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This paper introduces a new approach toward characterizing local structural features of two-dimensional particle systems. The approach can accurately identify and characterize defects in high-temperature crystals, distinguish a wide range…

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We investigate the combinatorial complexity of geodesic Voronoi diagrams on polyhedral terrains using a probabilistic analysis. Aronov etal [ABT08] prove that, if one makes certain realistic input assumptions on the terrain, this complexity…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Anne Driemel , Sariel Har-Peled , Benjamin Raichel

Voronoi cells of varieties encode many features of their metric geometry. We prove that each Voronoi or Delaunay cell of a plane curve appears as the limit of a sequence of cells obtained from point samples of the curve. We use this result…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Madeline Brandt , Madeleine Weinstein

The development of interatomic potentials that can accurately capture a wide range of physical phenomena and diverse environments is of significant interest, but it presents a formidable challenge. This challenge arises from the numerous…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-31 Ngoc Cuong Nguyen , Dionysios Sema

A safety verification task involves verifying a system against a desired safety property under certain assumptions about the environment. However, these environmental assumptions may occasionally be violated due to modeling errors or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Rômulo Meira-Góes , Ian Dardik , Eunsuk Kang , Stéphane Lafortune , Stavros Tripakis

We present a new approach to study measures on ensembles of contours, polymers or other objects interacting by some sort of exclusion condition. For concreteness we develop it here for the case of Peierls contours. Unlike existing methods,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Roberto Fernández , Pablo A. Ferrari , Nancy L. Garcia

Navigating topological transitions in cellular mechanical systems is a significant challenge for existing simulation methods. While abstract models lack predictive capabilities at the cellular level, explicit network representations…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Logan Numerow , Yue Li , Stelian Coros , Bernhard Thomaszewski

We aim to present a generalized Bayesian inference method for constraining interiors of super Earths and sub-Neptunes. Our methodology succeeds in quantifying the degeneracy and correlation of structural parameters for high dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-09 C. Dorn , J. Venturini , A. Khan , K. Heng , Y. Alibert , R. Helled , A. Rivoldini , W. Benz

We use a simple fragmentation model to describe the statistical behavior of the Voronoi cell patterns generated by a set of points in 1D and in 2D. In particular, we are interested in the distribution of sizes of these Voronoi cells. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-30 Diego Luis Gonzalez Cabrera , T. L. Einstein

Modeling microstructures is an interesting problem not just in Materials Science but also in Mathematics and Statistics. The most basic model for steel microstructure is the Poisson-Voronoi diagram. It has mathematically attractive…

Applications · Statistics 2019-03-01 Martina Vittorietti , Piet J. J. Kok , Jilt Sietsma , Wei Li , Geurt Jongbloed

Minimization diagrams encompass a large class of diagrams of interest in the literature, such as generalized Voronoi diagrams. We develop an abstract perturbation theory and perform a sensitivity analysis for functions depending on sets…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Ernesto G. Birgin , Antoine Laurain , Tiago C. Menezes

Computer experiments with quantitative and qualitative inputs are widely used to study many scientific and engineering processes. Much of the existing work has focused on design and modeling or process optimization for such experiments.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-30 A. Shahrokhian , X. Deng , C. D. Lin , P. Ranjan , L. Xu

A new concept called multilevel contours is introduced through this article by the author. Theorems on contours constructed on a bundle of complex planes are stated and proved. Multilevel contours can transport information from one complex…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Arni S. R. Srinivasa Rao

Consider a set represented by an inequality. An interesting phenomenon which occurs in various settings in mathematics is that the interior of this set is the subset where strict inequality holds, the boundary is the subset where equality…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Daniel Reem

We introduce a method of exploring potential energy contours in complex dynamical systems based on potentiostatic kinematics wherein the systems are evolved with minimal changes to their potential energy. We construct a simple iterative…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Michael J. Waters , James M. Rondinelli

Organoids are in vitro cellular collectives from which brain-like, or gut-like, or kidney-like structures emerge. To make quantitative predictions regarding the morphology and rheology of a cellular collective in its initial stages of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-12 Tao Zhang , J. M. Schwarz

The Voronoi diagram-based dual-front active contour models are known as a powerful and efficient way for addressing the image segmentation and domain partitioning problems. In the basic formulation of the dual-front models, the evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Da Chen , Jack Spencer , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Ke Chen , Minglei Shu , Laurent D. Cohen

Characterizing structural inhomogeneity is an essential step in understanding the mechanical response of amorphous materials. We introduce a threshold-free measure based on the field of vectors pointing from the center of each particle to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-02 Jennifer M. Rieser , Carl P. Goodrich , Andrea J. Liu , Douglas J. Durian

We aim to give a strict proof of the existence and uniqueness of the weighted Voronoi decomposition and the dual weighted Delaunay triangulation on Euclidean and hyperbolic polyhedral surface as well as hyperbolic surface with geodesic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Xiang Zhu

Given a countable set of points in a continuous space, Voronoi tessellation is an intuitive way of partitioning the space according to the distance to the individual points. As a powerful approach to obtain structural information, it has a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-17 Simeon Völkel , Kai Huang