Coarse extrinsic curvature of Riemannian submanifolds

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Main Authors: Arnaudon, Marc, Li, Xue-Mei, Petko, Benedikt
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author Arnaudon, Marc
Li, Xue-Mei
Petko, Benedikt
author_facet Arnaudon, Marc
Li, Xue-Mei
Petko, Benedikt
contents We introduce a novel concept of coarse extrinsic curvature for Riemannian submanifolds, inspired by Ollivier's notion of coarse Ricci curvature. This curvature is derived from the Wasserstein 1-distance between probability measures supported in the tubular neighborhood of a submanifold, providing new insights into the extrinsic curvature of isometrically embedded manifolds in Euclidean spaces. The framework also offers a method to approximate the mean curvature from statistical data, such as point clouds generated by a Poisson point process. This approach has potential applications in manifold learning and the study of metric embeddings, enabling the inference of geometric information from empirical data.
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spellingShingle Coarse extrinsic curvature of Riemannian submanifolds
Arnaudon, Marc
Li, Xue-Mei
Petko, Benedikt
Differential Geometry
53B25 (Primary) 49Q22 (Secondary)
We introduce a novel concept of coarse extrinsic curvature for Riemannian submanifolds, inspired by Ollivier's notion of coarse Ricci curvature. This curvature is derived from the Wasserstein 1-distance between probability measures supported in the tubular neighborhood of a submanifold, providing new insights into the extrinsic curvature of isometrically embedded manifolds in Euclidean spaces. The framework also offers a method to approximate the mean curvature from statistical data, such as point clouds generated by a Poisson point process. This approach has potential applications in manifold learning and the study of metric embeddings, enabling the inference of geometric information from empirical data.
title Coarse extrinsic curvature of Riemannian submanifolds
topic Differential Geometry
53B25 (Primary) 49Q22 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08031