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The Laplace-Beltrami problem on closed surfaces embedded in three dimensions arises in many areas of physics, including molecular dynamics (surface diffusion), electromagnetics (harmonic vector fields), and fluid dynamics (vesicle…
We present and study techniques for investigating the spectra of linear differential operators on surfaces and flat domains using symmetric meshfree methods: meshfree methods that arise from finding norm-minimizing Hermite-Birkhoff…
Representing a signal as a linear combination of a set of basis functions is central in a wide range of applications, such as approximation, de-noising, compression, shape correspondence and comparison. In this context, our paper addresses…
We study the conformal type of surfaces spread over the sphere via random quasiconformal maps. Constructing a random Beltrami coefficient on the complex plane, we obtain a locally quasiconformal homeomorphism with prescribed dilatation that…
We study the numerical evaluation of the integral fractional Laplacian and its application in solving fractional diffusion equations. We derive a pseudo-spectral formula for the integral fractional Laplacian operator based on fractional…
We study on a new kind of surface covered by translation and factorable (TF-type) surfaces in the three dimensional Euclidean space. We consider I and III Laplace-Beltrami operator surfaces of a TF-type surface. Then we obtain degrees and…
The eigenfunctions of the Laplace Beltrami operator (Manifold Harmonics) define a function basis that can be used in spectral analysis on manifolds. In [21] the authors recast the problem as an orthogonality constrained optimization problem…
Evaluating the similarity of non-rigid shapes with significant partiality is a fundamental task in numerous computer vision applications. Here, we propose a novel axiomatic method to match similar regions across shapes. Matching similar…
The inversion of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the computation of the Hodge decomposition of a tangential vector field on smooth surfaces arise as computational tasks in many areas of science, from computer graphics to machine learning…
We propose an extension of the plane-wave representation for wave fields defined on the real sphere $\mathcal{S}^2$. This representation is well-known in the planar setting but has never been developed for curved surfaces. To achieve this,…
We consider the problem of non-rigid shape matching using the functional map framework. Specifically, we analyze a commonly used approach for regularizing functional maps, which consists in penalizing the failure of the unknown map to…
Let ${M}$ be a compact Riemannian submanifold of ${{\bf R}^m}$ of dimension $\scriptstyle{d}$ and let ${X_1,...,X_n}$ be a sample of i.i.d. points in ${M}$ with uniform distribution. We study the random operators $$…
In this paper a numerical meshless method for solving the radiative transfer equations in a slab medium with an isotropic scattering is considered. The method is based on radial basis functions to approximate the solution of an…
We develop a stabilized discrete Laplace-Beltrami operator that is used to compute an approximate mean curvature vector which enjoys convergence of order one in L2. The stabilization is of gradient jump type and we consider both standard…
The paper deals with asymptotic nodal geometry for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on closed surfaces. Given an eigenfunction f corresponding to a large eigenvalue, we study local asymmetry of the distribution of sign(f) with respect to the…
Surface registration is one of the most fundamental problems in geometry processing. Many approaches have been developed to tackle this problem in cases where the surfaces are nearly isometric. However, it is much more challenging to…
We present a meshfree quadrature rule for compactly supported non-local integro-differential equations (IDEs) with radial kernels. We apply this rule to develop a strong-form meshfree discretization of a peridynamic solid mechanics model…
We introduce a numerical method for approximating arbitrary differential operators on vector fields in the weak form given point cloud data sampled randomly from a $d$ dimensional manifold embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$. This method generalizes…
In this work is considered a spectral problem, involving a second order term on the domain boundary: the Laplace-Beltrami operator. A variational formulation is presented, leading to a finite element discretization. For the Laplace-Beltrami…
Surface mapping plays an important role in geometric processing. They induce both area and angular distortions. If the angular distortion is bounded, the mapping is called a {\it quasi-conformal} map. Many surface maps in our physical world…