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Exact geometric theory of dendronized polymer dynamics

Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz

Dendronized polymers consist of an elastic backbone with a set of iterated branch structures (dendrimers) attached at every base point of the backbone. The conformations of such molecules depend on the elastic deformation of the backbone and the branches, ...

2012

Invariant Higher-Order Variational Problems

Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz

We investigate higher-order geometric k-splines for template matching on Lie groups. This is motivated by the need to apply diffeomorphic template matching to a series of images, e.g., in longitudinal studies of Computational Anatomy. Our approach formulat ...

2012

The role of the tangent bundle for symmetry operations and modulated structures

Gervais Chapuis, Kurt Schenk, Philippe Kocian

An equivalence relation on the tangent bundle of a manifold is defined in order to extend a structure (modulated or not) onto it. This extension affords a representation of a structure in any tangent space and that in another tangent space can easily be de ...

2010

The geometric structure of complex fluids

Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz

This paper develops the theory of affine Euler-Poincare and affine Lie-Poisson reductions and applies these processes to various examples of complex fluids, including Yang-Mills and Hall magnetohydrodynamics for fluids and superfluids, spin glasses, microf ...

Elsevier2009

On Singular Poisson Sternberg Spaces

We obtain a theory of stratified Sternberg spaces thereby extending the theory of cotangent bundle reduction for free actions to the singular case where the action on the base manifold consists of only one orbit type. We find that the symplectic reduced sp ...

2009

Infinite dimensional geodesic flows and the universal Teichmüller space

François Gay-Balmaz

The subject of this thesis lies in the intersection of differential geometry and functional analysis, a domain usually called global analysis. A central object in this work is the group Ds(M) of all orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of a compact manif ...

EPFL2009

Differential geometry applied to crystallography

Philippe Kocian

The mathematical facet of modern crystallography is essentially based on analytical geometry, linear algebra as well as group theory. This study endeavours to approach the geometry and symmetry of crystals using the tools furnished by differential geometry ...

EPFL2009

Static Models of Derivative-Coordinates Phase Spaces for Multivariate Time Series Classification: An Application to Signature Verification

Jonas Richiardi, Andrzej Drygajlo, Krzysztof Kryszczuk

Multivariate time series are sequences, whose order is provided by a time index; thus, most classifiers used on such data treat time as a special quantity, and encode it, structurally in a model. A typical example of such models is the hidden Markov model, ...

Springer-Verlag New York, Ms Ingrid Cunningham, 175 Fifth Ave, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

Affine Lie-Poisson reduction, Yang-Mills magnetohydrodynamics, and superfluids

Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz

This paper develops the theory of affine Lie-Poisson reduction and applies this process to Yang-Mills and Hall magnetohydrodynamics for fluids and superfluids. As a consequence of this approach, the associated Poisson brackets are obtained by reduction of ...

2008

The symplectic normal space of a cotangent-lifted action

For the cotangent bundle T*Q of a smooth Riemannian manifold acted upon by the lift of a smooth and proper action by isometries of a Lie group, we characterize the symplectic normal space at any point. We show that this space splits as the direct sum of th ...

2008