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We firstly revisit the importance, naturalness and limitations of the so-called optical metrics for describing the propagation of light rays in the limit of geometric optics. We then exemplify their flexibility and nontriviality in some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-17 Eduardo Bittencourt , Jonas P. Pereira , Igor Smolyaninov , Vera N. Smolyaninova

In this paper we consider flat metrics (semi-translation structures) on surfaces of finite type. There are two main results. The first is a complete description of when a set of simple closed curves is spectrally rigid, that is, when the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Moon Duchin , Christopher J. Leininger , Kasra Rafi

This research paper aims to find, analyze and understand code patterns in any software system and measure its quality by defining standards and proposing a formula for the same. Every code that is written can be divided into different code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Jitesh Dundas

This document provides a brief overview of different metrics and terminology that is used to measure the performance of binary classification systems.

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Sebastian Raschka

These notes deal with metric spaces, Hausdorff measures and dimensions, Lipschitz mappings, and related topics. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with basic analysis, which is also reviewed.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stephen Semmes

We introduce two notions of discrepancy between binary vectors, which are not metric functions in general but nonetheless capture the mathematical structure of the binary asymmetric channel. In turn, these lead to two new fundamental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Giuseppe Cotardo , Alberto Ravagnani

Analogs of Reed-Solomon codes are introduced within the framework of bottleneck poset metrics. These codes are proven to be maximum distance separable. Furthermore, the results are extended to the setting of Algebraic Geometry codes.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mahir Bilen Can , Dillon Montero , Ferruh Özbudak

Measurement is a fundamental operation in quantum computing and has many important use cases in quantum algorithms. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the basic measurement operations in quantum computing and represents a…

In this paper we present a new method of coding/decoding algorithms using Fibonacci $Q$-matrices. This method is based on the blocked message matrices. The main advantage of our model is the encryption of each message matrix with different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Nihal Taş , Sümeyra Uçar , Nihal Yilmaz Özgür , Öznur Öztunç Kaymak

In this manuscript, we provide a concise review of the concept of metric dimension for both deterministic as well as random graphs. Algorithms to approximate this quantity, as well as potential applications, are also reviewed. This work has…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Richard C. Tillquist , Rafael M. Frongillo , Manuel E. Lladser

The main goal of quantum metrology is to obtain accurate values of physical parameters using quantum probes. In this context, we show that abstention, i.e., the possibility of getting an inconclusive answer at readout, can drastically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-31 B. Gendra , E. Ronco-Bonvehi , J. Calsamiglia , R. Munoz-Tapia , E. Bagan

This paper surveys some selected topics in the theory of conformal metrics and their connections to complex analysis, partial differential equations and conformal differential geometry.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2008-05-16 Daniela Kraus , Oliver Roth

The problem of error correction in both coherent and noncoherent network coding is considered under an adversarial model. For coherent network coding, where knowledge of the network topology and network code is assumed at the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang

The design of block codes for short information blocks (e.g., a thousand or less information bits) is an open research problem which is gaining relevance thanks to emerging applications in wireless communication networks. In this work, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Gianluigi Liva , Lorenzo Gaudio , Tudor Ninacs , Thomas Jerkovits

This paper extends the well-known source coding problem of multiple descriptions, in its general and basic setting, to analog source-channel coding scenarios. Encoding-decoding functions that optimally map between the (possibly continuous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Mustafa Said Mehmetoglu , Emrah Akyol , Kenneth Rose

This paper focuses on defining a measure, appropriate for obtaining optimally sparse solutions to underdetermined systems of linear equations.* The general idea is the extension of metrics in n-dimensional spaces via the Cartesian product…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-24 Leoni Dalla , George K. Papageorgiou

In this paper we provide secrecy metrics applicable to physical-layer coding techniques with finite blocklengths over Gaussian and fading wiretap channel models. Our metrics go beyond some of the known practical secrecy measures, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Willie K. Harrison , Dinis Sarmento , João P. Vilela , Marco Gomes

Metric spaces are a fundamental component of mathematics and have a paramount importance as a framework for measuring distance. They can be found in many different branches of mathematics, such as analysis and topology. This paper offers an…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Ismail Gemaledin , Iusuf Gemaledin

Objective: To present an overview on the current state of the art concerning metrics-based quality evaluation of software components and component assemblies. Method: Comparison of several approaches available in the literature, using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Miguel Goulão , Fernando Brito e Abreu

Metrics and pseudometrics are defined on the group of unitary operators in a Hilbert space. Several explicit formulas are derived. A special feature of the work is investigation of pseudometrics in unitary groups. The rich classes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Manas K Patra