John Wilson Peoples | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

A Higher Order Local Mesh Method for Approximating 1-Laplacians on Unknown Manifolds

We introduce a numerical method for approximating arbitrary differential operators on vector fields in the weak form given point cloud data sampled randomly from a $d$ dimensional manifold embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$. This method generalizes the local linear mesh method to the local curved mesh method, thus, allowing for the estimation of differential operators with nontrivial Christoffel symbols, such as the Bochner or Hodge Laplacians. In particular, we leverage the potentially small intrinsic dimension of the manifold $(d \ll n)$ to construct local parameterizations that incorporate both local meshes and higher-order curvature information. The former is constructed using low dimensional meshes obtained from local data projected to the tangent spaces, while the latter is obtained by fitting local polynomials with the generalized moving least squares. Theoretically, we prove the spectral convergence for the proposed method for the estimation of the Bochner Laplacian. We provide numerical results supporting the theoretical convergence rates for the Bochner and Hodge Laplacians on simple manifolds.

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arXiv2023

Radial basis approximation of tensor fields on manifolds: From operator estimation to manifold learning

In this paper, we study the Radial Basis Function (RBF) approximation to differential operators on smooth tensor fields defined on closed Riemannian submanifolds of Euclidean space, identified by randomly sampled point cloud data. {The formulation in this paper leverages a fundamental fact that the covariant derivative on a submanifold is the projection of the directional derivative in the ambient Euclidean space onto the tangent space of the submanifold. To differentiate a test function (or vector field) on the submanifold with respect to the Euclidean metric, the RBF interpolation is applied to extend the function (or vector field) in the ambient Euclidean space. When the manifolds are unknown, we develop an improved second-order local SVD technique for estimating local tangent spaces on the manifold. When the classical pointwise non-symmetric RBF formulation is used to solve Laplacian eigenvalue problems, we found that while accurate estimation of the leading spectra can be obtained with large enough data, such an approximation often produces irrelevant complex-valued spectra (or pollution) as the true spectra are real-valued and positive. To avoid such an issue,} we introduce a symmetric RBF discrete approximation of the Laplacians induced by a weak formulation on appropriate Hilbert spaces. Unlike the non-symmetric approximation, this formulation guarantees non-negative real-valued spectra and the orthogonality of the eigenvectors. Theoretically, we establish the convergence of the eigenpairs of both the Laplace-Beltrami operator and Bochner Laplacian {for the symmetric formulation} in the limit of large data with convergence rates. Numerically, we provide supporting examples for approximations of the Laplace-Beltrami operator and various vector Laplacians, including the Bochner, Hodge, and Lichnerowicz Laplacians.

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arXiv2022

A Note on Quantum Odometers

We discuss various aspects of noncommutative geometry of smooth subalgebras of Bunce-Deddens-Toeplitz Algebras.

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arXiv2019

A Note on Spectral Triples on the Quantum Disk

By modifying the ideas from our previous paper [SIGMA 13 (2017), 075, 26 pages, arXiv:1705.04005], we construct spectral triples from implementations of covariant derivations on the quantum disk.

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