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This thesis is devoted to the Differential Geometry of curves and surfaces along with applications in Quantum Mechanics. In the 1st part we introduce the well known Frenet frame. Later, we show that the curvature function is a lower bound…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Luiz C. B. da Silva

We lay out the phenomenological behavior of event-shape observables evaluated by solving optimal transport problems between collider events and reference geometries -- which we name 'manifold distances' -- to provide guidance regarding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Cari Cesarotti , Matt LeBlanc

We introduce an efficient framework for computing the distance between collider events using the tools of Linearized Optimal Transport (LOT). This preserves many of the advantages of the recently-introduced Energy Mover's Distance, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Tianji Cai , Junyi Cheng , Katy Craig , Nathaniel Craig

According to a general definition of discrete curves, surfaces, and manifolds. This paper focuses on the Jordan curve theorem in 2D discrete spaces. The Jordan curve theorem says that a (simply) closed curve separates a simply connected…

General Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Li Chen

The discrete Fr{\'e}chet distance is a measure of similarity between point sequences which permits to abstract differences of resolution between the two curves, approximating the original Fr{\'e}chet distance between curves. Such distance…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jérémy Barbay

We discuss the problem of optimizing the distance function from a given point, subject to polynomial constraints. A key algebraic invariant that governs its complexity is the Euclidean distance degree, which pertains to first-order…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Sandra Di Rocco , Kemal Rose , Luca Sodomaco

We study the problem of representing all distances between $n$ points in $\mathbb R^d$, with arbitrarily small distortion, using as few bits as possible. We give asymptotically tight bounds for this problem, for Euclidean metrics, for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Piotr Indyk , Tal Wagner

It is well-understood that different algorithms, training processes, and corpora produce different word embeddings. However, less is known about the relation between different embedding spaces, i.e. how far different sets of embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xuhui Zhou , Zaixiang Zheng , Shujian Huang

A distance-squared function is one of the most significant functions in the application of singularity theory to differential geometry. Moreover, distance-squared mappings are naturally extended mappings of distance-squared functions,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Shunsuke Ichiki

The square root velocity framework is a method in shape analysis to define a distance between curves and functional data. Identifying two curves if they differ by a reparametrisation leads to the quotient space of unparametrised curves. In…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Martins Bruveris

This paper investigates the relationship between a system of differential equations and the underlying geometry associated with it. The geometry of a surface determines shortest paths, or geodesics connecting nearby points, which are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard Atkins

In spite of the widespread use of optical tweezers as a quantitative tool to measure small forces, there exists no unambiguous and simple experimental method for either validating its theoretically predicted form or empirically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-25 Deepak Kumar , Shankar Ghosh , S. Bhattacharya

This paper presents the generalization of weighted distances to modules and their computation through the chamfer algorithm on general point lattices. The first part is dedicated to formalization of definitions and properties (distance,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-08-06 Céline Fouard , Robin Strand , Gunilla Borgefors

In this paper, we propose a novel lower dimensional representation of a shape sequence. The proposed dimension reduction is invertible and computationally more efficient in comparison to other related works. Theoretically, the differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-08-02 Sheng Yi , Hamid Krim , Larry K. Norris

Recent literature has shown that symbolic data, such as text and graphs, is often better represented by points on a curved manifold, rather than in Euclidean space. However, geometrical operations on manifolds are generally more complicated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Max Aalto , Nakul Verma

A geometric graph is a combinatorial graph, endowed with a geometry that is inherited from its embedding in a Euclidean space. Formulation of a meaningful measure of (dis-)similarity in both the combinatorial and geometric structures of two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Sushovan Majhi , Carola Wenk

By quantifying the distance between two collider events, one can triangulate a metric space and reframe collider data analysis as computational geometry. One popular geometric approach is to first represent events as an energy flow on an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-11 Andrew J. Larkoski , Jesse Thaler

We consider the incompressible two-dimensional Euler equation in the plane in the case when its initial vorticity is the characteristic function of a bounded open set. We show that the travel distance grows linearly for most of fluid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Kyudong Choi

We formulate geodesics on a manifold in terms of a parallel transfer of a particle state vector transformed by local Lorentz and Yang-Mills symmetry groups. This formulation leads to an introduction of a canonical one-form the eigenvalues…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 A. N. Grigorenko

The area distance to a convex plane curve is an important concept in computer vision. In this paper we describe a strong link between area distances and improper affine spheres. This link makes possible a better understanding of both…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-28 Marcos Craizer , Moacyr Alvim , Ralph Teixeira