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Metamorphosis

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Shapes and Diffeomorphisms

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This chapter introduces metamorphoses, which refer to Riemannian metrics based on transformations in which objects can change under the action of diffeomorphisms (or other transformation groups) but also under independent variations, allowing for more flexibility in the evolution.

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Younes, L. (2019). Metamorphosis. In: Shapes and Diffeomorphisms. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 171. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58496-5_12

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