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There are two prominent applications of the mathematical concept of topology to the physics of materials: band topology, which classifies different topological insulators and semimetals, and topological defects that represent immutable…

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In this paper we study the convex problem of optimizing the sum of a smooth function and a compactly supported non-smooth term with a specific separable form. We analyze the block version of the generalized conditional gradient method when…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-28 Amir Beck , Edouard Pauwels , Shoham Sabach

The cyclic block coordinate descent-type (CBCD-type) methods, which performs iterative updates for a few coordinates (a block) simultaneously throughout the procedure, have shown remarkable computational performance for solving strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Xingguo Li , Tuo Zhao , Raman Arora , Han Liu , Mingyi Hong

This work belongs to the framework of inverse problems with linear model. The resolution of this type of problem consists in minimizing (possibly under constraints) a function of discrepancy between the measurements and a physical model of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Henri Lantéri

We present the first deterministic, finite-step algorithm for exact tensor ring (TR) decomposition, addressing an open question about the existence of such procedures. Our method leverages blockwise simultaneous diagonalization to recover…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Han Chen , Sitan Chen , Anru R. Zhang

The language and methods of algebraic topology, particularly homotopy theory, have been extensively used in the study of the identification, the classification and the evolution of defects. Topological methods provide the means for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. D. M. Kavoussanaki

Based on the strong-disorder renormalization group method, a microscopic mechanism of defect formation in the quantum annealing of the random transverse-field Ising chain is proposed, which represents the annealing process as a gradual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-19 Róbert Juhász

Motivated by the recent introduction of a $U(1)$-symmetric toric code model, we investigate symmetry-based deformations of topological order by systematically deconstructing the Gauss-law-enforcing star terms of the toric code (TC)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-01 Jiaxin Qiao , Yoshito Watanabe , Simon Trebst

When a soft elastic cylinder is bent beyond a critical radius of curvature, a sharp fold in the form of a kink appears at its inner side while the outer side remains smooth. The critical radius increases linearly with the diameter of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Apurba Lal Das , Animangsu Ghatak

We study a renormalizable four dimensional model with two deformed quantized space directions. A one-loop renormalization is performed explicitly. The Euclidean model is connected to the Minkowski version via an analytic continuation. At a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Harald Grosse , Michael Wohlgenannt

We introduce a novel framework for implementing error-correction in constrained systems. The main idea of our scheme, called Quantized-Constraint Concatenation (QCC), is to employ a process of embedding the codewords of an error-correcting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Dor Elimelech , Tom Meyerovitch , Moshe Schwartz

In directed graphs, a cycle can be seen as a structure that allows its vertices to loop back to themselves, or as a structure that allows pairs of vertices to reach each other through distinct paths. We extend these concepts to temporal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Davi de Andrade , Júlio Araújo , Allen Ibiapina , Andrea Marino , Jason Schoeters , Ana Silva

We propose a systematic method of dealing with the canonical constrained structure of reducible systems in the Dirac and symplectic approaches which involves an enlargement of phase and configuration spaces, respectively. It is not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Banerjee , J. Barcelos-Neto

The fundamental understanding of loop formation of long polymer chains in solution has been an important thread of research for several theoretical and experimental studies. Loop formations are important phenomenological parameters in many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-17 Moumita Ganguly , Anirudhha Chakraborty

Fluid-structure interactions are a widespread phenomenon in nature. Although their numerical modeling have come a long way, the application of numerical design tools to these multiphysics problems is still lagging behind. Gradient-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Mohamed Abdelhamid , Aleksander Czekanski

Topological defects are one of the most conspicuous features of liquid crystals. In two dimensional nematics, they have been shown to behave effectively as particles with both, charge and orientation, which dictate their interactions. Here,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-14 Daniel J. G. Pearce , Karsten Kruse

A powerful technique is introduced for simulating mechanical and electromechanical properties of one-dimensional nanostructures under arbitrary combinations of bending, twisting, and stretching. The technique is based on a novel control of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Pekka Koskinen

Within the context of finite deformation elasticity theory the problem of deforming an open sector of a thick-walled circular cylindrical tube into a complete circular cylindrical tube is analyzed. The analysis provides a means of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-01-23 Micehl Destrade , Jerry G. Murphy , Ray W. Ogden

Deformations of compact Riemann surfaces are considered using a \v{C}ech cohomology sliding overlaps approach. Cocycles are calculated for conformal cutting and regluing deformations at zeros of Abelian differentials. A second order…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Scott A. Wolpert

We present the development of extended diffraction tomography, a new approach to the solution of the linear seismic waveform inversion problem. This method has several appealing features, such as the use of arbitrary depth-dependent…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-05-05 R. B. Schlottmann