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We define a (pseudo-)distance between graphs based on the spectrum of the normalized Laplacian, which is easy to compute or to estimate numerically. It can therefore serve as a rough classification of large empirical graphs into families…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Jiao Gu , Jürgen Jost , Shiping Liu , Peter F. Stadler

Betweenness as a relation between three individual points has been widely studied in geometry and axiomatized by several authors in different contexts. The article proposes a more general notion of betweenness as a relation between three…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Sanaz Azimipour , Pavel Naumov

We study a wide spectrum of incidence problems involving points and curves or points and surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$. The current (and in fact the only viable) approach to such problems, pioneered by Guth and Katz [2010,2015], requires a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-01 Micha Sharir , Noam Solomon

We study two popular ways to sketch the shortest path distances of an input graph. The first is distance preservers, which are sparse subgraphs that agree with the distances of the original graph on a given set of demand pairs. Prior work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Greg Bodwin , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

In a recent paper, Aldous, Blanc and Curien asked which distributions can be expressed as the distance between two independent random variables on some separable measured metric space. We show that every nonnegative discrete distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Renan Gross

This paper has two aims, first one is to introduce special kind of proximal contractions guaranteeing a finite number of best proximity points, and second one is to derive best proximity point results for perimetric contractions. To meet…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Hiranmoy Garai , Evgeniy Petrov , Pratikshan Mondal , Lakshmi Kanta Dey

Metrics on the space of sets of trajectories are important for scientists in the field of computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and general artificial intelligence. However, existing notions of closeness between sets of trajectories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 José Bento , Jia Jie Zhu

In this work, the relativistic phenomena of Lorentz contraction and time dilation are derived using a modified distance formula appropriate for discrete space. This new distance formula is different than Pythagoras's theorem but converges…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-10 David Crouse , Joseph Skufca

We study augmenting a plane Euclidean network with a segment, called a shortcut, to minimize the largest distance between any two points along the edges of the resulting network. Problems of this type have received considerable attention…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Delia Garijo , Alberto Márquez , Natalia Rodríguez , Rodrigo I. Silveira

We develop a Morse-Lusternik-Schnirelmann theory for the distance between two points of a smoothly embedded circle in a complete Riemannian manifold. This theory suggests very naturally a definition of width that generalises the classical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Lucas Ambrozio , Rafael Montezuma , Roney Santos

Graphs are used in almost every scientific discipline to express relations among a set of objects. Algorithms that compare graphs, and output a closeness score, or a correspondence among their nodes, are thus extremely important. Despite…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Sam Safavi , José Bento

For arbitrary two probability measures on real d-space with given means and variances (covariance matrices), we provide lower bounds for their total variation distance. In the one-dimensional case, a tight bound is given.

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-27 Tomohiro Nishiyama

In this paper we offer a metric similar to graph edit distance which measures the distance between two (possibly infinite)weighted graphs with finite norm (we define the norm of a graph as the sum of absolute values of its edges). The main…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-16 Hamed Daneshpajouh , Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh , Farzad Didehvar

Linear-width is a well-known and highly regarded graph parameter. The concept of Single Ideal and Linear obstacle serves as an obstruction to linear-width on a connectivity sysem. In this concise paper, we present an alternative proof for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Takaaki Fujita

As subjects perceive the sensory world, different stimuli elicit a number of neural representations. Here, a subjective distance between stimuli is defined, measuring the degree of similarity between the underlying representations. As an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 D. Oliva , I. Samengo , S. Leutgeb , S. Mizumori

We prove several inequalities estimating the distance between volumes of two bodies in terms of the maximal or minimal difference between areas of sections or projections of these bodies. We also provide extensions in which volume is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Apostolos Giannopoulos , Alexander Koldobsky

We investigate the problem of reconstructing a set $P\subseteq \mathbb{R}$ of distinct points, where the only information available about $P$ consists of the distances between some of the pairs of points. More precisely, we examine which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-24 Richard Montgomery , Rajko Nenadov , Julien Portier , Tibor Szabó

We introduce a reduction from the distinct distances problem in ${\mathbb R}^d$ to an incidence problem with $(d-1)$-flats in ${\mathbb R}^{2d-1}$. Deriving the conjectured bound for this incidence problem (the bound predicted by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Sam Bardwell-Evans , Adam Sheffer

We show that large subsets of vector spaces over finite fields determine certain point configurations with prescribed distance structure. More specifically, we consider the complete graph with vertices as the points of $A \subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Alex Iosevich , Hans Parshall

This article firstly develops a proximal explicit approach for the generalized method of lines. In such a method, the domain of the PDE in question is discretized in lines and the equation solution is written on these lines as functions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Fabio Botelho