Global geometry of regions and boundaries via skeletal and medial integrals
Global geometry of regions and boundaries via skeletal and medial integrals
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通过骨骼和内侧积分实现区域和边界的全局几何形状
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2007
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J. Damon
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J. Damon
For a compact region Ω in Rn+1 with smooth generic boundary B, the Blum medial axis M is the locus of centers of spheres in Ω which are tangent to B at two or more points. The geometry of Ω is encoded by M , which is a Whitney-stratified set, and U , the multivalued vector field from points on M to the points of tangency. We give general formulas for integrals of functions over B or Ω in terms of integrals over M . These integral formulas involve a radial shape operator which captures the radial geometry of U on M , an intrinsic medial measure on M , and a radial flow from M to B. For integrals over Ω, the formulas remain valid when we relax the conditions on (M, U), yielding a more general skeletal structure. These integral formulas are applied to yield: an extension of Weyl’s volume of tubes formula where we replace tubes by general regions; a medial version of the generalized Gauss– Bonnet formula for B, valid even for odd-dimensional B; versions of Crofton-type formulas and Steiner formulas for subregions of Ω and a version of the divergence theorem over subregions in Ω for vector fields with discontinuities across the medial axis. This last result leads to a justification of an algorithm for finding the medial axis, using an invariant equivalent to a local medial density for singularities introduced elsewhere.