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This paper studies the large fluctuations of solutions of finite--dimensional affine stochastic neutral functional differential equations with finite memory, as well as related nonlinear equations. We find conditions under which the exact…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-10 John A. D. Appleby , Huizhong Appleby-Wu , Xuerong Mao

Piecewise smooth systems are intensively studied today in many application areas, such as economics, finance, engineering, biology, and ecology. In this work, we consider a class of one-dimensional piecewise linear discontinuous maps with a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Laura Gardini , Davide Radi , Noemi Schmitt , Iryna Sushko , Frank Westerhoff

The dynamical behavior of switched affine systems is known to be more intricate than that of the well-studied switched linear systems, essentially due to the existence of distinct equilibrium points for each subsystem. First, under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Matteo Della Rossa , Lucas N. Egidio , Raphaël M. Jungers

Expectiles are statistical parameters which also provide a class of sublinear risk measures in finance. They are solutions of continuous optimization problems. The corresponding first order condition provides two different fixed point…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Thi Khanh Linh Ha , Andreas Heinrich Hamel , Daniel Kostner

We define a new average - termed the resolvent average - for positive semidefinite matrices. For positive definite matrices, the resolvent average enjoys self-duality and it interpolates between the harmonic and the arithmetic averages,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-10-21 Heinz H. Bauschke , Sarah M. Moffat , Xianfu Wang

Affine flows on vector bundles with chain transitive base flow are lifted to linear flows and the decomposition into exponentially separated subbundles provided by Selgrade's theorem is determined. The results are illustrated by an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Fritz Colonius , Alexandre J. Santana

In a financial market with a continuous price process and proportional transaction costs we investigate the problem of utility maximization of terminal wealth. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of a shadow price process,…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-05-06 Christoph Czichowsky , Walter Schachermayer , Junjian Yang

In affine models, both the martingale property of stochastic exponentials and non-explosion of affine processes is characterized in terms of minimality of solutions to a system of generalized Riccati differential equations. This is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Eberhard Mayerhofer

The problem of decomposing a given covariance matrix as the sum of a positive semi-definite matrix of given rank and a positive semi-definite diagonal matrix, is considered. We present a projection-type algorithm to address this problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Valentina Ciccone , Augusto Ferrante , Mattia Zorzi

This survey contains a selection of topics unified by the concept of positive semi-definiteness (of matrices or kernels), reflecting natural constraints imposed on discrete data (graphs or networks) or continuous objects (probability or…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Alexander Belton , Dominique Guillot , Apoorva Khare , Mihai Putinar

We investigate structural properties of the completely positive semidefinite cone $\mathcal{CS}_+^n$, consisting of all the $n \times n$ symmetric matrices that admit a Gram representation by positive semidefinite matrices of any size. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-11 Sabine Burgdorf , Monique Laurent , Teresa Piovesan

We survey some new progress on the pricing models driven by fractional Brownian motion \cb{or} mixed fractional Brownian motion. In particular, we give results on arbitrage opportunities, hedging, and option pricing in these models. We…

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In this note, simple proofs of certain well-known results involving the positive square root of positive matrices are given.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Mohamed Amine Aouichaoui , Mohammed Hichem Mortad

This is an expended and revised version of the preprint "Schematization of homotopy types". The purpose of this work is to introduce a notion of \emph{affine stacks}, which is a homotopy version of the notion of affine schemes, and to give…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 B. Toen

As machine learning increasingly influences critical domains such as credit underwriting, public policy, and talent acquisition, ensuring compliance with fairness constraints is both a legal and ethical imperative. This paper introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Léandre Eberhard , Nirek Sharma , Filipp Shelobolin , Aalok Ganesh Shanbhag

In this paper we derive a formula for a covariance matrix of any self-affine measure.

Probability · Mathematics 2013-12-04 K. Zajkowski

We consider the problem of estimating log-determinants of large, sparse, positive definite matrices. A key focus of our algorithm is to reduce computational cost, and it is based on sparse approximate inverses. The algorithm can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Owen Deen , Colton River Waller , John Paul Ward

In this paper we introduce a class of information-based models for the pricing of fixed-income securities. We consider a set of continuous- time information processes that describe the flow of information about market factors in a monetary…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2010-04-27 Lane P. Hughston , Andrea Macrina

We exhibit an explicit, deterministic algorithm for finding a canonical form for a positive definite matrix under unimodular integral transformations. We use characteristic sets of short vectors and partition-backtracking graph software.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Mathieu Dutour Sikirić , Anna Haensch , John Voight , Wessel P. J. van Woerden

In this note we describe a discrete dynamical system acting on the similarity classes of a plane convex body within the affine class of the body. We find invariant elements in all affine classes, and describe the orbits of bodies in some…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Gábor Domokos , Zsolt Lángi , Márk Mezei