Embedding in space forms

  • Authors:
  • David A. Johannsen;Jeffrey L. Solka

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Multivariate Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The goal of this paper is to give explicit procedures and equations for performing metric multidimensional scaling to surfaces. More specifically, we describe a method for determining a configuration of points in a closed and orientable surface (i.e., the MDS space) for which the interpoint distances closely approximate a given set of dissimilarities. More generally, these constant sectional curvature surfaces are examples of space forms (spaces which are quotients of Euclidean, spherical, or hyperbolic space by a subgroup of the isometry group of the space). We will cast our work in this language, thereby allowing the theory to easily be generalized to higher dimensions.