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Planck 2013 results. XXVI. Background geometry and topology of the Universe

Julien Lesgourgues, Jason Douglas McEwen, Fabio Finelli

The new cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps from Planck provide the highest-quality full-sky view of the surface of last scattering available to date. This allows us to detect possible departures from the standard model of a globally homogen ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

Graph-based Image Inpainting

Michaël Defferrard

The project goal was to explore the applications of spectral graph theory to address the inpainting problem of large missing chunks. We used a non-local patch graph representation of the image and proposed a structure detector which leverages the graph rep ...

2014

Constructing reparameterization invariant metrics on spaces of plane curves

Martins Bruveris, Martin Bauer

Metrics on shape spaces are used to describe deformations that take one shape to another, and to define a distance between shapes. We study a family of metrics on the space of curves, which includes several recently proposed metrics, for which the metrics ...

Elsevier2014

Integrable G-strands on semisimple Lie groups

Tudor Ratiu, François Gay-Balmaz

The present paper derives systems of partial differential equations that admit a quadratic zero curvature representation for an arbitrary real semisimple Lie algebra. It also determines the general form of Hamilton's principles and Hamiltonians for these s ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

Phase-field modeling of micropore formation in a solidifying alloy

Hossein Meidani

This thesis is focused on the study of the morphology of micropores formed during solidification of metallic alloys. Micropores constrained to form in well-developed dendritic solid network adopt complex non-spherical shapes. Previous studies using X-ray t ...

EPFL2013

Reverse Biasing and Breakdown Behavior of PureB Diodes

Edoardo Charbon, Mahdi Aminian, Lin Qi

In PureB technology, a layer of pure boron is deposited on Si using a commercial single-wafer Si/SiGe epitaxial CVD reactor, forming ideal nm-deep ultrashallow junctions with low saturation currents [1]. As another attractive feature, the PureB layer itsel ...

2013

Localization of deformation in thin shells under indentation

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

We perform a hybrid experimental and numerical study of the localization of deformation in thin spherical elastic shells under indentation. Past a critical indentation, the deformation of the shell ceases to be axisymmetric and sharp points of localized cu ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Contorting a heavy and naturally curved elastic rod

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

We investigate how the configurations obtained from the writhing of a heavy elastic rod are influenced by its intrinsic natural curvature. To this end, we perform a combination of numerics and precision model experiments on the compression or twisting of a ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Tangent space estimation for smooth embeddings of Riemannian manifolds

Pascal Frossard, Elif Vural, Hemant Tyagi

Numerous dimensionality reduction problems in data analysis involve the recovery of low-dimensional models or the learning of manifolds underlying sets of data. Many manifold learning methods require the estimation of the tangent space of the manifold at a ...

2013

Fixed points and amenability in non-positive curvature

Nicolas Monod

Consider a proper cocompact CAT(0) space X. We give a complete algebraic characterisation of amenable groups of isometries of X. For amenable discrete subgroups, an even narrower description is derived, implying Q-linearity in the torsion-free case. We est ...

Springer2013