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Scattered manifold-valued data approximation
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Scattered manifold-valued data approximation

Philipp Grohs, Markus Sprecher and Thomas Yu
Numerische Mathematik, v 135(4), pp 987-1010
2017
PMID: 28615747
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00211-016-0823-0View
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Abstract

Scattered data 41AXX 53B20 Approximation Secondary 65D15 Riemannian data 35RXX Model reduction Primary 65D07 Manifold-valued function
We consider the problem of approximating a function f from an Euclidean domain to a manifold M by scattered samples \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$(f(\xi _i))_{i\in \mathcal {I}}$$\end{document} ( f ( ξ i ) ) i ∈ I , where the data sites \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$(\xi _i)_{i\in \mathcal {I}}$$\end{document} ( ξ i ) i ∈ I are assumed to be locally close but can otherwise be far apart points scattered throughout the domain. We introduce a natural approximant based on combining the moving least square method and the Karcher mean. We prove that the proposed approximant inherits the accuracy order and the smoothness from its linear counterpart. The analysis also tells us that the use of Karcher’s mean (dependent on a Riemannian metric and the associated exponential map) is inessential and one can replace it by a more general notion of ‘center of mass’ based on a general retraction on the manifold. Consequently, we can substitute the Karcher mean by a more computationally efficient mean. We illustrate our work with numerical results which confirm our theoretical findings.

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