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We use Ilmanen's elliptic regularization to prove that for an initially smooth mean convex hypersurface in Euclidean n-space moving by mean curvature flow, the surface is very nearly convex in a spacetime neighborhood of every singularity.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Brian White

We embark in a program of studying the problem of better approximating surfaces by triangulations(triangular meshes) by considering the approximating triangulations as finite metric spaces and the target smooth surface as their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Emil Saucan

Using a perturbation technique, we derive a new approximate filtering and smoothing methodology generalizing along different directions several existing approaches to robust filtering based on the score and the Hessian matrix of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-06 Giuseppe Buccheri , Giacomo Bormetti , Fulvio Corsi , Fabrizio Lillo

In Euclidean space, we investigate surfaces whose mean curvature $H$ satisfies the equation $H=\alpha\langle N,\mathbf{x}\rangle+\lambda$, where $N$ is the Gauss map, $\mathbf{x}$ is the position vector and $\alpha$ and $\lambda$ are two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Rafael López

In this note, we derive an approximation for the mean curvature normal vector on vertices of triangulated surface meshes from the Young-Laplace equation and the force balance principle. We then demonstrate that the approximation expression…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-26 Sudip Kumar Das , Mirza Cenanovic , Junfeng Zhang

Smoothness is crucial for attaining fast rates in first-order optimization. However, many optimization problems in modern machine learning involve non-smooth objectives. Recent studies relax the smoothness assumption by allowing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Dingzhi Yu , Wei Jiang , Hongyi Tao , Yuanyu Wan , Lijun Zhang

We present a practical approach for constructing meshes of general rough surfaces with given autocorrelation functions based on the unstructured meshes of nominally smooth surfaces. The approach builds on a well-known method to construct…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Fabian Loth , Thomas Kiel , Kurt Busch , Philip T. Kristensen

The discrete Laplacian on Euclidean triangulated surfaces is a well-established notion. We introduce discrete Laplacians on spherical and hyperbolic triangulated surfaces. On the one hand, our definitions are close to the Euclidean one in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Ivan Izmestiev , Wai Yeung Lam

We mainly investigate some properties of quasiconformal mappings between smooth 2-dimensional surfaces with boundary in the Euclidean space, satisfying certain partial differential equations (inequalities) concerning Laplacian, and in…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-02-21 David Kalaj , Miodrag Mateljevic

Averaged inhomogeneous cosmologies lie at the forefront of interest, since cosmological parameters like the rate of expansion or the mass density are to be considered as volume-averaged quantities and only these can be compared with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Buchert , Mauro Carfora

We revisit the well-established regularity estimates on harmonic maps on surfaces to question their independence with respect to the dimension of the target manifold. We are mainly interested in harmonic maps into target ellipsoids, that we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Romain Petrides

Bilevel programming has recently received a great deal of attention due to its abundant applications in many areas. The optimal value function approach provides a useful reformulation of the bilevel problem, but its utility is often limited…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Jan Harold Alcantara , Akiko Takeda

The Modified Direct Method (MDM) is an iterative mesh smoothing method for smoothing planar and surface meshes, which is developed from the non-iterative smoothing method originated by Balendran [1]. When smooth planar meshes, the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-25 Gang Mei , John C. Tipper , Nengxiong Xu

Optimization, a key tool in machine learning and statistics, relies on regularization to reduce overfitting. Traditional regularization methods control a norm of the solution to ensure its smoothness. Recently, topological methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Arnur Nigmetov , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan , Nicole Sanderson , Dmitriy Morozov

In CAGD the design of a surface that interpolates an arbitrary quadrilateral mesh is definitely a challenging task. The basic requirement is to satisfy both criteria concerning the regularity of the surface and aesthetic concepts. With…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-08 Michele Antonelli , Carolina Vittoria Beccari , Giulio Casciola

Regular decompositions are necessary for most superpixel-based object recognition or tracking applications. So far in the literature, the regularity or compactness of a superpixel shape is mainly measured by its circularity. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Rémi Giraud , Vinh-Thong Ta , Nicolas Papadakis

Randomized smoothing is a widely adopted technique for optimizing nonsmooth objective functions. However, its efficiency analysis typically relies on global Lipschitz continuity, a condition rarely met in practical applications. To address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Jingfan Xia , Zhenwei Lin , Qi Deng

Smoothing a signal based on local neighborhoods is a core operation in machine learning and geometry processing. On well-structured domains such as vector spaces and manifolds, the Laplace operator derived from differential geometry offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Nathan Kessler , Robin Magnet , Jean Feydy

In this paper, we show how to construct the standard Laplacian on the unit square in a self-similar manner. We rewrite the familiar mean value property of planar harmonic functions in terms of averge values on small squares, from which we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Hua Qiu , Haoran Tian

A surface moving mesh method is presented for general surfaces with or without explicit parameterization. The method can be viewed as a nontrivial extension of the moving mesh partial differential equation method that has been developed for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Avary Kolasinski , Weizhang Huang