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Principal arc analysis on direct product manifolds
We propose a new approach to analyze data that naturally lie on manifolds. We
focus on a special class of manifolds, called direct product manifolds, whose
intrinsic dimension could be very high. Our method finds a low-dimensional
representation of the manifold that can be used to find and visualize the
principal modes of variation of the data, as Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
does in linear spaces. The proposed method improves upon earlier manifold
extensions of PCA by more concisely capturing important nonlinear modes. For
the special case of data on a sphere, variation following nongeodesic arcs is
captured in a single mode, compared to the two modes needed by previous
methods. Several computational and statistical challenges are resolved. The
development on spheres forms the basis of principal arc analysis on more
complicated manifolds. The benefits of the method are illustrated by a data
example using medial representations in image analysis.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS370 the Annals of
Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Scale-discretised ridgelet transform on the sphere
We revisit the spherical Radon transform, also called the Funk-Radon
transform, viewing it as an axisymmetric convolution on the sphere. Viewing the
spherical Radon transform in this manner leads to a straightforward derivation
of its spherical harmonic representation, from which we show the spherical
Radon transform can be inverted exactly for signals exhibiting antipodal
symmetry. We then construct a spherical ridgelet transform by composing the
spherical Radon and scale-discretised wavelet transforms on the sphere. The
resulting spherical ridgelet transform also admits exact inversion for
antipodal signals. The restriction to antipodal signals is expected since the
spherical Radon and ridgelet transforms themselves result in signals that
exhibit antipodal symmetry. Our ridgelet transform is defined natively on the
sphere, probes signal content globally along great circles, does not exhibit
blocking artefacts, supports spin signals and exhibits an exact and explicit
inverse transform. No alternative ridgelet construction on the sphere satisfies
all of these properties. Our implementation of the spherical Radon and ridgelet
transforms is made publicly available. Finally, we illustrate the effectiveness
of spherical ridgelets for diffusion magnetic resonance imaging of white matter
fibers in the brain.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, matches version accepted by EUSIPCO, code
available at http://www.s2let.or
On the multiplicity of arrangements of congruent zones on the sphere
Consider an arrangement of congruent zones on the -dimensional unit
sphere , where a zone is the intersection of an origin symmetric
Euclidean plank with . We prove that, for sufficiently large , it
is possible to arrange congruent zones of suitable width on such
that no point belongs to more than a constant number of zones, where the
constant depends only on the dimension and the width of the zones. Furthermore,
we also show that it is possible to cover by congruent zones such
that each point of belongs to at most zones, where the
is a constant that depends only on . This extends the corresponding
-dimensional result of Frankl, Nagy and Nasz\'odi (2016). Moreover, we also
examine coverings of with congruent zones under the condition that
each point of the sphere belongs to the interior of at most zones
Front dynamics in turbulent media
A study of a stable front propagating in a turbulent medium is presented. The
front is generated through a reaction-diffusion equation, and the turbulent
medium is statistically modeled using a Langevin equation. Numerical
simulations indicate the presence of two different dynamical regimes. These
regimes appear when the turbulent flow either wrinkles a still rather sharp
propagating interfase or broadens it. Specific dependences of the propagating
velocities on stirring intensities appropriate to each case are found and
fitted when possible according to theoretically predicted laws. Different
turbulent spectra are considered.Comment: 8 pages, REVTEX, 6 postscript figures included. To appear in Phys.
Fluids (1997
Spatial distribution and statistical properties of small-scale convective vortex-like motions in a quiet Sun region
High-resolution observations of a quiet Sun internetwork region taken with
the Solar 1-m Swedish Telescope in La Palma are analyzed. We determine the
location of small-scale vortex motions in the solar photospheric region by
computing the horizontal proper motions of small-scale structures on time
series of images. These plasma convectively-driven swirl motions are associated
to: (1) downdrafts (that have been commonly explained as corresponding to sites
where the plasma is cooled down and hence returned to the interior below the
visible photospheric level), and (2) horizontal velocity vectors converging
into a central point. The sink cores are proved to be the final destination of
passive floats tracing plasma flows towards the center of each vortex. We
establish the occurrence of these events to be 1.4 x 10^(-3) and 1.6 x 10^(-3)
vortices Mm^(-2) min^(-1) respectively for two time series analyzed here.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of
the Royal Astronomical Societ
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