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We construct projective unitary representations of the smooth Deligne cohomology group of a compact oriented Riemannian manifold of dimension 4k+1, generalizing positive energy representations of the loop group of the circle. We also…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kiyonori Gomi

Projective structures on topological surfaces support the structure of 2d CFTs with a degree of technical simplification. We propose a complex analytic space $\mathcal{P}_g$ biholomorphic to $T^*_{(1,0)} \mathcal{M}_g$ as a candidate moduli…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-05 Xiao Liu

Random geometric graphs are random graph models defined on metric spaces. Such a model is defined by first sampling points from a metric space and then connecting each pair of sampled points with probability that depends on their distance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

Group lattices (Cayley digraphs) of a discrete group are in natural correspondence with differential calculi on the group. On such a differential calculus geometric structures can be introduced following general recipes of noncommutative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Aristophanes Dimakis , Folkert Muller-Hoissen

We introduce the shape module of the Python package Geomstats to analyze shapes of objects represented as landmarks, curves and surfaces across fields of natural sciences and engineering. The shape module first implements widely used shape…

Finite projective (lattice) geometries defined over rings instead of fields have recently been recognized to be of great importance for quantum information theory. We believe that there is much more potential hidden in these geometries to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 Metod Saniga , Petr Pracna

We consider the class of profinite diffeological spaces, that is, diffeological spaces which diffeologies are deduced by pull-back of diffeologies on finite-dimensional manifolds through a system of projection mappings. This class includes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Anahita Eslami-Rad , Jean-Pierre Magnot , Enrique G. Reyes

The general construction of self-adjoint configuration space representations of the Heisenberg algebra over an arbitrary manifold is considered. All such inequivalent representations are parametrised in terms of the topology classes of flat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Jan Govaerts , Victor M. Villanueva

Representing images and videos with Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices, and considering the Riemannian geometry of the resulting space, has been shown to yield high discriminative power in many visual recognition tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Mehrtash Harandi , Mathieu Salzmann , Richard Hartley

This paper proposes an original Riemmanian geometry for low-rank structured elliptical models, i.e., when samples are elliptically distributed with a covariance matrix that has a low-rank plus identity structure. The considered geometry is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Florent Bouchard , Arnaud Breloy , Guillaume Ginolhac , Alexandre Renaux , Frédéric Pascal

A projection space is a collection of spaces interrelated by the combinatorics of projection onto tensor factors in a symmetric monoidal background category. Examples include classical configuration spaces, orbit configuration spaces, the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Ben Knudsen

We introduce the notion of log-Riemann surfaces. These are Riemann surfaces given by cutting and pasting planes together isometrically, and come equipped with a holomorphic local diffeomorphism to C called the projection map, and a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Kingshook Biswas , Ricardo Perez-Marco

Symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices used as feature descriptors in image recognition are usually high dimensional. Traditional manifold learning is only applicable for reducing the dimension of high-dimensional vector-form data. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Yangyang Li , Ruqian Lu

The differential-geometric structure of the manifold of smooth shapes is applied to the theory of shape optimization problems. In particular, a Riemannian shape gradient with respect to the first Sobolev metric and the Steklov-Poincar\'{e}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Kathrin Welker

Latent manifolds of autoencoders provide low-dimensional representations of data, which can be studied from a geometric perspective. We propose to describe these latent manifolds as implicit submanifolds of some ambient latent space. Based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Florine Hartwig , Josua Sassen , Juliane Braunsmann , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

The problem of finding a time-dependent vector field which warps an initial set of points to a target set is common in shape analysis. It is an example of a problem in the diffeomorphic shape matching regime, and can be thought of as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Erik Jansson , Klas Modin

In quantum mechanics, symmetry groups can be realized by projective, as well as by ordinary unitary, representations. For the permutation symmetry relevant to quantum statistics of N indistinguishable particles, the simplest properly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Wilczek

Projective structures on compact real manifolds are classical objects in real differential geometry. Complex manifolds with a holomorphic projective structure on the other hand form a special class as soon as the dimension is greater than…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-02 Priska Jahnke , Ivo Radloff

This rather technical paper presents some generalization of the results of recent publications \cite{Shirkov2010, DVPF2010, PFDV2010} where toy models of dimensional reduction of space-time were considered. Here we introduce and consider a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 Plamen Fiziev

Shape matching represents a challenging problem in both information engineering and computer science, exhibiting not only a wide spectrum of multimedia applications, but also a deep relation with conformal geometry. After reviewing the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-01-27 Claudio Fontanari , Letizia Pernigotti