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Minkowski compactness measure
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Published in: Computational Intelligence (UKCI), 2013, 13th UK Workshop, Guildford UK.
Date of Conference: 9-11 Sept. 2013Many compactness measures are available in the
literature. In this paper we present a generalised compactness
measure Cq(S) which unifies previously existing definitions of
compactness. The new measure is based on Minkowski distances
and incorporates a parameter q which modifies the behaviour of
the compactness measure. Different shapes are considered to be
most compact depending on the value of q: for q = 2, the most
compact shape in 2D (3D) is a circle (a sphere); for q → ∞,
the most compact shape is a square (a cube); and for q = 1, the
most compact shape is a square (a octahedron).
For a given shape S, measure Cq(S) can be understood as a
function of q and as such it is possible to calculate a spectum of
Cq(S) for a range of q. This produces a particular compactness
signature for the shape S, which provides additional shape
information.
The experiments section of this paper provides illustrative
examples where measure Cq(S) is applied to various shapes and
describes how measure and its spectrum can be used for image
processing applications
Minimizers for nonlocal perimeters of Minkowski type
We study a nonlocal perimeter functional inspired by the Minkowski content,
whose main feature is that it interpolates between the classical perimeter and
the volume functional. This problem is related by a generalized coarea formula
to a Dirichlet energy functional in which the energy density is the local
oscillation of a function.
These two nonlocal functionals arise in concrete applications, since the
nonlocal character of the problems and the different behaviors of the energy at
different scales allow the preservation of details and irregularities of the
image in the process of removing white noises, thus improving the quality of
the image without losing relevant features.
In this paper, we provide a series of results concerning existence, rigidity
and classification of minimizers, compactness results, isoperimetric
inequalities, Poincar\'e-Wirtinger inequalities and density estimates.
Furthermore, we provide the construction of planelike minimizers for this
generalized perimeter under a small and periodic volume perturbation.Comment: To appear in Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equation
A Remark on the Anisotropic Outer Minkowski content
We study an anisotropic version of the outer Minkowski content of a closed
set in Rn. In particular, we show that it exists on the same class of sets for
which the classical outer Minkowski content coincides with the Hausdorff
measure, and we give its explicit form.Comment: We corrected an error in the orignal manuscript, on p. 14 (the
boundaries of the regularized sets are not necessarily C^{1,1}
Improved sphere packing lower bounds from Hurwitz lattices
In this paper we prove an asymptotic lower bound for the sphere packing
density in dimensions divisible by four. This asymptotic lower bound improves
on previous asymptotic bounds by a constant factor and improves not just lower
bounds for the sphere packing density, but also for the lattice sphere packing
density and, in fact, the Hurwitz lattice sphere packing density.Comment: 12 page
Discreteness without symmetry breaking: a theorem
This paper concerns sprinklings into Minkowski space (Poisson processes). It
proves that there exists no equivariant measurable map from sprinklings to
spacetime directions (even locally). Therefore, if a discrete structure is
associated to a sprinkling in an intrinsic manner, then the structure will not
pick out a preferred frame, locally or globally. This implies that the
discreteness of a sprinkled causal set will not give rise to ``Lorentz
breaking'' effects like modified dispersion relations. Another consequence is
that there is no way to associate a finite-valency graph to a sprinkling
consistently with Lorentz invariance.Comment: 7 pages, laTe
Isoperimetric problems for a nonlocal perimeter of Minkowski type
We prove a quantitative version of the isoperimetric inequality for a non
local perimeter of Minkowski type. We also apply this result to study
isoperimetric problems with repulsive interaction terms, under convexity
constraints. We show existence of minimizers, and we describe the shape of
minimizers in certain parameter regimes
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