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A classical statistical inequality is used to show that the distance covariance of two bounded random vectors is bounded from above by a simple function of the dimensionality and the bounds of the random vectors. Two special cases that…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-30 John Çamkıran

We provide a simple unified approach to obtain (i) Discrete polygonal isoperimetric type inequalities of arbitrary high order. (ii) Arbitrary high order isoperimetric type inequalities for smooth curves, where both upper and lower bounds…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Kwok-Kun Kwong

There are several interrelated notions of discrete curvature on graphs. Many approaches utilize the optimal transportation metric on its probability simplex or the distance matrix of the graph. In this survey article, we compute formulas…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Sawyer Jack Robertson

In this paper, we present a new metric distance for comparing two large graphs to find similarities and differences between them based on one of the most important graph structural properties, which is Node Adjacency Information, for all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Arefe Alikhani , Farzad Didehvar

A new refinement of the triangle inequality is presented in normed linear spaces. Moreover, a simple characterization of inner product spaces is obtained by using the skew-angular distance.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Hossein Dehghan

For submanifolds tangent to the structure vector field in cosymplectic space forms, we establish a basic inequality between the main intrinsic invariants of the submanifold, namely its sectional curvature and scalar curvature on one side;…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeong-Sik Kim , Jaedong Choi

Utilizing recently developed abstract notions of sectional curvature, we introduce a method for constructing a curvature-based geometric profile of discrete metric spaces. The curvature concept that we use here captures the metric relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Charlotte Beylier , Parvaneh Joharinad , Jürgen Jost , Nahid Torbati

This work builds a unified framework for the study of quadratic form distance measures as they are used in assessing the goodness of fit of models. Many important procedures have this structure, but the theory for these methods is dispersed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Bruce G. Lindsay , Marianthi Markatou , Surajit Ray , Ke Yang , Shu-Chuan Chen

In this paper, we derive new sharp weighted Alexandrov-Fenchel and Minkowski inequalities for smooth, closed hypersurfaces under various convexity assumptions in Euclidean, spherical, and hyperbolic spaces. These inequalities extend…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Yong Wei

Gromov proved a cube inequality on the bound of distances between opposite faces of a cube equipped with a positive scalar curvature metric in dimension $\leq 8$ using minimal surface method. He conjectured that the cube inequality also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Jinmin Wang , Zhizhang Xie , Guoliang Yu

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

For a real-valued non-negative and log-concave function we introduce a notion of difference function; the difference function represents a functional analog on the difference body of a convex body. We prove a sharp inequality which bounds…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrea Colesanti

We present a one-to-one correspondence between equivalence classes of embeddings of a manifold (into a larger manifold of the same dimension) and equivalence classes of certain distances on the manifold. This correspondence allows us to use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-19 Ben E. Whale , Susan M. Scott

In this article a relation between curvature functionals for surfaces in the Euclidean space and area functionals in relative differential geometry will be given. Relative differential geometry can be described as the geometry of surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-22 Steven Verpoort

During the years 1940-1970, Alexandrov and the "Leningrad School" have investigated the geometry of singular surfaces in depth. The theory developed by this school is about topological surfaces with an intrinsic metric for which we can…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Marc Troyanov

In this paper, we extend the DC Calculus introduced by Perelman on finite dimensional Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded below. Among other things, our results allow us to define the Hessian and the Laplacian of DC functions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Luigi Ambrosio , Jérôme Bertrand

Finite differences have been widely used in mathematical theory as well as in scientific and engineering computations. These concepts are constantly mentioned in calculus. Most frequently-used difference formulas provide excellent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-09 Brian Jain , Andrew D. Sheng

A Gauss equation is proved for subspaces of Alexandrov spaces of curvature bounded above by K. That is, a subspace of extrinsic curvature less than or equal to A, defined by a cubic inequality on the difference of arc and chord, has…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephanie B. Alexander , Richard L. Bishop

If one thinks of a Riemannian metric, $g_1$, analogously as the gradient of the corresponding distance function, $d_1$, with respect to a background Riemannian metric, $g_0$, then a natural question arises as to whether a corresponding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Brian Allen , Edward Bryden

Motivated by information geometry, a distance function on the space of stochastic matrices is advocated. Starting with sequences of Markov chains the Bhattacharyya angle is advocated as the natural tool for comparing both short and long…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Antony R. Lee , Peter Tino , Iain Bruce Styles