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By invoking the reflection functors introduced by Bernstein, Gelfand, and Ponomarev in 1973, in this paper we define a metric on the space of all zigzag modules of a given length, which we call the reflection distance. We show that the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Alexander Elchesen , Facundo Mémoli

The action of the isometry algebra U_h(sl(2)) on the h-deformed Lobachevsky plane is found. The invariant distance and the invariant 2-point functions are shown to agree precisely with the classical ones. The propagator of the Laplacian is…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2008-11-26 John Madore , Harold Steinacker

The aim of this article is to define and compare several distances (or metrics) between operators acting on different (separable) Hilbert spaces. We consider here three main cases of how to measure the distance between two bounded…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-20 Olaf Post , Sebastian Zimmer

We introduce an estimator for distances in a compact Riemannian manifold based on graph Laplacian estimates of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. We upper bound the error in the estimate of manifold distances, or more precisely an estimate of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Dena Marie Asta

We formulate geodesics on a manifold in terms of a parallel transfer of a particle state vector transformed by local Lorentz and Yang-Mills symmetry groups. This formulation leads to an introduction of a canonical one-form the eigenvalues…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 A. N. Grigorenko

In metric geometry, the question of whether a distance metric is given by the length of curves can be decided via the existence of midpoints with respect to the metric $d$. We adapt a similar characterization to the setting of Lorentzian…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Tobias Beran , Felix Rott

The relationship between spinors and Clifford (or geometric) algebra has long been studied, but little consistency may be found between the various approaches. However, when spinors are defined to be elements of the even subalgebra of some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew R. Francis , Arthur Kosowsky

For pattern recognition like image recognition, it has become clear that each machine-learning dictionary data actually became data in probability space belonging to Euclidean space. However, the distances in the Euclidean space and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Zecang Gu , Ling Dong

Riemann surfaces are among the simplest and most basic geometric objects. They appear as key players in many branches of physics, mathematics, and other sciences. Despite their widespread significance, how to compute distances between pairs…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Huck Stepanyants , Alan Beardon , Jeremy Paton , Dmitri Krioukov

This talk discusses various aspects of the structure of space-time presenting mechanisms leading to the explanation of the "rigidity" of the manifold and to the emergence of time, i.e. of the Lorentzian signature. The proposed ingredient is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Angelo Tartaglia

It is well-known that global hyperbolicity implies that the Lorentzian distance is finite and continuous. By carefully analysing the causes of discontinuity of the Lorentzian distance, we show that in most other respects the finiteness and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Adam Rennie , Ben Whale

We give an explicit bijective correspondence between between nonzero pairs of complex numbers, which we regard as spinors or spin vectors, and horospheres in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space decorated with certain spinorial directions. This…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Daniel V. Mathews

In "Part I: Vector Analysis of Spinors", the author studied the geometry of two component spinors as points on the Riemann sphere in the geometric algebra of three dimensional Euclidean space. Here, these ideas are generalized to apply to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-24 Garret Sobczyk

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the connection between the properties of the Gromov--Hausdorff distance and the Borsuk conjecture. The Borsuk number of a given bounded metric space $X$ is the infimum of cardinal numbers $n$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Alexander O. Ivanov , Alexey A. Tuzhilin

In this note we give an alternative geometrical derivation of the results recently presented by Garcia-Godinez, Newman and Silva-Ortigoza in [1] on the class of all two-dimensional riemannian and lorentzian metrics from 2nd order ODEs which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Emanuel Gallo

We show that Dirac 4-spinors admit an entirely equivalent formulation in terms of 2-spinors defined over the split-quaternions. In this formalism, a Lorentz transformation is represented as a $2 \times 2$ unitary matrix over the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Francesco Antonuccio

The metric Bezout Theorem proved in an earlier paper can be extended to a derivative version that compares derivatives of the algebraic distance of a point $\theta$ to two properly intersecting cycles in projective space with the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-01-27 Heinrich Massold

We begin with a basic exploration of the (point-set topological) notion of Hausdorff closed limits in the spacetime setting. Specifically, we show that this notion of limit is well suited to sequences of achronal sets, and use this to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Gregory J. Galloway , Carlos Vega

We give a new perspective on the Lorentzian OPE inversion formula of arXiv:1703.00278, building on arXiv:2302.06469. We introduce an ``auxiliary'' fourpoint function that can be related to the traditionally defined ones via a Radon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-09 Pulkit Agarwal , Richard Brower , Timothy Raben , Chung-I Tan

We revisit extending the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance between probability distributions to the multidimensional setting and make new arguments about the proper way to approach this generalization. Our proposed formulation maximizes the…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-16 Peter Matthew Jacobs , Foad Namjoo , Jeff M. Phillips