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Unsolved Problems in Virtual Knot Theory and Combinatorial Knot Theory
This paper is a concise introduction to virtual knot theory, coupled with a
list of research problems in this field.Comment: 65 pages, 24 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:math/040542
PIMs and invariant parts for shape recognition
Journal ArticleWe present completely new very powerful solutions t o two fundamental problems central to computer vision. 1. Given data sets representing C objects to be stored in a database, and given a new data set for an object, determine the object in the database that is most like the object measured. We solve this problem through use of PIMs ("Polynomial Interpolated Measures"), which, is a new representation integrating implicit polynomial curves and surfaces, explicit polynomials, and discrete data sets which may be sparse. The method provides high accuracy at low computational cost. 2. Given noisy 20 data along a curve (or 30 data along a surface), decompose the data into patches such that new data taken along affine transformation-s or Eucladean transformations of the curve (or surface) can be decomposed into corresponding patches. Then recognition of complex or partially occluded objects can be done in terms of invariantly determined patches. We briefly outline a low computational cost image-database indexing-system based on this representation for objects having complex shape-geometry
On Jordan's measurements
The Jordan measure, the Jordan curve theorem, as well as the other generic
references to Camille Jordan's (1838-1922) achievements highlight that the
latter can hardly be reduced to the "great algebraist" whose masterpiece, the
Trait\'e des substitutions et des equations alg\'ebriques, unfolded the
group-theoretical content of \'Evariste Galois's work. The present paper
appeals to the database of the reviews of the Jahrbuch \"uber die Fortschritte
der Mathematik (1868-1942) for providing an overview of Jordan's works. On the
one hand, we shall especially investigate the collective dimensions in which
Jordan himself inscribed his works (1860-1922). On the other hand, we shall
address the issue of the collectives in which Jordan's works have circulated
(1860-1940). Moreover, the time-period during which Jordan has been publishing
his works, i.e., 1860-1922, provides an opportunity to investigate some
collective organizations of knowledge that pre-existed the development of
object-oriented disciplines such as group theory (Jordan-H\"older theorem),
linear algebra (Jordan's canonical form), topology (Jordan's curve), integral
theory (Jordan's measure), etc. At the time when Jordan was defending his
thesis in 1860, it was common to appeal to transversal organizations of
knowledge, such as what the latter designated as the "theory of order." When
Jordan died in 1922, it was however more and more common to point to
object-oriented disciplines as identifying both a corpus of specialized
knowledge and the institutionalized practices of transmissions of a group of
professional specialists
Persistent topology for natural data analysis - A survey
Natural data offer a hard challenge to data analysis. One set of tools is
being developed by several teams to face this difficult task: Persistent
topology. After a brief introduction to this theory, some applications to the
analysis and classification of cells, lesions, music pieces, gait, oil and gas
reservoirs, cyclones, galaxies, bones, brain connections, languages,
handwritten and gestured letters are shown
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