Published October 24, 2025 | Version 1.0
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Software Framework for Intrinsic Curve Interpolation in the 4D Hypersphere Using Stereographic Projection

Description

This Mathematica notebook implements a symbolic and geometric software framework for constructing and interpolating curves intrinsically embedded in the four-dimensional hypersphere (S³) using stereographic projection and its inverse. The framework addresses the challenge of preserving hyperspherical constraints during interpolation by projecting curve data to the three-dimensional hyperplane, performing classical Lagrange interpolation in Euclidean space, and lifting the result back to S³ through an exact inverse mapping. This approach ensures that interpolated curves remain entirely intrinsic to the hypersphere, avoiding deviations that occur in direct 4D Euclidean interpolation.

Key features include:
- Exact symbolic implementations of 4D stereographic projection and inverse projection
- Lagrange interpolation routines for curves and tensor-product surfaces  
- Visualization tools based on fixed immersions from 4D to 3D
- Modular architecture allowing replacement of interpolation schemes
- Validation of hyperspherical constraints at every step

The software provides explicit symbolic implementations for projection, inverse projection, and interpolation procedures, along with visualization tools suitable for high-dimensional geometric modeling, theoretical physics, and computational differential geometry applications. All computations yield exact analytic expressions, enabling further theoretical analysis or adaptation to other manifolds.

Keywords: stereographic projection, hypersphere, 4D geometry, Lagrange interpolation, symbolic computation, Mathematica, geometric modeling, computational geometry, differential geometry, higher-dimensional interpolation

License: MIT

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Programming language
Mathematica
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