Minkowski sums with convex curves without pointwise Fourier decay

arXiv:2608.28770 2026 Geometry 1 ideas extracted · analyzed Sep 1, 2026

What the math gives to ML

The paper gives a physical-space overlap estimate for tubular neighborhoods of uniformly curved curves, without requiring Fourier decay. The transferable asset is the explicit inverse-distance bound on translated tube intersections, which converts curvature into a measurable anti-overlap and coverage principle. A practical neural adaptation is to learn a curved latent augmentation manifold and regularize its translated copies so that they cover feature space without excessive collapse; the theorem supplies the target scaling and curvature constraint. This is a moderate-risk idea because the positive-measure Minkowski-sum guarantee is planar and geometric, so experiments should first test whether the overlap-derived regularizer improves latent coverage and robustness.

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Curved latent coverage regularizer

Add a learnable curved augmentation trace to latent features and penalize excessive overlap between its translated tubular neighborhoods. The regularizer uses the paper's curvature-driven bound as a scale-dependent target: nearby translations may overlap at order delta, while translations at distance r should overlap only at order delta squared divided by r. This encourages feature perturbations to form a non-flat, coverage-efficient manifold rather than collapsing onto a line or a small set of…

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Paper: Minkowski sums with convex curves without pointwise Fourier decay arXiv:2608.28770