Hyperspherical harmonics for tetraatomic systems

A recursion procedure for the analytical generation of hyperspherical harmonics for tetraatomic systems, in terms of row-orthonormal hyperspherical coordinates, is presented. Using this approach and an algebraic Mathematica program, these harmonics were obtained for values of the hyperangular momentum quantum number up to 30 (about 43.8 million of them). Their properties are presented and discussed. Since they are regular at the poles of the tetraatomic kinetic energy operator, are complete, and are not highly oscillatory, they constitute an excellent basis set for performing a partial wave expansion of the wave function of the corresponding Schrödinger equation in the strong interaction region of nuclear configuration space. This basis set is, in addition, numerically very efficient and should permit benchmark-quality calculations of state-to-state differential and integral cross sections for those systems

A clever elimination strategy for efficient minimal solvers

We present a new insight into the systematic generation of minimal solvers in computer vision, which leads to smaller and faster solvers. Many minimal problem formulations are coupled sets of linear and polynomial equations where image measurements enter the linear equations only. We show that it is useful to solve such systems by first eliminating all the unknowns that do not appear in the linear equations and then extending solutions to the rest of unknowns. This can be generalized to fully non-linear systems by linearization via lifting. We demonstrate that this approach leads to more efficient solvers in three problems of partially calibrated relative camera pose computation with unknown focal length and/or radial distortion. Our approach also generates new interesting constraints on the fundamental matrices of partially calibrated cameras, which were not known before.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure

Richardson Extrapolation for Linearly Degenerate Discontinuities

In this paper we investigate the use of Richardson extrapolation to estimate the convergence rates for numerical solutions to advection problems involving discontinuities. We use modified equation analysis to describe the expectation of the approach. In general, the results do not agree with a-priori estimates of the convergence rates. However, we identify one particular use case where Richardson extrapolation does yield the proper result. We then demonstrate this result using a number of numerical examples.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figur

Simplicial ideals, 2-linear ideals and arithmetical rank

In the first part of this paper we study scrollers and linearly joined varieties. A particular class of varieties, of important interest in classical Geometry are Cohen--Macaulay varieties of minimal degree. They appear naturally studying the fiber cone of of a codimension two toric ideals. Let $I\subset S$ be an ideal defining a linearly joined arrangement of varieties: - We compute the depth, and the cohomological dimension. is the connectedness dimension. - We characterize sets of generators of $I$, and give an effective algorithm to find equations, as an application we compute arithmetical rank. in the case if $I$ defines a union of linear spaces, (ara =projective dimension), in particular this applies to any square free monomial ideal having a $2-$ linear resolution. - In the case where $V$ is a union of linear spaces, the ideal $I$, can be characterized by a tableau, which is an extension of a Ferrer (or Young) tableau. - We introduce a new class of ideals called simplicial ideals, ideals defining linearly-joined varieties are a particular case of simplicial ideals.Comment: 31 pages, 5 figure

Nilpotent Bases for a Class of Non-Integrable Distributions with Applications to Trajectory Generation for Nonholonomic Systems

This paper develops a constructive method for finding a nilpotent basis for a special class of smooth nonholonomic distributions. The main tool is the use of the Goursat normal form theorem which arises in the study of exterior differential systems. The results are applied to the problem of finding a set of nilpotent input vector fields for a nonholonomic control system, which can then used to construct explicit trajectories to drive the system between any two points. A kinematic model of a rolling penny is used to illustrate this approach. The methods presented here extend previous work using "chained form" and cast that work into a coordinate-free setting