simon , Ronen Basri

We propose a new approach to measuring the agreement between two oscillatory time series, such as seismic waveforms, and demonstrate that it can be employed effectively in inverse problems. Our approach is based on Optimal Transport theory…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-07-01 Malcolm Sambridge , Andrew Jackson , Andrew P. Valentine

In order to characterize molecular structures we introduce configurational fingerprint vectors which are counterparts of quantities used experimentally to identify structures. The Euclidean distance between the configurational fingerprint…

We consider epimorphisms and several variant notions -- split, effective, regular, strong, and extremal -- and determine which of these coincide in the metric coarse and coarsely Lipschitz categories. In particular, we characterise extremal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Robert Tang

We characterize $n$-rectifiable metric measure spaces as those spaces that admit a countable Borel decomposition so that each piece has positive and finite $n$-densities and one of the following: is an $n$-dimensional Lipschitz…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-18 David Bate , Sean Li

We construct a geometric framework for cosmological large-scale structure based on optimal transport theory and Wasserstein geometry. In this framework, Ricci curvature on the probability measure space $\mathcal{P}_2(M)$ is characterized by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

The branched transport problem, a popular recent variant of optimal transport, is a non-convex and non-smooth variational problem on Radon measures. The so-called urban planning problem, on the contrary, is a shape optimization problem that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Julius Lohmann , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

Variational problems that involve Wasserstein distances and more generally optimal transport (OT) theory are playing an increasingly important role in data sciences. Such problems can be used to form an examplar measure out of various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Marco Cuturi , Gabriel Peyré