hypersurfaces: The vector distance functions

نویسندگان

  • José Gomes
  • Olivier Faugeras
چکیده

We present a novel method for representing and evolving objects of arbitrary dimension. The method, called the Vector Distance Function (VDF) method, uses the vector that connects any point in space to its closest point on the object. It can deal with smooth manifolds with and without boundaries and with shapes of diierent dimensions. It can be used to evolve such objects according to a variety of motions, including mean curvature. If discontinuous velocity elds are allowed the dimension of the objects can change. The evolution method that we propose guarantees that we stay in the class of VDF's and therefore that the intrinsic properties of the underlying shapes such as their dimension, curvatures can be read oo easily from the VDF and its spatial derivatives at each time instant. The main disadvantage of the method is its redundancy: the size of the representation is always that of the ambient space even though the object we are representing may be of a much lower dimension. This disadvantage is also one of its strengths since it buys us exibility. Reprrsenter et faire voluer des variitts diiirentiables de co-dimension arbitraire plongges dans R n comme l'intersection de n hypersurfaces: les fonctions distance vectorielles. RRsumm : Nous prrsentons une mmthode pour reprrsenter et faire voluer des objets de dimension arbitraire. La mmthode, dite de la Fonction Distance Vectoriellee (VDF), utilise le vecteur qui joint tout point de l'espace son point le plus proche sur l'objet et est donc applicable des objets de toute dimension, avec ou sans bord. Elle peut tre utilisse pour simuler, entre autres, le mouvement par courbure moyenne. L'utilisation de champs de vitesse discontinus permet l'objet de changer de dimension en cours d''volution, la fonction vectorielle associiee restant toujours dans la classe des VDF. Par conssquent, les propriitts intrinssques de ladite variitt, comme sa dimension et sa courbure, sont accessibles chaque instant via le calcul des ddrives spatiales d'ordre 2 de sa VDF. La principale faiblesse de cette mmthode rrside dans sa redondance: la taille de la reprrsentation est toujours celle de l'espace ambiant alors mmme que la variitt ddcrite peut tre de dimension faible. Dans le mmme temps, ceci est une force de la mmthode puisque que cela procure une plus grande exibilitt.

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Hoph Hypersurfaces of Sasakian Space Form with Parallel Ricci Operator Esmaiel Abedi, Mohammad Ilmakchi Department of Mathematics, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

Let M^2n be a hoph hypersurfaces with parallel ricci operator and tangent to structure vector field in Sasakian space form. First, we show that structures and properties of hypersurfaces and hoph hypersurfaces in Sasakian space form. Then we study the structure of hypersurfaces and hoph hypersurfaces with a parallel ricci tensor structure and show that there are two cases. In the first case, th...

متن کامل

Pseudo Ricci symmetric real hypersurfaces of a complex projective space

Pseudo Ricci symmetric real hypersurfaces of a complex projective space are classified and it is proved that there are no pseudo Ricci symmetric real hypersurfaces of the complex projective space CPn for which the vector field ξ from the almost contact metric structure (φ, ξ, η, g) is a principal curvature vector field.

متن کامل

Hypersurfaces of a Sasakian space form with recurrent shape operator

Let $(M^{2n},g)$ be a real hypersurface with recurrent shapeoperator and tangent to the structure vector field $xi$ of the Sasakian space form$widetilde{M}(c)$. We show that if the shape operator $A$ of $M$ isrecurrent then it is parallel. Moreover, we show that $M$is locally a product of two constant $phi-$sectional curvaturespaces.

متن کامل

Kähler Metrics Generated by Functions of the Time-like Distance in the Flat Kähler-lorentz Space

We prove that every Kähler metric, whose potential is a function of the timelike distance in the flat Kähler-Lorentz space, is of quasi-constant holomorphic sectional curvatures, satisfying certain conditions. This gives a local classification of the Kähler manifolds with the above mentioned metrics. New examples of Sasakian space forms are obtained as real hypersurfaces of a Kähler space form ...

متن کامل

Tangent Bundle of the Hypersurfaces in a Euclidean Space

Let $M$ be an orientable hypersurface in the Euclidean space $R^{2n}$ with induced metric $g$ and $TM$ be its tangent bundle. It is known that the tangent bundle $TM$ has induced metric $overline{g}$ as submanifold of the Euclidean space $R^{4n}$ which is not a natural metric in the sense that the submersion $pi :(TM,overline{g})rightarrow (M,g)$ is not the Riemannian submersion. In this paper...

متن کامل

Minimality and Harmonicity for Hopf Vector Fields

We determine when the Hopf vector fields on orientable real hypersurfaces (M, g) in complex space forms are minimal or harmonic. Furthermore, we determine when these vector fields give rise to harmonic maps from (M, g) to the unit tangent sphere bundle (T1M, gS). In particular, we consider the special case of Hopf hypersurfaces and of ruled hypersurfaces. The Hopf vector fields on Hopf hypersur...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

عنوان ژورنال:

دوره   شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000