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Main Authors: Inauen, Dominik, Menon, Govind
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06541
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author Inauen, Dominik
Menon, Govind
author_facet Inauen, Dominik
Menon, Govind
contents This paper introduces a probabilistic formulation for the isometric embedding of a Riemannian manifold $(M^n,g)$ into Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^q$. Given $α\in ]\tfrac{1}{2},1]$, we show that a $C^{1,α}$ embedding $u: M \to \mathbb{R}^q$ is isometric if and only if the intrinsic and extrinsic constructions of Brownian motion on $u(M)\subset \mathbb{R}^q$ yield processes with the same law. The equivalence is first established for smooth embeddings; this is followed by a renormalization procedure for $C^{1,α}$ embeddings. In particular, we also construct extrinsic Brownian motion when $g \in C^2$ and $u$ is a $C^{1,α}$ isometric embedding. This formulation is based on a gedanken experiment that relates the intrinsic and extrinsic constructions of Brownian motion on an embedded manifold to the measurement of geodesic distance by observers in distinct frames of reference. This viewpoint provides a thermodynamic formalism for the isometric embedding problem that is suited to applications in geometric deep learning, stochastic optimization and turbulence.
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spellingShingle Stochastic Nash evolution
Inauen, Dominik
Menon, Govind
Probability
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
57N35, 60J65
This paper introduces a probabilistic formulation for the isometric embedding of a Riemannian manifold $(M^n,g)$ into Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^q$. Given $α\in ]\tfrac{1}{2},1]$, we show that a $C^{1,α}$ embedding $u: M \to \mathbb{R}^q$ is isometric if and only if the intrinsic and extrinsic constructions of Brownian motion on $u(M)\subset \mathbb{R}^q$ yield processes with the same law. The equivalence is first established for smooth embeddings; this is followed by a renormalization procedure for $C^{1,α}$ embeddings. In particular, we also construct extrinsic Brownian motion when $g \in C^2$ and $u$ is a $C^{1,α}$ isometric embedding. This formulation is based on a gedanken experiment that relates the intrinsic and extrinsic constructions of Brownian motion on an embedded manifold to the measurement of geodesic distance by observers in distinct frames of reference. This viewpoint provides a thermodynamic formalism for the isometric embedding problem that is suited to applications in geometric deep learning, stochastic optimization and turbulence.
title Stochastic Nash evolution
topic Probability
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
57N35, 60J65
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06541