Reconstruction and interpolation of manifolds I: The geometric Whitney problem

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Reconstruction and interpolation of manifolds I: The geometric Whitney problem

Fefferman, C; Ivanov, S; Kurylev, Y; Lassas, M; Narayanan, H; (2015) Reconstruction and interpolation of manifolds I: The geometric Whitney problem. Green open access

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Abstract

We study the geometric Whitney problem on how a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ can be constructed to approximate a metric space $(X,d_X)$. This problem is closely related to manifold interpolation (or manifold learning) where a smooth $n$-dimensional surface $S\subset {\mathbb R}^m$, $m>n$ needs to be constructed to approximate a point cloud in ${\mathbb R}^m$. These questions are encountered in differential geometry, machine learning, and in many inverse problems encountered in applications. The determination of a Riemannian manifold includes the construction of its topology, differentiable structure, and metric. We give constructive solutions to the above problems. Moreover, we characterize the metric spaces that can be approximated, by Riemannian manifolds with bounded geometry: We give sufficient conditions to ensure that a metric space can be approximated, in the Gromov-Hausdorff or quasi-isometric sense, by a Riemannian manifold of a fixed dimension and with bounded diameter, sectional curvature, and injectivity radius. Also, we show that similar conditions, with modified values of parameters, are necessary. Moreover, we characterise the subsets of Euclidean spaces that can be approximated in the Hausdorff metric by submanifolds of a fixed dimension and with bounded principal curvatures and normal injectivity radius. The above interpolation problems are also studied for unbounded metric sets and manifolds. The results for Riemannian manifolds are based on a generalisation of the Whitney embedding construction where approximative coordinate charts are embedded in ${\mathbb R}^m$ and interpolated to a smooth surface. We also give algorithms that solve the problems for finite data.

Type:	Working / discussion paper
Title:	Reconstruction and interpolation of manifolds I: The geometric Whitney problem
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00674v1
Language:	English
Keywords:	Whitney’s extension problem, Riemannian manifolds, machine learning, inverse problems
UCL classification:	UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1522488