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This paper presents a unified metric-based framework for triangle geometric inequalities using barycentric coordinates. By interpreting classical inequalities as squared distances between points(a process termed metricization)we derive and…

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Given a closed oriented manifold or more generally a group homology class, we introduce the spherical Plateau problem, which is a variational problem corresponding to a topological invariant called the spherical volume. In principle, its…

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The optimal transportation problem defines a geometry of probability measures which leads to a definition for weighted averages (barycenters) of measures, finding application in the machine learning and computer vision communities as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 David Gentile , James M. Murphy

We study the problem of estimating the barycenter of a distribution given i.i.d. data in a geodesic space. Assuming an upper curvature bound in Alexandrov's sense and a support condition ensuring the strong geodesic convexity of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Victor-Emmanuel Brunel , Jordan Serres

In this paper, we generalize the notions of centroids and barycenters to the broad class of information-theoretic distortion measures called Bregman divergences. Bregman divergences are versatile, and unify quadratic geometric distances…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-11-22 Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock

This note proves a result on the existence of barycenters in a class of uniformly convex geodesic spaces.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Laurentiu Leustean , Adriana Nicolae , Alexandru Zaharescu

The conformal barycenter of a point cloud on the sphere at infinity of the Poincar\'e ball model of hyperbolic space is a hyperbolic analogue of the geometric median of a point cloud in Euclidean space. It was defined by Douady and Earle as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Jason Cantarella , Henrik Schumacher

This article presents a novel mathematical formalism for advanced manifold--metric pairs, enhancing the frameworks of geometry and topology. We construct various D-dimensional manifolds and their associated metric spaces using functional…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Pierros Ntelis

This paper is a survey of some arithmetic applications of techniques in the geometry and ergodic theory of negatively curved Riemannian manifolds, focusing on the joint works of the authors. We describe Diophantine approximation results of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Jouni Parkkonen , Frédéric Paulin

Barycentric coordinates provide solutions to the problem of expressing an element of a compact convex set as a convex combination of a finite number of extreme points of the set. They have been studied widely within the geometric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Anna Zamojska-Dzienio

Interpolation of data represented in curvilinear coordinates and possibly having some non-trivial, typically Riemannian or semi-Riemannian geometry is an ubiquitous task in all of physics. In this work we present a covariant generalization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Pauli Pihajoki , Matias Mannerkoski , Peter H. Johansson

This work establishes fast rates of convergence for empirical barycenters over a large class of geodesic spaces with curvature bounds in the sense of Alexandrov. More specifically, we show that parametric rates of convergence are achievable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Thibaut Le Gouic , Quentin Paris , Philippe Rigollet , Austin J. Stromme

We present a method for establishing invariant manifolds for saddle--center fixed points. The method is based on cone conditions, suitably formulated to allow for application in computer assisted proofs, and does not require rigorous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-08-29 M. J. Capiński , A. Wasieczko

We give rigidity results for the discrete Bonnet-Myers diameter bound and the Lichnerowicz eigenvalue estimate. Both inequalities are sharp if and only if the underlying graph is a hypercube. The proofs use well-known semigroup methods as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Shiping Liu , Florentin Münch , Norbert Peyerimhoff

We introduce a notion of barycenter of a probability measure related to the symmetric mean of a collection of nonnegative real numbers. Our definition is inspired by the work of Hal\'asz and Sz\'ekely, who in 1976 proved a law of large…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Jairo Bochi , Godofredo Iommi , Mario Ponce

Consider a complete Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ and optimal transport problems on it with cost functions of the form $c(x,y) = h(d_{{g}}(x,y))$. We study the absolute continuity of the corresponding generalized Wasserstein barycenters of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Jianyu Ma

We study the resonant prescribed T-curvature problem on a compact 4-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary. We derive sharp energy and gradient estimates of the associated Euler-Lagrange functional to characterize the critical points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye

We study the barycenter of the Hellinger--Kantorovich metric over non-negative measures on compact, convex subsets of $\mathbb{R}^d$. The article establishes existence, uniqueness (under suitable assumptions) and equivalence between a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Gero Friesecke , Daniel Matthes , Bernhard Schmitzer

We propose a new embedding method which is particularly well-suited for settings where the sample size greatly exceeds the ambient dimension. Our technique consists of partitioning the space into simplices and then embedding the data points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Eran Kaufman , Aryeh Kontorovich , Gabriel Nivasch , Ofir Pele

Nonlinear analysis has played a prominent role in the recent developments in geometry and topology. The study of the Yang-Mills equation and its cousins gave rise to the Donaldson invariants and more recently, the Seiberg-Witten invariants.…

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