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Singular and oscillatory functions feature in numerous applications. The high-accuracy approximation of such functions shall greatly help us develop high-order methods for solving applied mathematics problems. This paper demonstrates that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Congpei An , Hao-Ning Wu

This article improves on existing methods to estimate the spectral density of stationary and nonstationary time series assuming a Gaussian process prior. By optimising an appropriate eigendecomposition using a smoothing spline covariance…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-01 Nick James , Max Menzies

A useful approach for analysing multiple time series is via characterising their spectral density matrix as the frequency domain analog of the covariance matrix. When the dimension of the time series is large compared to their length,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Mark Fiecas , Chenlei Leng , Weidong Liu , Yi Yu

In genetical genomics studies, it is important to jointly analyze gene expression data and genetic variants in exploring their associations with complex traits, where the dimensionality of gene expressions and genetic variants can both be…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-04-15 Wei Lin , Rui Feng , Hongzhe Li

For many physical quantities, theory supplies weak- and strong-coupling expansions of the types $\sum a_n \alpha ^n$ and $ \alpha ^p\sum b_n (\alpha^{-2/q) ^n$, respectively. Either or both of these may have a zero radius of convergence. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 H. Kleinert

Relying on recent advances in statistical estimation of covariance distances based on random matrix theory, this article proposes an improved covariance and precision matrix estimation for a wide family of metrics. The method is shown to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-03 Malik Tiomoko , Florent Bouchard , Guillaume Ginholac , Romain Couillet

To approximate solutions of a linear differential equation, we project, via trigonometric interpolation, its solution space onto a finite-dimensional space of trigonometric polynomials and construct a matrix representation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Oksana Bihun , Austin Bren , Michael Dyrud , Kristin Heysse

We develop a formal framework for the behavioral comparison of linear systems across different time domains. We accomplish this by introducing the notion of system interpolation, which determines whether the input-state trajectories of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Armin Pirastehzad , Bart Besselink

In order to solve an initial value problem by the variational iteration method, a sequence of functions is produced which converges to the solution under some suitable conditions. In the nonlinear case, after a few iterations the terms of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Davod Khojasteh Salkuyeh , Ali Tavakoli

This paper is concerned with applications of the theory of approximation and interpolation based on compensated convex transforms developed in [K. Zhang, E. Crooks, A. Orlando, Compensated convexity methods for approximations and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Kewei Zhang , Elaine Crooks , Antonio Orlando

The classical methods of multivariate analysis are based on the eigenvalues of one or two sample covariance matrices. In many applications of these methods, for example to high dimensional data, it is natural to consider alternative…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Iain M. Johnstone

To describe the pre- and post-selected quantum ensembles, a complex quantity called the weak value of an operator is used. The weak value is highly controversial due to the fact that it is not bounded by the possible eigenvalues of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-20 Aiham M. Rostom

One frequently needs to interpolate or approximate gradients on simplicial meshes. Unfortunately, there are very few explicit mathematical results governing the interpolation or approximation of vector-valued functions on Delaunay meshes in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 David M. Williams , Mathijs Wintraecken

It seems self-evident that a density functional calculation should be normalized to the number of electrons in the system. We present multiple examples where the accuracy of the approximate energy is improved (sometimes greatly) by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Adam Clay , Kiril Datchev , Wenlan Miao , Adam Wasserman , Kimberly J. Daas , Kieron Burke

The problem is addressed of defining the values of functions, whose variables tend to infinity, from the knowledge of these functions at asymptotically small variables close to zero. For this purpose, the extrapolation by means of different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-10-05 S. Gluzman , V. I. Yukalov

Traditional interpolation techniques for particle tracking include binning and convolutional formulas that use pre-determined (i.e., closed-form, parameteric) kernels. In many instances, the particles are introduced as point sources in time…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-05-05 David A Benson , Diogo Bolster , Stephen Pankavich , Michael J Schmidt

Robotic affordance estimation is challenging due to visual, geometric, and semantic ambiguities in sensory input. We propose a method that disambiguates these signals using two coupled recursive estimators for sub-aspects of affordances:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Patrick Lowin , Vito Mengers , Oliver Brock

We develop new methods for approximating conformal blocks as positive functions times polynomials, with applications to the numerical bootstrap. We argue that to obtain accurate bootstrap bounds, conformal block approximations should…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Cyuan-Han Chang , Vasiliy Dommes , Petr Kravchuk , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

Starting from finding approximate value of a function, introduces the measure of approximation-degree between two numerical values, proposes the concepts of "strict approximation" and "strict approximation region", then, derives the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Shiyou Lian

This paper concerns a spectral estimation problem in which we want to find a spectral density function that is consistent with estimated second-order statistics. It is an inverse problem admitting multiple solutions, and selection of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Bin Zhu