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One of the most popular approaches for solving total variation-regularized optimization problems in the space of measures are Particle Gradient Flows (PGFs). These restrict the problem to linear combinations of Dirac deltas and then perform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Christian Amend , Marcello Carioni , Konstantinos Zemas

This paper presents new geometric aspects of the behaviors of solutions to the porous medium equation (PME) and its associated equation. First we discuss the Legendre structure with information geometry on the manifold of generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-16 Atsumi Ohara , Tatsuaki Wada

Recovering unbiased kinetic and thermodynamic observables from the enhanced sampling simulations is a central challenge in rare-event sampling. Classical Girsanov Reweighting (GR) offers a principled solution by yielding exact pathwise…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-21 Yan Wang , Hao Wu , Simon Olsson

Reformulation of the Dirac equation in terms of the real Spacetime Algebra (STA) reveals hidden geometric structure, including a geometric role for the unit imaginary as generator of rotations in a spacelike plane. The STA and the real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 David Hestenes

We test Laplacian-level meta-generalized gradient approximation (meta-GGA) non-interacting kinetic energy functionals based on the fourth-order gradient expansion (GE4). We consider several well known Laplacian-level meta-GGAs from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 S. Laricchia , L. A. Constantin , E. Fabiano , F. Della Sala

The Pauli kinetic energy enhancement factor $\alpha=(\tau-\tau^W)/\tau^{unif}$ is an important density ingredient, used to construct many meta-generalized gradient approximations (meta-GGA) exchange-correlation (XC) energy functionals,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-07 Subrata Jana , Sushant Kumar Behera , Szymon Smiga , Lucian A. Constantin , Prasanjit Samal

The strong-interaction functionals $W_\infty[n]$ and ${W'}_\infty[n]$ play an important role in the adiabatic-connection method of Density Functional Theory. The strictly-correlated electron approach can be used to exactly compute these…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-09 L. A. Constantin , F. Naeem , 3 E. Fabiano , F. Sarcinella , F. Della Sala

We consider the variational formulation of the electric field integral equation on a Lipschitz polyhedral surface $\Gamma$. We study the Galerkin boundary element discretisations based on the lowest-order Raviart-Thomas surface elements on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Alex Bespalov , Serge Nicaise

We prove global well-posedness for some molecular beam epitaxy models. This requires proving some bounds on the gradient of solutions. We also obtain some global bounds on the roughness of solutions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Daniel Oliveira da Silva , Magzhan Biyar

Convenient variational formula for collective diffusion of many particles adsorbed at lattices of arbitrary geometry is formulated. The approach allows to find the expressions for the diffusion coefficient for any value of the system's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-04 Marcin Mińkowski , Magdalena A. Załuska--Kotur

In this paper, the generalized finite element method (GFEM) for solving second order elliptic equations with rough coefficients is studied. New optimal local approximation spaces for GFEMs based on local eigenvalue problems involving a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Chupeng Ma , Robert Scheichl , Tim Dodwell

The Pb/Si(111) thin films were simulated within the density functional theory (DFT). The well-known Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE) version of the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) and its recent nonempirical successor Wu-Cohen (WC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-23 M. Rafiee , S. Jalali Asadabadi

Motivated by obtaining a consistent mathematical description for the radiation reaction of point charged particles in linear classical electrodynamics, a theory of generalized higher order tensors and differential forms is introduced. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-20 Ricardo Gallego Torromé

Various types of parameter restart schemes have been proposed for accelerated gradient algorithms to facilitate their practical convergence in convex optimization. However, the convergence properties of accelerated gradient algorithms under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Yi Zhou , Zhe Wang , Kaiyi Ji , Yingbin Liang , Vahid Tarokh

Variance-reduced stochastic gradient methods have gained popularity in recent times. Several variants exist with different strategies for the storing and sampling of gradients and this work concerns the interactions between these two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Martin Morin , Pontus Giselsson

The generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution is commonly employed to help estimate the likelihood of extreme events in many geophysical and other application areas. The recently proposed blended generalized extreme value (bGEV)…

Applications · Statistics 2024-10-10 Nir Y. Krakauer

The electric field integral equation is a well known workhorse for obtaining fields scattered by a perfect electric conducting (PEC) object. As a result, the nuances and challenges of solving this equation have been examined for a while.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Xin Fu , Jie Li , Li Jun Jiang , Balasubramaniam Shanker

In this contribution we assess the performance of two different exchange-correlation functionals in the first-principle prediction of the lattice thermal conductivity of bulk semiconductors, namely the local density approximation (LDA) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-16 Marco Arrigoni , Georg K. H. Madsen

In this talk I review various notions of generalised global symmetry: higher-form, higher-group, and non-invertible symmetry. All these notions have had profound impact on quantum field theory research in the last decade. I highlight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-09 Joe Davighi

The structure and dynamics of a molecular system is governed by its potential energy surface (PES), representing the total energy as a function of the nuclear coordinates. Obtaining accurate potential energy surfaces is limited by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Karl P. Horn , Luis Itza Vazquez-Salazar , Christiane P. Koch , Markus Meuwly