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We introduce an intrinsic estimator for the scalar curvature of a data set presented as a finite metric space. Our estimator depends only on the metric structure of the data and not on an embedding in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We show that the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-14 Abigail Hickok , Andrew J. Blumberg

A new type of sectional curvature is introduced. The notion is purely algebraic and can be located in linear algebra as well as in differential geometry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Barbara Opozda

We consider the evolution of fronts by mean curvature in the presence of obstacles. We construct a weak solution to the flow by means of a variational method, corresponding to an implicit time-discretization scheme. Assuming the regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Luís Almeida , Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga

On a compact manifold with boundary, the map consisting of the scalar curvature in the interior and the mean curvature on the boundary is a local surjection at generic metrics. We prove that this result may be localized to compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Hongyi Sheng

Casting nonlocal problems in variational form and discretizing them with the finite element (FE) method facilitates the use of nonlocal vector calculus to prove well-posedeness, convergence, and stability of such schemes. Employing an FE…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Marco Pasetto , Zhaoxiang Shen , Marta D'Elia , Xiaochuan Tian , Nathaniel Trask , David Kamensky

We establish some inequalities of Chen's type between certain intrinsic invariants (involving sectional, Ricci and scalar curvatures) and the squared mean curvature of submanifolds tangent to the structure vector fields of a generalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-10 Luis M. Fernández , Ana M. Fuentes

In information geometry, one of the basic problem is to study the geomet-ric properties of statistical manifold. In this paper, we study the geometricstructure of the generalized normal distribution manifold and show that it has constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-05 Mingao Yuan

We consider three-dimensional reshaping of thin nemato-elastic sheets containing half-charged defects upon nematic-isotropic transition. Gaussian curvature, that can be evaluated analytically when the nematic texture is known, differs from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-15 A. P. Zakharov , L. M. Pismen

It is known that spherically symmetric spacetimes admit flat spacelike foliations. We point out a simple method of seeing this result via the Hamiltonian constraints of general relativity. The method yields explicit formulas for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Viqar Husain , Asghar Qadir , Azad A. Siddiqui

The aim of the present paper is to provide an intrinsic investigation of projective changes in Finlser geometry, following the pullback formalism. Various known local results are generalized and other new intrinsic results are obtained.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Nabil L. Youssef , S. H. Abed , A. Soleiman

Hypersurfaces embedded in conformal manifolds appear frequently as boundary data in boundary-value problems in cosmology and string theory. Viewed as the non-null conformal infinity of a spacetime, we consider hypersurfaces embedded in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Samuel Blitz

We consider a 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold M endowed with a right skew-circulant tensor structure S, which is an isometry with respect to the metric g and the fourth power of S is minus identity. We determine a class of manifolds (M,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Iva Dokuzova

We study that the $n-$graphs defining by smooth map $f:\Om\subset \ir{n}\to \ir{m}, m\ge 2,$ in $\ir{m+n}$ of the prescribed mean curvature and the Gauss image. We derive the interior curvature estimates $$\sup_{D_R(x)}|B|^2\le\f{C}{R^2}$$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-22 Y. L. Xin

We consider spline estimates which preserve prescribed piecewise convex properties of the unknown function. A robust version of the penalized likelihood is given and shown to correspond to a variable halfwidth kernel smoother where the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-19 Kurt S. Riedel

We present a novel method for calculating interface curvature on 3D unstructured meshes from piecewise-linear interface reconstructions typically generated in the volume of fluid method. Interface curvature is a necessary quantity to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Z. Jibben , N. N. Carlson , M. M. Francois

A simplified, user-friendly repackaging of the curvature estimates implied by the Seiberg-Witten equations is formulated in terms of the convex hull of the set of monopole classes. New results are also obtained concerning boundary cases of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claude LeBrun

We amplify previous arguments why mean curvature should be used as measure of integration in calculating the effective bending rigidity of fluid membranes subjected to a weak background curvature. The stiffening of the membrane by its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. A. Pinnow , W. Helfrich

For surfaces without boundary, nonlocal notions of directional and mean curvatures have been recently given. Here, we develop alternative notions, special cases of which apply to surfaces with boundary. Our main tool is a new fractional or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Roberto Paroni , Paolo Podio-Guidugli , Brian Seguin

The article treats the geometrical theory of partial differential equations in the absolute sense, i.e., without any additional structures and especially without any preferred choice of independent and dependent variables. The equations are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Veronika Chrastinová , Václav Tryhuk

In this article, we study curvature-like feature value of data sets in Euclidean spaces. First, we formulate such curvature functions with desirable properties under the manifold hypothesis. Then we make a test property for the validity of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Yasuhiko Asao , Yuichi Ike