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These informal notes deal with some basic properties of metric spaces, especially concerning lengths of curves.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-27 Stephen Semmes

Equipped with the L^2-distortion distance, the space "X" of all metric measure spaces (X,d,m) is proven to have nonnegative curvature in the sense of Alexandrov. Geodesics and tangent spaces are characterized in detail. Moreover, classes of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-13 Karl-Theodor Sturm

A classical inequality which is due to Lickorish and Hempel says that the distance between two curves in the curve complex can be measured by their intersection number. In this paper, we show a converse version; the intersection number of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Yohsuke Watanabe

Metrics on shape space are used to describe deformations that take one shape to another, and to determine a distance between them. We study a family of metrics on the space of curves, that includes several recently proposed metrics, for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Stephen Marsland , Peter W. Michor

We study the concept of cone metric space in the context of ordered vector spaces by setting up a general and natural framework for it.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-08 Mert Çağlar , Zafer Ercan

There are two primary goals to this paper. In the first part of the paper we study smooth metric measure spaces (M^n,g,e^{-f}dv_g) and give several ways of characterizing bounds -Kg\leq \Ric+\nabla^2f\leq Kg on the Ricci curvature of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Aaron Naber

We propose a geometric method for quantifying the difference between parametrized curves in Euclidean space by introducing a distance function on the space of parametrized curves up to rigid transformations (rotations and translations).…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Jaap Eldering , Joris Vankerschaver

Metrics on the space of sets of trajectories are important for scientists in the field of computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and general artificial intelligence. However, existing notions of closeness between sets of trajectories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 José Bento , Jia Jie Zhu

Cosine-similarity is the cosine of the angle between two vectors, or equivalently the dot product between their normalizations. A popular application is to quantify semantic similarity between high-dimensional objects by applying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Harald Steck , Chaitanya Ekanadham , Nathan Kallus

The main goals of this paper are: i) To develop an abstract differential calculus on metric measure spaces by investigating the duality relations between differentials and gradients of Sobolev functions. This will be achieved without…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-22 Nicola Gigli

This paper presents an overview of recent developments in the analysis of shapes such as curves and surfaces through Riemannian metrics. We show that several constructions of metrics on spaces of submanifolds can be unified through the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Laurent Younes

We introduce a notion of equivariant coarse cohomology of the complement of a subspace in a metric space. We use this cohomology to define a notion of coarse cohomology of the configuration space of a metric space and develop tools to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Arka Banerjee

The notions of length of a vector field and cosine of the angle between two vector fields over a differentiable manifold with contravariant and covariant affine connections and metrics are introduced and considered. The change of the length…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Manoff

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

To any metric spaces there is an associated metric profile. The rectifiability of the metric profile gives a good notion of curvature of a sub-Riemannian space. We shall say that a curvature class is the rectifiability class of the metric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marius Buliga

The aim of this article is to introduce and address the problem to smoothly interpolate (empirical) probability measures. To this end, we lift the concept of a spline curve from the setting of points in a Euclidean space that that of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Yongxin Chen , Giovanni Conforti , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Here we have introduced the idea of rough convergence of sequences in a cone metric space. Also it has been investigated how far several basic properties of rough convergence as valid in a normed linear space are affected in a cone metric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-28 Amar Kumar Banerjee , Rahul Mondal

We study some Riemannian metrics on the space of regular smooth curves in the plane, viewed as the orbit space of maps from $S^1$ to the plane modulo the group of diffeomorphisms of $S^1$, acting as reparameterizations. In particular we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter W. Michor , David Mumford

The concept of natural pseudo-distance has proven to be a powerful tool for measuring the dissimilarity between topological spaces endowed with continuous real-valued functions. Roughly speaking, the natural pseudo-distance is defined as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-26 Andrea Cerri , Barbara Di Fabio

In this paper, we prove that a metric measure space which has at least one open set isometric to an interval, and for which the (possibly non-unique) optimal transport map exists from any absolutely continuous measure to an arbitrary…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-27 Timo Schultz