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In many situations, one can approximate the behavior of a quantum system, i.e. a wave function subject to a partial differential equation, by effective classical equations which are ordinary differential equations. A general method and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Bojowald , Aureliano Skirzewski

Reconstructing continuous surfaces from unoriented and unordered 3D points is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and graphics. Recent advancements address this problem by training neural signed distance functions to pull 3D location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ruikai Cui , Binzhu Xie , Shi Qiu , Jiawei Liu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

In this paper, we study spherical images of the modified orthogonal vector fields and Darboux vector of a regular curve which lies on the unit sphere in Euclidean 3-space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-03 Mohamd Saleem Lone , Murat Kemal Karacan , Yilmaz Tuncer , Hasan Es

We give a method of constructing self-orthogonal codes from equitable partitions of association schemes. By applying this method we construct self-orthogonal codes from some distance-regular graphs. Some of the obtained codes are optimal.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Dean Crnkovic , Sanja Rukavina , Andrea Svob

Studying the behavior of real and complex geodesics we provide sharp estimates for the Kobayashi distance, the Lempert function, and the Carath\'eodory distance on $\mathcal{C}^{2,\alpha}$-smooth strongly pseudoconvex domains. Similar…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Łukasz Kosiński , Nikolai Nikolov , Ahmed Yekta Ökten

We study the geometry of surfaces in $\mathbb R^5$ by relating it to the geometry of regular and singular surfaces in $\mathbb R^4$ obtained by orthogonal projections. In particular, we obtain relations between asymptotic directions, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Jorge Deolindo Silva , Raúl Oset Sinha

We study two variants of the well-known orthogonal drawing model: (i) the smooth orthogonal, and (ii) the octilinear. Both models form an extension of the orthogonal, by supporting one additional type of edge segments (circular arcs and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Michael A. Bekos , Henry Förster , Michael Kaufmann

These notes are designed for those who either plan to work in differential geometry, or at least want to have a good reason not to do it. We discuss smooth curves and surfaces -- the main gate to differential geometry. We focus on the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Anton Petrunin , Sergio Zamora Barrera

We study distance relations in various simplicial complexes associated with low-dimensional manifolds. In particular, complexes satisfying certain topological conditions with vertices as simple multi-curves. We obtain bounds on the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Sayantika Mondal , Puttipong Pongtanapaisan , Hanh Vo

Discrete forms of the mean and directed curvature are constructed on piecewise flat manifolds, providing local curvature approximations for smooth manifolds embedded in both Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces. The resulting expressions take…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Rory Conboye

Recent techniques have been successful in reconstructing surfaces as level sets of learned functions (such as signed distance fields) parameterized by deep neural networks. Many of these methods, however, learn only closed surfaces and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 David Palmer , Dmitriy Smirnov , Stephanie Wang , Albert Chern , Justin Solomon

Sign-based optimization methods have become popular in machine learning due to their favorable communication cost in distributed optimization and their surprisingly good performance in neural network training. Furthermore, they are closely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Lukas Balles , Fabian Pedregosa , Nicolas Le Roux

We present an algorithm for solving inverse problems on graphs analogous to those arising in diffuse optical tomography for continuous media. In particular, we formulate and analyze a discrete version of the inverse Born series, proving…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Francis J. Chung , Anna C. Gilbert , Jeremy G. Hoskins , John C. Schotland

Shape calculus concerns the calculation of directional derivatives of some quantity of interest, typically expressed as an integral. This article introduces a type of shape calculus based on localized dilation of boundary faces through…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Martin Berggren

We introduce a rotation-invariant representation of planar shapes. In particular, this representation encodes shapes as vectors such that the Euclidean distance between them serves as a valid shape distance. For standardized, star-shaped…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hamid Shafieasl , Jeff M. Phillips

The discrete Fr\'echet distance is a popular measure for comparing polygonal curves. An important variant is the discrete Fr\'echet distance under translation, which enables detection of similar movement patterns in different spatial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Karl Bringmann , Marvin Künnemann , André Nusser

We construct a class of bounded domains, on which the squeezing function is not uniformly bounded from below near a smooth and pseudoconvex boundary point.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-04-11 John Erik Fornaess , Feng Rong

We prove a number of double-sided estimates relating discrete counterparts of several classical conformal invariants of a quadrilateral: cross-ratios, extremal lengths and random walk partition functions. The results hold true for any…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Dmitry Chelkak

In this paper, we propose simple numerical algorithms for partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on closed, smooth surfaces (or curves). In particular, we consider PDEs that originate from variational principles defined on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Jay Chu , Richard Tsai

In this paper, we propose a new type of graph, denoted as "embedded-graph", and its theory, which employs a distributed representation to describe the relations on the graph edges. Embedded-graphs can express linguistic and complicated…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Atsushi Yokoyama