Long-time diffusion mean conjecture for compact symmetric spaces

Let MM be a connected compact symmetric space with a smooth isometric embedding into a Euclidean space that is unique up to Euclidean isometries. Let the diffusion mean set be the set of diffusion means at diffusion time tt, and let the extrinsic mean set be the mean set defined using the chordal distance induced by the embedding. Long-time diffusion mean conjecture. As tt\to\infty, the diffusion mean set converges to the extrinsic mean set in this isometric embedding in the sense of the upper and lower Kuratowski limits. The conjecture extends the known long-time result for circles and spheres and is motivated here by the corresponding result for real projective spaces; it remains open for general connected compact symmetric spaces.

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Till Düsberg and Benjamin Eltzner, “The Long Time Limit of Diffusion Means”, arXiv:2411.01888 (2024).

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