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Natural Pseudodistance
In size theory, the natural pseudodistance between two size pairs (M,\varphi:M\to \mathbb)\ , (N,\psi:N\to \mathbb)\ is the value \inf_h \, \varphi-\psi\circ h\, _\infty\ , where h\ varies in the set of all homeomorphisms from the manifold M\ to the manifold N\ and \, \cdot\, _\infty\ is the supremum norm. If M\ and N\ are not homeomorphic, then the natural pseudodistance is defined to be \infty\ . It is usually assumed that M\ , N\ are C^1\ closed manifolds and the measuring functions \varphi,\psi\ are C^1\ . Put another way, the natural pseudodistance measures the infimum of the change of the measuring function induced by the homeomorphisms from M\ to N\ . The concept of natural pseudodistance can be easily extended to size pairs where the measuring function \varphi\ takes values in \mathbb^m\ .Patrizio Frosini, Michele Mulazzani, ''Size homotopy groups for computation of natural size distances'', Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society, 6:455-464, 1999. Whe ...
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Size Theory
In mathematics, size theory studies the properties of topological spaces endowed with \mathbb^k-valued functions, with respect to the change of these functions. More formally, the subject of size theory is the study of the natural pseudodistance between size pairs. A survey of size theory can be found in .Silvia Biasotti, Leila De Floriani, Bianca Falcidieno, Patrizio Frosini, Daniela Giorgi, Claudia Landi, Laura Papaleo, Michela Spagnuolo, Describing shapes by geometrical-topological properties of real functions, ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 40 (2008), n. 4, 12:1–12:87. History and applications The beginning of size theory is rooted in the concept of size function, introduced by Frosini.Patrizio Frosini, ''A distance for similarity classes of submanifolds of a Euclidean space'', Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 42(3):407–416, 1990. Size functions have been initially used as a mathematical tool for shape comparison in computer vision and pattern reco ...
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Size Pair
In mathematics, size theory studies the properties of topological spaces endowed with \mathbb^k-valued functions, with respect to the change of these functions. More formally, the subject of size theory is the study of the natural pseudodistance between size pairs. A survey of size theory can be found in .Silvia Biasotti, Leila De Floriani, Bianca Falcidieno, Patrizio Frosini, Daniela Giorgi, Claudia Landi, Laura Papaleo, Michela Spagnuolo, Describing shapes by geometrical-topological properties of real functions, ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 40 (2008), n. 4, 12:1–12:87. History and applications The beginning of size theory is rooted in the concept of size function, introduced by Frosini.Patrizio Frosini, ''A distance for similarity classes of submanifolds of a Euclidean space'', Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 42(3):407–416, 1990. Size functions have been initially used as a mathematical tool for shape comparison in computer vision and pattern reco ...
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Homeomorphism
In the mathematical field of topology, a homeomorphism, topological isomorphism, or bicontinuous function is a bijective and continuous function between topological spaces that has a continuous inverse function. Homeomorphisms are the isomorphisms in the category of topological spaces—that is, they are the mappings that preserve all the topological properties of a given space. Two spaces with a homeomorphism between them are called homeomorphic, and from a topological viewpoint they are the same. The word ''homeomorphism'' comes from the Greek words '' ὅμοιος'' (''homoios'') = similar or same and '' μορφή'' (''morphē'') = shape or form, introduced to mathematics by Henri Poincaré in 1895. Very roughly speaking, a topological space is a geometric object, and the homeomorphism is a continuous stretching and bending of the object into a new shape. Thus, a square and a circle are homeomorphic to each other, but a sphere and a torus are not. However, this desc ...
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Supremum Norm
In mathematical analysis, the uniform norm (or ) assigns to real- or complex-valued bounded functions defined on a set the non-negative number :\, f\, _\infty = \, f\, _ = \sup\left\. This norm is also called the , the , the , or, when the supremum is in fact the maximum, the . The name "uniform norm" derives from the fact that a sequence of functions converges to under the metric derived from the uniform norm if and only if converges to uniformly. If is a continuous function on a closed and bounded interval, or more generally a compact set, then it is bounded and the supremum in the above definition is attained by the Weierstrass extreme value theorem, so we can replace the supremum by the maximum. In this case, the norm is also called the . In particular, if is some vector such that x = \left(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n\right) in finite dimensional coordinate space, it takes the form: :\, x\, _\infty := \max \left(\left, x_1\ , \ldots , \left, x_n\\right). Metric and ...
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Closed Manifold
In mathematics, a closed manifold is a manifold without boundary that is compact. In comparison, an open manifold is a manifold without boundary that has only ''non-compact'' components. Examples The only connected one-dimensional example is a circle. The sphere, torus, and the Klein bottle are all closed two-dimensional manifolds. A line is not closed because it is not compact. A closed disk is a compact two-dimensional manifold, but it is not closed because it has a boundary. Open manifolds For a connected manifold, "open" is equivalent to "without boundary and non-compact", but for a disconnected manifold, open is stronger. For instance, the disjoint union of a circle and a line is non-compact since a line is non-compact, but this is not an open manifold since the circle (one of its components) is compact. Abuse of language Most books generally define a manifold as a space that is, locally, homeomorphic to Euclidean space (along with some other technical con ...
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Measuring Function
Size functions are shape descriptors, in a geometrical/topological sense. They are functions from the half-plane x to the natural numbers, counting certain Connected component (topology), connected components of a topological space. They are used in pattern recognition and topology.


Formal definition

In size theory, the size function \ell_:\Delta^+=\\to \mathbb associated with the size pair (M,\varphi:M\to \mathbb) is defined in the following way. For every (x,y)\in \Delta^+, \ell_(x,y) is equal to the number of connected components of the set \ that contain at least one point at which the measuring function (a continuous function from a topological space M to \mathbb^k Patrizio Frosini and Claudia Landi, ''Size Theory as a Topological Tool for Computer Vision'', Pattern Recognition And Image Analysis, 9(4):596–603, 1999.
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Bulletin Of The Belgian Mathematical Society
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Discrete & Computational Geometry
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Mathematical Methods In The Applied Sciences
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics with the major subdisciplines of number theory, algebra, geometry, and analysis, respectively. There is no general consensus among mathematicians about a common definition for their academic discipline. Most mathematical activity involves the discovery of properties of abstract objects and the use of pure reason to prove them. These objects consist of either abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicsentities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. A ''proof'' consists of a succession of applications of deductive rules to already established results. These results include previously proved theorems, axioms, andin case of abstraction from naturesome basic properties that are considered true starting poi ...
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