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In this article, we derive a theoretical formalism that unifies the rigorous coupled wave analysis and the dynamical diffraction theory. Based on this formalism, we design a computational approach for the diffraction calculation for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 K. V. Nikolaev , V. Soltwisch , M. A. Botchev , A. Fernández Herrero , P. Hönicke , F. Scholze , S. N. Yakunin

In this paper we study the problem of finding the best approximation of a real square matrix by a matrix that can be represented as the square of a real, skew-symmetric matrix. This problem is important in the design of robust numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Yang Wan , Benjamin E. Grossman-Ponemona , Haneesh Kesari

Parallel transport is a fundamental tool to perform statistics on Rie-mannian manifolds. Since closed formulae don't exist in general, practitioners often have to resort to numerical schemes. Ladder methods are a popular class of algorithms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Nicolas Guigui , Xavier Pennec

A fast algorithm (linear in the degrees of freedom) for the solution of linear variable-coefficient rational-order fractional integral and differential equations is described. The approach is related to the ultraspherical method for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Nicholas Hale , Sheehan Olver

Nonuniform Fourier data are routinely collected in applications such as magnetic resonance imaging, synthetic aperture radar, and synthetic imaging in radio astronomy. To acquire a fast reconstruction that does not require an online inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Anne Gelb , Guohui Song

It is known that every real orthogonal matrix can be brought into the domain of the Cayley transform by multiplication with a suitable diagonal signature matrix. In this paper we provide a constructive and numerically efficient algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Iwo Biborski

The discrete prolate spheroidal sequences (DPSS's) provide an efficient representation for discrete signals that are perfectly timelimited and nearly bandlimited. Due to the high computational complexity of projecting onto the DPSS basis -…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-14 Santhosh Karnik , Zhihui Zhu , Michael B. Wakin , Justin Romberg , Mark A. Davenport

We derive an expression that allows for the unambiguous evaluation of the overlap between two arbitrary quasiparticle vacua, including its sign. Our expression is based on the Pfaffian of a skew-symmetric matrix, extending the formula…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-22 Benoît Avez , Michael Bender

Matrix-valued optimization tasks, including those involving symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices, arise in a wide range of applications in machine learning, data science and statistics. Classically, such problems are solved via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Andrew Cheng , Melanie Weber

The enumeration of diagonally symmetric alternating sign matrices (DSASMs) is studied, and a Pfaffian formula is obtained for the number of DSASMs of any fixed size, where the entries for the Pfaffian are positive integers given by simple…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Roger E. Behrend , Ilse Fischer , Christoph Koutschan

We present a Pfaffian formula to calculate matrix elements of three-body operators in symmetry-restoration beyond-mean-field methods, including the case of multiple quasi-particle configurations. Detailed derivation based on [Mizusaki et…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Zi-Rui Chen , Long-Jun Wang

We derive a canonical form for skew-symmetric endomorphisms $F$ in Lorentzian vector spaces of dimension three and four which covers all non-trivial cases at once. We analyze its invariance group, as well as the connection of this canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Marc Mars , Carlos Peón-Nieto

We show that the Riemannian Gaussian distributions on symmetric spaces, introduced in recent years, are of standard random matrix type. We exploit this to compute analytically marginals of the probability density functions. This can be done…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Leonardo Santilli , Miguel Tierz

A computation scheme for solving elliptic boundary value problems with axially symmetric confining potentials using different sets of one-parameter basis functions is presented. The efficiency of the proposed symbolic-numerical algorithms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. A. Gusev , O. Chuluunbaatar , V. P. Gerdt , V. A. Rostovtsev , S. I. Vinitsky , V. L. Derbov , V. V. Serov

In this paper we focus on the solution of shifted quasiseparable systems and of more general parameter dependent matrix equations with quasiseparable representations. We propose an efficient algorithm exploiting the invariance of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-07 Paola Boito , Yuli Eidelman , Luca Gemignani

The product of a complex skew-symmetric matrix and its conjugate transpose is a positive semi-definite Hermitian matrix with nonnegative eigenvalues, with a property that each distinct positive eigenvalue has even multiplicity. This…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Liqun Qi , Ziyan Luo

This paper is triggered by the preprint "\emph{Computing Matrix Squareroot via Non Convex Local Search}" by Jain et al. (\textit{\textcolor{blue}{arXiv:1507.05854}}), which analyzes gradient-descent for computing the square root of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-17 Suvrit Sra

We review the ideas of how random matrix theory has to be properly applied to quantum physics; particularly we focus on how the spectrum has to be properly prepared and the random matrix correctly identified before the random matrix and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Mario Kieburg

The Schrieffer-Wolff transformation aims to solve degenerate perturbation problems and give an effective Hamiltonian that describes the low-energy dynamics of the exact Hamiltonian in the low-energy subspace of unperturbed Hamiltonian. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Zongkang Zhang , Yongdan Yang , Xiaosi Xu , Ying Li

The power method is a basic method for computing the dominant eigenpair of a matrix. In this paper, we propose a structure-preserving power-like method for computing the dominant conjugate pair of purely imaginary eigenvalues and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Qingqing Zheng