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Operator learning offers a robust framework for approximating mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces. It has also become a powerful tool for solving inverse problems in the computational sciences. This chapter surveys…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Nicholas H. Nelsen , Yunan Yang

Functions with uniform level sets can represent orders, preference relations or other binary relations and thus turn out to be a tool for scalarization that can be used, e.g., in multicriteria optimization, decision theory, mathematical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Petra Weidner

Some new trace inequalities for operators in Hilbert spaces are provided. The superadditivity and monotonicity of some associated functionals are investigated and applications for power series of such operators are given. Some trace…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Silvestru Sever Dragomir

Divergences are quantities that measure discrepancy between two probability distributions and play an important role in various fields such as statistics and machine learning. Divergences are non-negative and are equal to zero if and only…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Tomohiro Nishiyama

Non-monotone inductive definitions were studied in the late 1960's and early 1970's with the aim of understanding connections between the complexity of the formulas defining the induction steps and the size of the ordinals measuring the…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-06-08 Dag Normann

Properties of compositions and convex combinations of averaged nonexpansive operators are investigated and applied to the design of new fixed point algorithms in Hilbert spaces. An extended version of the forward-backward splitting…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Patrick L. Combettes , Isao Yamada

A representation-theoretic approach to special functions was developed in the 40-s and 50-s in the works of I.M.Gelfand, M.A.Naimark, N.Ya.Vilenkin, and their collaborators. The essence of this approach is the fact that most classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Pavel Etingof , Alexander Kirillov

This article studies the monotonicity, log-convexity of the modified Lommel functions by using its power series and infinite product representation. Same properties for the ratio of the modified Lommel functions with the Lommel function,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Saiful R Mondal

Positive real odd matrix functions, often referred to as positive real lossless matrix functions, play an important role in many applications in multi-port electrical systems. In this paper we present closer analogues to some of the known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Sanne ter Horst , Alma Naudé

Monotonicity with respect to all arguments is fundamental to the definition of aggregation functions. It is also a limiting property that results in many important non-monotonic averaging functions being excluded from the theoretical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Tim Wilkin , Gleb Beliakov

This paper investigates first-order variable metric backward forward dynamical systems associated with monotone inclusion and convex minimization problems in real Hilbert space. The operators are chosen so that the backward-forward…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Pankaj Gautam , D. R. Sahu , J. C. Yao

Several matrix/operator inequalies are given. Most of them are unexpected extensions of the Araki Log-majorization theorem, obtained thanks to a new log-majorization for positive linear maps and normal operators (Theorem 2.9). The main idea…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Jean-Christophe Bourin , Eun-Young Lee

A complete classification of continuous, dually epi-translation invariant, and rotation equivariant valuations on convex functions is established. This characterizes the recently introduced functional Minkowski vectors, which naturally…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Mohamed A. Mouamine , Fabian Mussnig

This paper introduces a new definition of $\alpha$-monotone operators in real 2-uniformly convex and smooth Banach spaces. Based on this new definition, we establish several novel structural and analytical properties of such operators,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Changchi Huang , Jigen Peng , Yuchao Tang

In this paper we present equivalence results for several types of unbounded operator functions. A generalization of the concept equivalence after extension is introduced and used to prove equivalence and linearization for classes of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Christian Engström , Axel Torshage

The concept of permutograph is introduced and properties of integral functions on permutographs are established. The central result characterizes the class of integral functions that are representable as lattice polynomials. This result is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-12 Sergei Ovchinnikov

Using the theory of Hilbert direct integrals, we introduce and study a monotonicity-preserving operation, termed the integral resolvent mixture. It combines arbitrary families of monotone operators acting on different spaces and linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Minh N. Bùi , Patrick L. Combettes

We obtain operator concavity (convexity) of some functions of two or three variables by using perspectives of regular operator mappings of one or several variables. As an application, we obtain, for $ 0<p < 1,$ concavity, respectively…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-09 Zhihua Zhang

This tutorial paper presents a survey of results, both classical and new, linking inner functions and operator theory. Topics discussed include invariant subspaces, universal operators, Hankel and Toeplitz operators, model spaces, truncated…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Isabelle Chalendar , Pamela Gorkin , Jonathan R. Partington

One matrix structure in the area of monotone Boolean functions is defined here. Some of its combinatorial, algebraic and algorithmic properties are derived. On the base of these properties, three algorithms are built. First of them…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Valentin Bakoev