从点云数据直接构建微分形式上的扩散过程,实现几何偏微分方程的高效数值求解。
Data-Driven Diffusion Processes on Differential Forms via the Projected Ambient Connection Laplacian

- 将微分形式表示为交替微分数组,构造矩阵型扩散算子。
- 在单位球上验证了热方程解的衰减规律,收敛性优于已有方法。
- 适用于无网格点云数据,适合几何学习与科学计算领域研究者。
我们提出一种基于点云数据的投影环境连接拉普拉斯算子在微分形式上的数据驱动近似方法。该方法将经典扩散映射和向量扩散映射从标量函数与切向量场推广至任意阶微分形式。核心思想是通过扩展经典音乐同构,将微分形式表示为交替微分数组,从而直接从点云构造矩阵值扩散算子,无需网格或单纯复形。该离散化继承了扩散映射的渐近最优核带宽缩放,比以往的数据驱动霍奇拉普拉斯近似具有更优的收敛保证。在此基础上,我们推导出微分形式热方程的全数据驱动显式欧拉格式,并在单位球上进行数值实验,验证了解析解的预期衰减行为,证明了所提离散化的有效性。该框架自然推广了向量扩散映射至任意阶微分形式,为从点云数据直接数值逼近几何偏微分方程提供了实用基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We develop a data-driven approximation of the projected ambient connection Laplacian acting on differential forms over smooth Riemannian manifolds sampled by point clouds. The proposed construction extends the classical framework of diffusion maps and Vector Diffusion Maps from scalar functions and tangent vector fields to differential forms of arbitrary degree. Our approach is based on a novel representation of differential forms as alternating differential arrays obtained through an extension of the classical musical isomorphism. This representation enables the construction of a matrix-valued diffusion operator that approximates the projected ambient connection Laplacian directly from point cloud data without requiring a mesh or simplicial complex. The proposed discretization admits the asymptotically optimal kernel bandwidth scaling inherited from diffusion maps, leading to sharper convergence guarantees than previous data-driven approximations of the Hodge Laplacian. Building upon this operator, we derive a fully data-driven explicit Euler scheme for the heat equation on differential forms and validate the proposed methodology through numerical experiments on the unit sphere. The experiments confirm the predicted decay of the analytical solution and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed discretization. The proposed framework provides a natural generalization of Vector Diffusion Maps to differential forms of arbitrary degree and establishes a practical foundation for the numerical approximation of geometric partial differential equations directly from point cloud data.
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