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Grassmann and flag varieties lead many lives in pure and applied mathematics. Here we focus on the algebraic complexity of solving various problems in linear algebra and statistics as optimization problems over these varieties. The measure…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Hannah Friedman , Serkan Hoşten

The purpose of this paper is to announce some new results on the structure of the higher order Euler-Lagrange mapping of the multiple-integral variational calculus on fibered manifolds,namely a description of its kernel and its image,and an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Demeter Krupka

The fundamental problem of the calculus of variations on time scales concerns the minimization of a delta-integral over all trajectories satisfying given boundary conditions. In this paper we prove the second Euler-Lagrange necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Zbigniew Bartosiewicz , Natalia Martins , Delfim F. M. Torres

This article presents some aspects and experience in the use of algebraic manipulation software applied to general relativity. Some years ago certain results were reported using computer algebra platforms, but the growing popularity of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Víctor Medina

The study of fractional variational problems in terms of a combined fractional Caputo derivative is introduced. Necessary optimality conditions of Euler-Lagrange type for the basic, isoperimetric, and Lagrange variational problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-16 Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

We give a proper fractional extension of the classical calculus of variations by considering variational functionals with a Lagrangian depending on a combined Caputo fractional derivative and the classical derivative. Euler-Lagrange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Tatiana Odzijewicz , Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

We study more general variational problems on time scales. Previous results are generalized by proving necessary optimality conditions for (i) variational problems involving delta derivatives of more than the first order, and (ii) problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Rui A. C. Ferreira , Delfim F. M. Torres

We prove a necessary optimality condition of Euler-Lagrange type for variational problems on time scales involving nabla derivatives of higher-order. The proof is done using a new and more general fundamental lemma of the calculus of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Natalia Martins , Delfim F. M. Torres

Marginal MAP problems are notoriously difficult tasks for graphical models. We derive a general variational framework for solving marginal MAP problems, in which we apply analogues of the Bethe, tree-reweighted, and mean field…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Qiang Liu , Alexander T. Ihler

The context of this work is the design of a software, called MEMSALab, dedicated to the automatic derivation of multiscale models of arrays of micro- and nanosystems. In this domain a model is a partial differential equation. Multiscale…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Walid Belkhir , Alain Giorgetti , Michel Lenczner

In this paper, we present our ongoing work and initial results on the formal specification and verification of MiniMaple (a substantial subset of Maple with slight extensions) programs. The main goal of our work is to find behavioral errors…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-07-11 Muhammad Taimoor Khan , Wolfgang Schreiner

The problem of minimizing an integral functional of a vector-valued Lagrangian on a set of admissible arcs with given endpoints is considered. The problem is tackled by embedding it into a set-optimization problem such that the image space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 D. Visetti , F. Heyde

Whereas in a coordinate-dependent setting the Euler-Lagrange equations establish necessary conditions for solving variational problems in which both the integrands of functionals and the resulting paths are assumed to be sufficiently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Gregory S. Chirikjian

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) is an important tool within computational real algebraic geometry, capable of solving many problems for polynomial systems over the reals. It has long been studied by the Symbolic Computation…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Alexander Imani Cowen-Rivers , Matthew England

Nonclassical symmetries and reductions of polynomial equations and systems of polynomial equations are considered. It is shown that specific polynomial equations having "hidden" symmetries can be reduced to classical symmetric systems of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Inna K. Shingareva , Andrei D. Polyanin

Fractional operators play an important role in modeling nonlocal phenomena and problems involving coarse-grained and fractal spaces. The fractional calculus of variations with functionals depending on derivatives and/or integrals of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Matheus J. Lazo , Delfim F. M. Torres

We prove Euler-Lagrange fractional equations and sufficient optimality conditions for problems of the calculus of variations with functionals containing both fractional derivatives and fractional integrals in the sense of Riemann-Liouville.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-02 Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this article we consider a method for proving a class of analytical inequalities via minimax rational approximations. All numerical calculations in this paper are given by Maple computer program.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Branko J. Malesevic

This paper is an example-based demonstration of our initial results on the formal specification of programs written in the computer algebra language MiniMaple (a substantial subset of Maple with slight extensions). The main goal of this…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-07-11 Muhammad Taimoor Khan , Wolfgang Schreiner

A method of numerically solving the Maxwell equations is considered for modeling harmonic electromagnetic fields. The vector finite element method makes it possible to obtain a physically consistent discretization of the differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Andrew V. Terekhov