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The maximum entropy principle is a powerful tool for solving underdetermined inverse problems. This paper considers the problem of discretizing a continuous distribution, which arises in various applied fields. We obtain the approximating…

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In the first part of the paper we study absolute error of sampling discretization of the integral $L_p$-norm for function classes of continuous functions. We use basic approaches from chaining technique to provide general upper bounds for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-12 E. D. Kosov , V. N. Temlyakov

A method is presented for calculating the Lie point symmetries of a scalar difference equation on a two-dimensional lattice. The symmetry transformations act on the equations and on the lattice. They take solutions into solutions and can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-10 Decio Levi , Sébastien Tremblay , Pavel Winternitz

In this paper, we derive a useful lower bound for the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KL-divergence) based on the Hammersley-Chapman-Robbins bound (HCRB). The HCRB states that the variance of an estimator is bounded from below by the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Tomohiro Nishiyama

We consider linear regression problems with a varying number of random projections, where we provably exhibit a double descent curve for a fixed prediction problem, with a high-dimensional analysis based on random matrix theory. We first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Francis Bach

We establish sharp non-asymptotic probabilistic bounds for the star discrepancy of double-infinite random matrices -- a canonical model for sequences of random point sets in high dimensions. By integrating the recently proved…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Xiaoda Xu , Jun Xian

In this paper we show that the spherical cap discrepancy of the point set given by centers of pixels in the HEALPix tessellation (short for Hierarchical, Equal Area and iso-Latitude Pixelation) of unit $2$-sphere is lower and upper bounded…

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We study the optimal design problem under second-order least squares estimation which is known to outperform ordinary least squares estimation when the error distribution is asymmetric. First, a general approximate theory is developed,…

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The most general form of a marginal extended perturbation in a two-dimensional system is deduced from scaling considerations. It includes as particular cases extended perturbations decaying either from a surface, a line or a point for which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Turban , B. Berche

We show that the isotropic discrepancy of a lattice point set can be bounded from below and from above in terms of the spectral test of the corresponding integration lattice. From this we deduce that the isotropic discrepancy of any…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Friedrich Pillichshammer , Mathias Sonnleitner

Arrangements of lines and pseudolines are fundamental objects in discrete and computational geometry. They also appear in other areas of computer science, such as the study of sorting networks. Let $B_n$ be the number of nonisomorphic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Adrian Dumitrescu , Ritankar Mandal

We obtain lower bounds of the correct order of magnitude for the 2k-th moment of the Riemann zeta function for all k > 1. Previously such lower bounds were known only for rational values of k, with the bounds depending on the height of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Maksym Radziwill , Kannan Soundararajan

We study the $L^{\infty}$ discrepancy of point sets generated by determinantal point processes on all compact, connected two-point homogeneous spaces, namely spheres and projective spaces. Using concentration inequalities and variance…

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We study the multivariate nonparametric change point detection problem, where the data are a sequence of independent $p$-dimensional random vectors whose distributions are piecewise-constant with Lipschitz densities changing at unknown…

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We present a general approach to the problem of determining tight asymptotic lower bounds for generalized central moments of the optimal alignment score of two independent sequences of i.i.d. random variables. At first, these are obtained…

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Thepaperprovesconvergenceofone-levelandmultilevelunsymmetriccollocationforsecondorderelliptic boundary value problems on the bounded domains. By using Schaback's linear discretization theory,L2 errors are obtained based on the kernel-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Zhiyong Liu , Qiuyan Xu

Steinerberger introduced the Buffon discrepancy problem, asking how accurately a one-dimensional set of length $L$ in a convex body can match the Crofton-predicted line-intersection counts, and proved an $O\left(L^{1/3}\right)$ upper bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Samuel Korsky

We propose an algorithm to numerically determined whether a second-order linear PDE problem satisfying a Garding inequality is well-posed. This algorithm further provides a lower bound to the inf-sup constant of the weak formulation, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 T. Chaumont-Frelet

In this paper the problem of retrospective change-point detection and estimation in multivariate linear models is considered. The lower bounds for the error of change-point estimation are proved in different cases (one change-point:…

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