Gauge freedom, anholonomy, and Hopf index of a three-dimensional unit vector field

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 5438-5441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radha Balakrishnan ◽  
A. R. Bishop ◽  
R. Dandoloff
Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 2939
Author(s):  
Yong Hong ◽  
Jin Liu ◽  
Zahid Jahangir ◽  
Sheng He ◽  
Qing Zhang

This paper provides an efficient way of addressing the problem of detecting or estimating the 6-Dimensional (6D) pose of objects from an RGB image. A quaternion is used to define an object′s three-dimensional pose, but the pose represented by q and the pose represented by -q are equivalent, and the L2 loss between them is very large. Therefore, we define a new quaternion pose loss function to solve this problem. Based on this, we designed a new convolutional neural network named Q-Net to estimate an object’s pose. Considering that the quaternion′s output is a unit vector, a normalization layer is added in Q-Net to hold the output of pose on a four-dimensional unit sphere. We propose a new algorithm, called the Bounding Box Equation, to obtain 3D translation quickly and effectively from 2D bounding boxes. The algorithm uses an entirely new way of assessing the 3D rotation (R) and 3D translation rotation (t) in only one RGB image. This method can upgrade any traditional 2D-box prediction algorithm to a 3D prediction model. We evaluated our model using the LineMod dataset, and experiments have shown that our methodology is more acceptable and efficient in terms of L2 loss and computational time.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 1950071
Author(s):  
Susan C. Brooks ◽  
Oguz Durumeric ◽  
Jonathan Simon

A ribbon is a smooth mapping (possibly self-intersecting) of an annulus [Formula: see text] in 3-space having constant width [Formula: see text]. Given a regular parametrization [Formula: see text], and a smooth unit vector field [Formula: see text] based along [Formula: see text], for a knot [Formula: see text], we may define a ribbon of width [Formula: see text] associated to [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] as the set of all points [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]. For large [Formula: see text], ribbons, and their outer edge curves, may have self-intersections. In this paper, we analyze how the knot type of the outer ribbon edge [Formula: see text] relates to that of the original knot [Formula: see text]. Generically, as [Formula: see text], there is an eventual constant knot type. This eventual knot type is one of only finitely many possibilities which depend just on the vector field [Formula: see text]. The particular knot type within the finite set depends on the parametrized curves [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and their interactions. We demonstrate a way to control the curves and their parametrizations so that given two knot types [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], we can find a smooth ribbon of constant width connecting curves of these two knot types.


Filomat ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-330
Author(s):  
Gizem Cansu ◽  
Yusuf Yaylı ◽  
İsmail Gök

The aim of the paper is to obtain a new version of Serret-Frenet formulae for a quaternionic curve in R4 by using the method given by Bharathi and Nagaraj. Then, we define quaternionic helices in H named as quaternionic right and left X-helix with the help of given a unit vector field X. Since the quaternion product is not commutative, the authors ([4], [7]) have used by one-sided multiplication to find a space curve related to a given quaternionic curve in previous studies. Firstly, we obtain new expressions by using the right product and the left product for quaternions. Then, we generalized the construction of Serret-Frenet formulae of quaternionic curves. Finally, as an application, we obtain an example that supports the theory of this paper.


ISRN Geometry ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong Hua Hou ◽  
Lei Sun

Let (M,g) be a surface and let (U(TM),G) be the unit tangent bundle of M endowed with the Sasaki metric. We know that any curve Γ(s) in U(TM) consist of a curve γ(s) in M and as unit vector field X(s) along γ(s). In this paper we study the geometric properties γ(s) and X(s) satisfying when Γ(s) is a slant geodesic.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 997
Author(s):  
Rejeb Hadiji ◽  
Carmen Perugia

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of minimizing solutions of a Ginzburg–Landau type functional with a positive weight and with convex potential near 0 and we estimate the energy in this case. We also generalize a lower bound for the energy of unit vector field given initially by Brezis–Merle–Rivière.


1986 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Gluck ◽  
Wolfgang Ziller

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-213
Author(s):  
Fabiano G. B. Brito ◽  
Icaro Gonçalves ◽  
Adriana V. Nicoli

Author(s):  
Mark A. Peletier ◽  
Marco Veneroni

We describe recent work on striped patterns in a system of block copolymers. A by-product of the characterization of such patterns is a new formulation of the eikonal equation. In this formulation, the unknown is a field of projection matrices of the form P = e ⊗ e , where e is a unit vector field. We describe how this formulation is better adapted to the description of striped patterns than the classical eikonal equation, and illustrate this with examples.


1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 1202-1203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Rastall

In earlier papers, a theory of gravity was developed in which the space-time metric depends on a unit vector field and a scalar potential. The formalism becomes much simpler if one uses just a vector field. The theory is equivalent to a special case of the earlier one.


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