Variational time discretization of Riemannian splines

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRX077zbMATH Open1483.49017arXiv1711.06069OpenAlexW2962697233WikidataQ115274909 ScholiaQ115274909MaRDI QIDQ5113328FDOQ5113328

Martin Rumpf, Benedikt Wirth, Behrend Heeren

Publication date: 4 June 2020

Published in: IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a generalization of cubic splines to Riemannian manifolds. Spline curves are defined as minimizers of the spline energy - a combination of the Riemannian path energy and the time integral of the squared covariant derivative of the path velocity - under suitable interpolation conditions. A variational time discretization for the spline energy leads to a constrained optimization problem over discrete paths on the manifold. Existence of continuous and discrete spline curves is established using the direct method in the calculus of variations. Furthermore, the convergence of discrete spline paths to a continuous spline curve follows from the $Gamma$-convergence of the discrete to the continuous spline energy. Finally, selected example settings are discussed, including splines on embedded finite-dimensional manifolds, on a high-dimensional manifold of discrete shells with applications in surface processing, and on the infinite-dimensional shape manifold of viscous rods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06069

zbMATH Keywords

spline interpolationinfinite-dimensional Riemannian manifoldsvariational discretizationGamma-convergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spline approximation (41A15) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces) (65D17) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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