Comment by srean

13 hours ago

Let's assume that monotonocity of pair-wise distances are preserved.

Without knowing the details of how the paper solved the problem, my first attempt would be to find the diametrically distant pair of points in the two different embeddings and assume that the pair is the same pair. Then find the next distant pairs and so on.

After sufficiently many such pairs have been found, or better still, the largest d-simplex is found, find that scaled rigid body transformation that makes the corresponding pairs coincide. Proceeding this way ought to be less work than solving a generic graph isomorphism problem.

I think a less stringent, but still workable assumption is that for very similair objects, their distances will be small. This is much easier to accomplish than agreement across all pairs.

  • Could you explain a bit more. What you say about similar objects is obviously true. However the algorithm sketch that you have in your mind is a little implicit. Could you make it more explicit. I am quite curious.

    I explained my thoughts in a comment here

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49595424