Inverse Hessian Curvature Flow in Minkowski Space II: The Dirichlet problem at infinity

arXiv:2608.20037 2026 Geometry 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper formulates a geometric self-shrinker as a fully nonlinear elliptic equation on hyperbolic space, using the eigenvalues of the shifted Hessian \(\nabla^2v-vg\). Its transferable asset is a differentiable curvature-cone constraint combined with a scale-normalized symmetric-polynomial residual and boundary conditioning at infinity. This can become a hyperbolic neural-field loss that encourages structured, convex latent representations and stable extrapolation rather than unconstrained interpolation. The most direct test is a small physics-informed or implicit-representation model trained on the hyperbolic Dirichlet residual and compared with Euclidean Hessian regularization.

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Hyperbolic curvature-cone neural field

Add a geometric loss to a neural scalar field on hyperbolic latent coordinates, requiring the shifted Hessian \(\nabla^2v-vg\) to remain positive definite while matching the self-shrinker curvature equation. A boundary trace on a finite approximation of the ideal boundary conditions the solution, encouraging a canonical hyperbolically convex extension instead of arbitrary interpolation.

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Paper: Inverse Hessian Curvature Flow in Minkowski Space II: The Dirichlet problem at infinity arXiv:2608.20037