The beltway problem over orthogonal groups

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Main Authors: Bendory, Tamir, Edidin, Dan, Mickelin, Oscar
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Published: 2024
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author Bendory, Tamir
Edidin, Dan
Mickelin, Oscar
author_facet Bendory, Tamir
Edidin, Dan
Mickelin, Oscar
contents The classical beltway problem entails recovering a set of points from their unordered pairwise distances on the circle. This problem can be viewed as a special case of the crystallographic phase retrieval problem of recovering a sparse signal from its periodic autocorrelation. Based on this interpretation, and motivated by cryo-electron microscopy, we suggest a natural generalization to orthogonal groups: recovering a sparse signal, up to an orthogonal transformation, from its autocorrelation over the orthogonal group. If the support of the signal is collision-free, we bound the number of solutions to the beltway problem over orthogonal groups, and prove that this bound is exactly one when the support of the signal is radially collision-free (i.e., the support points have distinct magnitudes). We also prove that if the pairwise products of the signal's weights are distinct, then the autocorrelation determines the signal uniquely, up to an orthogonal transformation. We conclude the paper by considering binary signals and show that in this case, the collision-free condition need not be sufficient to determine signals up to orthogonal transformation.
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Bendory, Tamir
Edidin, Dan
Mickelin, Oscar
Signal Processing
The classical beltway problem entails recovering a set of points from their unordered pairwise distances on the circle. This problem can be viewed as a special case of the crystallographic phase retrieval problem of recovering a sparse signal from its periodic autocorrelation. Based on this interpretation, and motivated by cryo-electron microscopy, we suggest a natural generalization to orthogonal groups: recovering a sparse signal, up to an orthogonal transformation, from its autocorrelation over the orthogonal group. If the support of the signal is collision-free, we bound the number of solutions to the beltway problem over orthogonal groups, and prove that this bound is exactly one when the support of the signal is radially collision-free (i.e., the support points have distinct magnitudes). We also prove that if the pairwise products of the signal's weights are distinct, then the autocorrelation determines the signal uniquely, up to an orthogonal transformation. We conclude the paper by considering binary signals and show that in this case, the collision-free condition need not be sufficient to determine signals up to orthogonal transformation.
title The beltway problem over orthogonal groups
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03787