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Spherical Geometry
Operations on the n-sphere S^n = {x ∈ R^{n+1} : ||x|| = 1}
§Use Cases in Vector Search
- Cyclical patterns: Time-of-day, day-of-week, seasonal data
- Directional data: Wind directions, compass bearings
- Normalized embeddings: Common in NLP (unit-normalized word vectors)
- Angular similarity: Natural for cosine similarity
§Key Operations
- Geodesic distance: d(x, y) = arccos(⟨x, y⟩)
- Exponential map: Move from x in direction v
- Logarithmic map: Find direction from x to y
- Fréchet mean: Spherical centroid
Structs§
- Spherical
Config - Configuration for spherical operations
- Spherical
Space - Spherical space operations