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I want a smooth orthogonalization process
The following question is related to research I am doing on reinforcement learning on manifolds.
I have a set of basis vectors $\boldsymbol{B} = \{\boldsymbol{b}_1,\dots,\boldsymbol{b}_k\}$ that span ...
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Can a Tangent Space always be expressed with “more structure” than just a vector space (e.g. a choice of basis for Stiefel manifold)
I'm currently trying to read about the Stiefel manifold, or set of all $p$ orthonormal $n$-dimensional vectors embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{n\times p}$.
$$\mathcal{V}_p(\mathbb{R}^n) = \{U \in \mathbb{R}^{...
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Variant of Wahba's problem
Wahba's problem is the following:
$$\min_R \sum_{k=1}^K \|v_k - Rw_k\|^2$$
where $v_k$ and $w_k$ are arbitrary $3\times 1$ vectors, and $R$ is a rotation matrix (i.e., orthogonal with $\det(R)=1$).
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Evaluate $\int_\phi e^{tr(RM)} dR$ where $\phi$ is a set of all real orthonormal matrices of a certain size
I am trying to evaluate $\int_\phi e^{tr(RM)} dR$ where $\phi$ is a set of all real orthogonal matrices of a certain size. $M$ is an arbitrary real matrix (of a certain size).
This is equivalent to
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Differentiable functions on $\mathbb{R}^n$ whose derivative is everywhere a scalar multiple of a special orthogonal matrix
The Cauchy–Riemann equations say that if $u : \mathbb{C} \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ is holomorphic then, regarded as a linear transformation of $\mathbb{R}^2$, its derivative is either zero or, up to a ...
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The only rotation fields satisfying this PDE are constant
$\newcommand{\div}{\operatorname{div}}$$\newcommand{\SO}{\operatorname{SO(2)}}$$\newcommand{\R}{\operatorname{\mathbb{R}}}$$\newcommand{\bdx}{\partial_x}$$\newcommand{\bdy}{\partial_y}$$\newcommand{\...
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Characterization of extrinsic distance prevserving embedding (see the definition given!) from low dimensional Euclidean spaces to high dimensions
P.S. I asked the question on MSE more than a week ago, but didn't get any desired answer, so asking here.
Let $m < n \in \mathbb{N}$. Let us equip $\mathbb{R}^m, \mathbb{R}^n $ with their ...
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Can we choose smoothly the singular vectors of a matrix?
$\newcommand{\GLm}{\text{GL}_n^-}$Let $A$ be a real $n \times n$ matrix with non-positive determinant. Suppose that the smallest singular value of $A$ is strictly smaller than all the others (it has ...
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Principal curvatures of $\mathbb{R}^{n^2}$-embedded SO(n)
It's well known that the sectional curvatures of a Lie group, endowed with a left-invariant metric have a nice closed-form formula $k(X,Y) = \frac{1}{4} \|[X Y]\|^2$.
I'm wondering if the following (...
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