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For $\Gamma$ a cocompact or cofinite Fuchsian group, we study the hyperbolic lattice point problem in conjugacy classes, which is a modification of the classical hyperbolic lattice point problem. We use large sieve inequalities for the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Dimitrios Chatzakos , Yiannis Petridis

We study local control of the mechanism with the growth vector (4,7). We study controllability and extremal trajectories on the nilpotent approximation as an example of the control theory on Lie group. We give solutions of the system an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Jaroslav Hrdina , Lenka Zalabova

In this paper we study the sub-Finsler geometry as a time-optimal control problem. In particular, we consider non-smooth and non-strictly convex sub-Finsler structures associated with the Heisenberg, Grushin, and Martinet distributions.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Davide Barilari , Ugo Boscain , Enrico Le Donne , Mario Sigalotti

Using symplectic techniques and spectral analysis of smooth paths of self-adjoint operators, we characterize the set of conjugate instants along a geodesic in an infinite dimensional Riemannian Hilbert manifold.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-03-16 L. Biliotti , R. Exel , P. Piccione , D. V. Tausk

In this paper, we describe a constrained Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for the optimal control of nonholonomic mechanical systems. In particular, we aim to minimize a cost functional, given initial and final conditions where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-24 Anthony Bloch , Leonardo Colombo , Rohit Gupta , David Martin de Diego

We consider the conjugation-action of an arbitrary upper-block parabolic subgroup of GL_n(C) on the variety of x-nilpotent complex matrices. We obtain a criterion as to whether the action admits a finite number of orbits and specify a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-19 Magdalena Boos

Using the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for the time-optimal problem in coordinates of the first kind, we find extremals of abitrary left-invariant sub-Finsler quasimetric on the Cartan group defined by a distribution of rank two.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Valera Berestovskii , Irina Zubareva

In this work, we develop a collection of novel methods for the entropic-regularised optimal transport problem, which are inspired by existing mirror descent interpretations of the Sinkhorn algorithm used for solving this problem. These are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Vishwak Srinivasan , Qijia Jiang

In this paper, we study the Entropic Martingale Optimal Transport (EMOT) problem on \mathbb{R}. The investigation of the EMOT problem arises in the calibration problem of the Stochastic Volatility Models, where martingale constraints…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Fan Chen , Giovanni Conforti , Zhenjie Ren , Xiaozhen Wang

The paper considers a linear system of Boltzmann transport equations modelling the evolution of three species of particles, photons, electrons and positrons. The system is coupled because of the collision term (an integral operator). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-02 Jouko Tervo , Petri Kokkonen

Let E be the Engel group and D be a rank 2 bracket generating left invariant distribution with a Lorentzian metric, which is a nondegenerate metric of index 1. In this paper, we first study some properties of horizontal curves on E. Second,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Qihui Cai , Tiren Huang , Yuri L. Sachkov , Xiaoping Yang

In this paper, we define and study strong right-invariant sub-Riemannian structures on the group of diffeomorphisms of a manifold with bounded geometry. We derive the Hamiltonian geodesic equations for such structures, and we provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-19 Sylvain Arguillere , Emmanuel Trélat

We propose an efficient approach for the grouping of local orientations (points on vessels) via nilpotent approximations of sub-Riemannian distances in the 2D and 3D roto-translation groups $SE(2)$ and $SE(3)$. In our distance…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Erik J. Bekkers , Da Chen , Jorg M. Portegies

We propose a discrete time formulation of the semi-martingale optimal transport problem based on multi-marginal entropic transport. This approach offers a new way to formulate and solve numerically the calibration problem proposed by [17],…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Jean-David Benamou , Guillaume Chazareix , Grégoire Loeper

We consider the sub-Riemannian length minimization problem on the group of motions of pseudo Euclidean plane that form the special hyperbolic group SH(2). The system comprises of left invariant vector fields with 2-dimensional linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-08 Yasir Awais Butt , Yuri L. Sachkov , Aamer Iqbal Bhatti

We consider the conjugation-action of an arbitrary upper-block parabolic subgroup of the general linear group on the variety of nilpotent matrices in its Lie algebra. Lie-theoretically, it is natural to wonder about the number of orbits of…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Magdalena Boos , Michaël Bulois

By definition, a map quasiperiodic on a set $X$ if the map is conjugate to a pure rotation. Suppose we have a trajectory $(x_n)$ that we suspect is quasiperiodic. How do we determine if it is? In this paper we show how to compute the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Suddhasattwa Das , James A. Yorke

This letter investigates dynamical optimal transport of underactuated linear systems over an infinite time horizon. In our previous work, we proposed to integrate model predictive control and the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm to perform…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

For the sub-Riemannian problem on the group of motions of Euclidean space we present explicit formulas for extremal controls in a special case, when one of the initial momenta is fixed.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Alexey Mashtakov , Anton Popov

For a Lagrangian system with nonholonomic constraints, we construct extensions of the equations of motion to sets of second-order ordinary differential equations. In the case of a purely kinetic Lagrangian, we investigate the conditions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Malika Belrhazi , Tom Mestdag