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A theory is presented (and supported by numerical simulations) for phase-coherent reflection of light by a disordered medium which either absorbs or amplifies radiation. The distribution of reflection eigenvalues is shown to be the Laguerre…

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This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of reconstructing small and local perturbations of a planar surface using the field interaction between a known plasmonic particle and the planar surface. The aim is to perform a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Habib Ammari , Doo Sung Choi , Sanghyeon Yu

We study the existence and uniqueness of solutions of a nonlinear integro-differential problem which we reformulate introducing the notion of the decreasing rearrangement of the solution. A dimensional reduction of the problem is obtained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Gonzalo Galiano , Emanuele Schiavi , Julián Velasco

We consider the constrained Linear Inverse Problem (LIP), where a certain atomic norm (like the $\ell_1 $ norm) is minimized subject to a quadratic constraint. Typically, such cost functions are non-differentiable, which makes them not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Mohammed Rayyan Sheriff , Floor Fenne Redel , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

A theoretical approach to determine the optimal form of the near-field optical microscope probe is proposed. An analytical expression of the optimal probe form with subwavelength aperture has been obtained. The advantages of the probe with…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. Arslanov

The nonlinear conjugate gradient methods are known to be an effective approach for standard unconstrained optimization problems especially for large-scale problems. This paper proposes a proximal nonlinear conjugate gradient method, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Shodai Hamana , Yasushi Narushima

The elliptic Monge-Amp\`ere equation is a fully nonlinear Partial Differential Equation that originated in geometric surface theory and has been applied in dynamic meteorology, elasticity, geometric optics, image processing and image…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-06 Brittany D. Froese , Adam M. Oberman

We consider the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Monge--Amp\`ere equations with slow convergence rate at infinity and fulfill previous results under faster convergence rate by Bao--Li--Zhang [Calc. Var PDE. 52(2015). pp. 39-63].…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Zixiao Liu , Jiguang Bao

We obtain the characteristic equation for the nonlinear Born-Infeld electrodynamics. This equation has the form of the characteristic equation for the linear electrodynamics in some effective Riemann space. The effective metric include the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Alexander A. Chernitskii

We find that the electric field is not a suitable physical quantity to describe the response of a non-metallic material in the study of non-resonant near-field optics. In practice, we show the spin-less one-electron two-level system…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-31 Itsuki Banno , Motoichi Ohtsu

This work concerns estimation of multidimensional nonlinear regression models using multilayer perceptron (MLP). The main problem with such model is that we have to know the covariance matrix of the noise to get optimal estimator. however…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-22 Joseph Rynkiewicz

Non-convex optimization problems have multiple local optimal solutions. Non-convex optimization problems are commonly found in numerous applications. One of the methods recently proposed to efficiently explore multiple local optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Mohamed Tarek , Yijiang Huang

We consider a general class of elliptic equations on hypercomplex manifolds which includes the quaternionic Monge-Amp\`ere equation, the quaternionic Hessian equation and the Monge-Amp\`ere equation for quaternionic $(n-1)$-plurisubharmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Giovanni Gentili , Luigi Vezzoni

This paper describes a linear solution method for near-light photometric stereo by exploiting symmetric light source arrangements. Unlike conventional non-convex optimization approaches, by arranging multiple sets of symmetric nearby light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Lilika Makabe , Heng Guo , Hiroaki Santo , Fumio Okura , Yasuyuki Matsushita

The reflection spectrum of a probe light in a -type three-level atomic system coupled by an off-resonant standing-wave is investigated experimentally and theoretically. We show that the maximum value of reflection coefficient occurs when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-24 Hai-Tao Zhou , Miao-jun Guo , Da-Wei Wang , Jun-Xiang Zhang , Shi-Yao Zhu

Repeatedly solving the parameterized optimal mass transport (pOMT) problem is a frequent task in applications such as image registration and adaptive grid generation. It is thus critical to develop a highly efficient reduced solver that is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Shijin Hou , Yanlai Chen , Yinhua Xia

A complex Monge-Amp\`ere equation for differential $(p,p)$-forms is introduced on compact K\"ahler manifolds. For any $1 \leq p < n$, we show the existence of smooth solutions unique up to adding constants. For $p=1$, this corresponds to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Mathew George

We examine two multidimensional optimization problems that are formulated in terms of tropical mathematics. The problems are to minimize nonlinear objective functions, which are defined through the multiplicative conjugate vector…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Nikolai Krivulin , Karel Zimmermann

Graphene is known to possess strong optical nonlinearity. Its nonlinear response can be further enhanced by graphene plasmons. Here, we report a novel nonlinear electro-absorption effect observed in nanostructured graphene due to excitation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 D. Kundys , B. Van Duppen , O. P. Marshall , F. Rodriguez , I. Torre , A. Tomadin , M. Polini , A. N. Grigorenko

This paper studies the near field refraction problem with loss of energy in negative refractive index material. Based on the relative refractive index $\kappa$, the analysis is categorized into two cases, namely $\kappa < -1$ and $-1 <…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Feida Jiang , Haokun Sui