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A general theory of partial balayage on Riemannian manifolds is developed, with emphasis on compact manifolds. Partial balayage is an operation of sweeping measures, or charge distributions, to a prescribed density, and it is closely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Björn Gustafsson , Joakim Roos

This paper advocates a novel framework for segmenting a dataset in a Riemannian manifold $M$ into clusters lying around low-dimensional submanifolds of $M$. Important examples of $M$, for which the proposed clustering algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-02 Xu Wang , Konstantinos Slavakis , Gilad Lerman

Let $\Sigma$ be a compact Riemann surface and $D_1,...,D_n$ a finite number of pairwise disjoint closed disks of $\Sigma$. We prove the existence of a proper harmonic map into the Euclidean plane from a hyperbolic domain $\Omega$ containing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-16 Antonio Alarcon , Jose A. Galvez

Let \Theta be a smooth compact oriented manifold without boundary, embedded in a euclidean space and let \gamma be a smooth map \Theta into a riemannian manifold \Lambda. An unknown state \theta \in \Theta is observed via X=\theta+\epsilon…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-03-25 Leo T. Butler , Boris Levit

Fitting an unknown number of hyperplanes to data is a fundamental yet challenging problem in machine learning, characterized by its non-convexity, non-differentiability, and unknown model order. Existing approaches often struggle with local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhiqin Cheng , Yu Zhan , Mingjin Zhang , Lingbo Liu , Liang Lin

We prove a result on the structure of finite proper holomorphic mappings between complex manifolds that are products of hyperbolic Riemann surfaces. While an important special case of our result follows from the ideas developed by Remmert…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-12-05 Jaikrishnan Janardhanan

We study the equilibrium problem on general Riemannian manifolds. The results on existence of solutions and on the convex structure of the solution set are established. Our approach consists in relating the equilibrium problem to a suitable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-10 Chong Li , Xiangmei Wang , Genaro LÓpez , Jen-Chih Yao

Motivated by the rich theory of harmonic maps from a 2-sphere, we study biharmonic maps from a 2-sphere in this paper. We first derive biharmonic equation for rotationally symmetric maps between rotationally symmetric 2-manifolds. We then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Ze-Ping Wang , Ye-Lin Ou , Han-Chun Yang

We develop a geometric version of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations for discrete mechanics and constrained discrete mechanics. The geometric approach consists of using suitable Lagrangian and isotropic submanifolds. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-09 María Barbero-Liñán , Marta Farré Puiggalí , Sebastián Ferraro , David Martín de Diego

We present a pair of open smooth $4$-manifolds that are mutually homeomorphic. One of them admits a Riemannian metric that possesses quasi-cylindricity, and positivity of scalar curvature and of dimension of certain $L^2$ harmonic forms. By…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Tsuyoshi Kato

This manuscript develops a geometric approach to ordinary cohomology of smooth manifolds, constructing a cochain complex model based on co-oriented smooth maps from manifolds with corners. Special attention is given to the pull-back product…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Greg Friedman , Anibal M. Medina-Mardones , Dev Sinha

Many fundamental structures of Riemannian geometry have found discrete counterparts for graphs or combinatorial ones for simplicial complexes. These include those discussed in this survey, Hodge theory, Morse theory, the spectral theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Marzieh Eidi , Juergen Jost , Dong Zhang

The aim of this article is to introduce invariants of oriented, smooth, closed four-manifolds, built using the Floer homology theories defined in two earlier papers (math.SG/0101206 and math.SG/0105202). This four-dimensional theory also…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Peter S Ozsvath , Zoltan Szabo

We introduce in this paper a manifold optimization framework that utilizes semi-Riemannian structures on the underlying smooth manifolds. Unlike in Riemannian geometry, where each tangent space is equipped with a positive definite inner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-20 Tingran Gao , Lek-Heng Lim , Ke Ye

Harmonic analysis is a tool to infer cosmic topology from the measured astrophysical cosmic microwave background CMB radiation. For overall positive curvature, Platonic spherical manifolds are candidates for this analysis. We combine the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Peter Kramer

The interaction between discrete and continuous mathematics lies at the heart of many fundamental problems in applied mathematics and computational sciences. In this paper we discuss the problem of discretizing vector-valued functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Paweł Dłotko , Thomas Wanner

In this expository article, we outline the theory of harmonic differential forms and its consequences. We provide self-contained proofs of the following important results in differential geometry: (1) Hodge theorem, which states that for a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Uzu Lim

In this article, we investigate the regularity for certain elliptic systems without a $L^2$-antisymmetric structure. As applications, we prove some $\epsilon$-regularity theorems for weakly harmonic maps from the unit ball $B= B(m) \subset…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-19 Miaomiao Zhu

We display four approximation theorems for manifold-valued mappings. The first one approximates holomorphic embeddings on pseudoconvex domains in $\Bbb C^n$ with holomorphic embeddings with dense images. The second theorem approximates…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Giovanni Domenico Di Salvo

This paper combines image metamorphosis with deep features. To this end, images are considered as maps into a high-dimensional feature space and a structure-sensitive, anisotropic flow regularization is incorporated in the metamorphosis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-03 Alexander Effland , Erich Kobler , Thomas Pock , Marko Rajković , Martin Rumpf