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How to distribute a set of points uniformly on a spherical surface is a very old problem that still lacks a definite answer. In this work, we introduce a physical measure of uniformity based on the distribution of distances between points,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-09 Luca Maria Del Bono , Flavio Nicoletti , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

We introduce a compactification of the space of simple positive divisors on a Riemann surface, as well as a compactification of the universal family of punctured surfaces above this space. These are real manifolds with corners. We then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Rafe Mazzeo , Xuwen Zhu

Approximate symmetries of geodesic equations on 2-spheres are studied. These are the symmetries of the perturbed geodesic equations which represent approximate path of a particle rather than exact path. After giving the exact symmetries of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-07 K. Saifullah , K. Usman

A spherical $t$-design is a set of points on the sphere that are nodes of a positive equal weight quadrature rule having algebraic accuracy $t$ for all spherical polynomials with degrees $\le t$. Spherical $t$-designs have many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Yang Zhou , Xiaojun Chen

In this note, we use isothermic coordinate systems to explore global properties of space-like surfaces with constant mean curvature in the Lorentz-Minkowski three-space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Yu Kawakami , Kaito Satake

The ruled surfaces, i.e., surfaces generated by one parametric set of lines, are widely used in the~field of applied geometry. An~isophote on a surface is a curve consisting of surface points whose normals form a constant angle with some…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Jan Vršek

Circular photon orbits have become an attractive topic in recent years. They play extremely important roles in black hole shadows, gravitational lensings, quasi-normal modes, and spacetime topological properties. In our recent work,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Chenkai Qiao , Ming Li , Donghui Xie , Minyong Guo

We argue that the curvature generated by a gravitational field can be used to calculate the corresponding metric which determines the trajectories of freely falling test particles. To this end, we present a method to compute the metric from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-04 Hernando Quevedo

On a Riemannian manifold with a positive lower bound on the Ricci tensor, the distance of isoperimetric sets from geodesic balls is quantitatively controlled in terms of the gap between the isoperimetric profile of the manifold and that of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-22 F. Cavalletti , F. Maggi , A. Mondino

Sphericity and roundness are fundamental measures used for assessing object uniformity in 2D and 3D images. However, using their strict definition makes computation costly. As both 2D and 3D microscopy imaging datasets grow larger, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Pawel Tomasz Pieta , Peter Winkel Rasumssen , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Anders Nymark Christensen

We develop a systematic framework for constructing spherical harmonics on the two-dimensional unit sphere as superpositions of Gaussian beams whose poles form well-separated point configurations. The distributional and analytic properties…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Xiaolong Han

Scatterometry is a tested method for measuring periodic semiconductor structures. Since the sizes of modern semiconductor structures have reached the nanoscale regime, the challenge is to determine the shape of periodic nanostructures with…

In this paper, we apply the classical Perron method to give a proof of the existence and uniqueness/rigidity result of a circle pattern on a closed surface equipped with conical spherical metric when prescribed measures of the angles of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Lishan Li , Jun Hu , Yi Qi , Yu Sun

A new field of discrete differential geometry is presently emerging on the border between differential and discrete geometry. Whereas classical differential geometry investigates smooth geometric shapes (such as surfaces), and discrete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-19 Alexander I. Bobenko , Yuri B. Suris

Perceptual geometry refers to the interdisciplinary research whose objectives focuses on study of geometry from the perspective of visual perception, and in turn, applies such geometric findings to the ecological study of vision. Perceptual…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-11-29 Arash Sangari , Hasti Mirkia , Amir H. Assadi

In this paper we use the relationship between conformal metrics on the sphere and horospherically convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space for giving sufficient conditions on a conformal metric to be radial under some constrain on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-17 Jose M. Espinar

A problem that is simple to state in the context of spherical geometry, and that seems rather interesting, appears to have been unexamined to date in the mathematical literature. The problem can also be recast as a problem in the real…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Michael Q. Rieck

We solve the problem of a dimer moving on a spherical surface and find that its binding energy and wave function are sensitive to the total angular momentum. The dimer gets squeezed in the direction orthogonal to the center-of-mass motion…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-20 A. Tononi , D. S. Petrov , M. Lewenstein

The conchoid of a surface $F$ with respect to given fixed point $O$ is roughly speaking the surface obtained by increasing the radius function with respect to $O$ by a constant. This paper studies {\it conchoid surfaces of spheres} and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-10 Martin Peternell , David Gruber , Juana Sendra

Randomly oriented flattened spheroids have been used to describe a broad range of astrophysical phenomena. Here we use this geometric approach to derive equations representing lines of sight through quasar absorption clouds to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-06 John K. Webb