This paper deals with the iteration of algebraic functions, i.e. (in general) multivalued self maps of the Riemann sphere deened by z 7 ! w if P (z; w) = 0, where P is a polynomial in two complex variables. The notion of a hyperbolic repeller is introduced and illustrated by several examples. We prove that hyperbolic repellers are orbit stable under perturbations.

Many properties of a projective algebraic variety can be encoded by convex cones, such as the ample cone and the cone of curves. This is especially useful when these cones have only finitely many edges, as happens for Fano varieties. For a broader class of varieties which includes Calabi-Yau varieties and many rationally connected varieties, the Kawamata-Morrison cone conjecture predicts the st...

A hyperbolic algebraic curve is a bounded subset of an algebraic set. We study the function theory and functional analytic aspects of these sets. We show that their function theory can be described by finite codimensional subalgebras of the holomorphic functions on the desingularization. We show that classical analytic techniques, such as interpolation, can be used to answer geometric questions...

Investigating the Eulerian numbers and uniform B-spline recurrence relations, a connection between Eulerian numbers and B-spline values at knot points is proved, and a relation to inner products of uniform B-splines is shown. This connection allows, with few operations, to evaluate the B-spline curve at domain knots and could be utilized to obtain an easy approximation and representation of B-s...

Sliding motion is a challenge for deformable image registration because it leads to discontinuities in the sought deformation. In this paper, we present a method to handle sliding motion using multiple B-spline transforms. The proposed method decomposes the sought deformation into sliding regions to allow discontinuities at their interfaces, but prevents unrealistic solutions by forcing those i...

By a d-dimensional B-spline object (denoted as ), we mean a B-spline curve (d = 1), a B-spline surface (d = 2) or a B-spline volume (d = 3). By regularization of a B-spline object we mean the process of relocating the control points of such that they approximate an isometric map of its definition domain in certain directions and is shape preserving. In this paper we develop an efficient regul...

An algorithm is presented that constructs a C 2-continuous B-spline quaternion curve which interpolates a given sequence of unit quaternions on the rotation group SO(3). The de Casteljau type construction method of B-spline curves can be extended to generate B-spline quaternion curves Sch92]; however, the B-spline quaternion curves do not have C 2-continuity in SO(3). The authors KKS94a] recent...

Simple geometric proofs are given for the total positivity of the B-spline collocation matrix and the variation diminishing property of the B-spline representation of a spline.