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We provide a new and simple system of equations for the normal sub-Riemannian geodesics. These use a partial connection that we show is canonically available, given a choice of complement to the distribution. We also describe conditions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-17 A. Rod Gover , Jan Slovak

Conjugate gradient (CG) methods are widely acknowledged as efficient for minimizing continuously differentiable functions in Euclidean spaces. In recent years, various CG methods have been extended to Riemannian manifold optimization, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Chunming Tang , Shaohui Liang , Huangyue Chen

This paper is a review on recently found connection between geodesically equivalent metrics and integrable geodesic flows. Suppose two different metrics on one manifold have the same geodesics. We show that then the geodesic flows of these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-08 Vladimir S. Matveev , Petar J. Topalov

When matching parts of a surface to its whole, a fundamental question arises: Which points should be included in the matching process? The issue is intensified when using isometry to measure similarity, as it requires the validation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Amit Bracha , Thomas Dagès , Ron Kimmel

This paper aims to investigate the distributed stochastic optimization problems on compact embedded submanifolds (in the Euclidean space) for multi-agent network systems. To address the manifold structure, we propose a distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Jishu Zhao , Xi Wang , Jinlong Lei , Shixiang Chen

In recent years, manifold learning has become increasingly popular as a tool for performing non-linear dimensionality reduction. This has led to the development of numerous algorithms of varying degrees of complexity that aim to recover man…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-06-03 Dominique Perraul-Joncas , Marina Meila

Given a Riemannian metric on the 2-sphere, sweep the 2-sphere out by a continuous one-parameter family of closed curves starting and ending at point curves. Pull the sweepout tight by, in a continuous way, pulling each curve as tight as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

Solving the inverse kinematics problem is a fundamental challenge in motion planning, control, and calibration for articulated robots. Kinematic models for these robots are typically parametrized by joint angles, generating a complicated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Filip Marić , Matthew Giamou , Adam W. Hall , Soroush Khoubyarian , Ivan Petrović , Jonathan Kelly

Euclidean gradient descent algorithms barely capture the geometry of objective function-induced hypersurfaces and risk driving update trajectories off the hypersurfaces. Riemannian gradient descent algorithms address these issues but fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Liwei Hu , Guangyao Li , Wenyong Wang , Xiaoming Zhang , Yu Xiang

The problem of recovering the configuration of points from their partial pairwise distances, referred to as the Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion (EDMC) problem, arises in a broad range of applications, including sensor network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Chandler Smith , HanQin Cai , Abiy Tasissa

We establish a framework, namely, nuclear bounded Fr\'{e}chet manifolds endowed with Riemann-Finsler structures to study geodesic curves on certain infinite dimensional manifolds such as the manifold of Riemannian metrics on a closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Kaveh Eftekharinasab , Valentyna Petrusenko

The paper is a study of geodesic in two-dimensional pseudo-Riemannian metrics. Firstly, the local properties of geodesics in a neighborhood of generic parabolic points are investigated. The equation of the geodesic flow has singularities at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Alexey Remizov

The article surveys inverse problems related to the twisted geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds with boundary, focusing on the generalized ray transforms, tensor tomography, and rigidity problems. The twisted geodesic flow generalizes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Shubham R. Jathar , Jesse Railo

In this paper, we consider the problem of fast and efficient indexing techniques for sequences evolving in non-Euclidean spaces. This problem has several applications in the areas of human activity analysis, where there is a need to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Rushil Anirudh , Pavan Turaga

Mixed effect modeling for longitudinal data is challenging when the observed data are random objects, which are complex data taking values in a general metric space without linear structure. In such settings the classical additive error…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-07-13 Satarupa Bhattacharjee , Hans-Georg Müller

We derive a variational model to fit a composite B\'ezier curve to a set of data points on a Riemannian manifold. The resulting curve is obtained in such a way that its mean squared acceleration is minimal in addition to remaining close the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Ronny Bergmann , Pierre-Yves Gousenbourger

The space of all non degenerate bilinear structures on a manifold $M$ carries a one parameter family of pseudo Riemannian metrics. We determine the geodesic equation, covariant derivative, curvature, and we solve the geodesic equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Olga Gil-Medrano , Peter W. Michor , Martin Neuwirther

Optimal balance is a non-asymptotic numerical method to compute a point on the slow manifold for certain two-scale dynamical systems. It works by solving a modified version of the system as a boundary value problem in time, where the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-12-13 G. Tuba Masur , Haidar Mohamad , Marcel Oliver

The authors define a class of functions on Riemannian manifolds, which is called geodesic semilocal E-preinvex functions, as a generalization of geodesic semilocal E-convex and geodesic semi E-preinvex functions and some of its properties…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Adem Kiliçman , Wedad Saleh

The main goal of the paper is to prove the sandwich theorem for geodesic convex functions in a complete Riemannian manifold. Then by using this theorem we have proved an inequality in a manifold with bounded sectional curvature. Finally, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Absos Ali Shaikh , Ravi P. Agarwal , Chandan Kumar Mondal