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The Sudden Approximation is applied to invert structural data on randomly corrugated surfaces from inert atom scattering intensities. Several expressions relating experimental observables to surface statistical features are derived. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum metrology aims to exploit quantum phenomena to overcome classical limitations in the estimation of relevant parameters. We consider a probe undergoing a phase shift $\varphi$ whose generator is randomly sampled according to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Rozhin Yousefjani , Rosanna Nichols , Shahriar Salimi , Gerardo Adesso

We introduce a methodology to test models with spatial variations of the fine-structure constant $\alpha$, based on the calculation of the angular power spectrum of these measurements. This methodology enables comparisons of observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-24 A. M. M. Pinho , M. Martinelli , C. J. A. P. Martins

A stochastic algorithm is proposed, finding some elements from the set of intrinsic $p$-mean(s) associated to a probability measure $\nu$ on a compact Riemannian manifold and to $p\in[1,\infty)$. It is fed sequentially with independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Marc Arnaudon , Laurent Miclo

We prove area estimates for stable capillary $cmc$ (minimal) hypersurfaces $\Sigma$ with nonpositive Yamabe invariant that are properly immersed in a Riemannian $n$-dimensional manifold $M$ with scalar curvature $R^M$ and mean curvature of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Leandro F. Pessoa , Erisvaldo Véras , Bruno Vieira

We give an explicit estimate of the area of a closed surface by the diameter and a lower bound of curvature. This is better than Calabi-Cao's estimate for a nonnegatively curved two-sphere.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-01 Takashi Shioya

Searches for spacetime variations of fundamental constants have entered an era of unprecedented precision. New, high quality quasar spectra require increasingly refined analytic methods. In this article, a continuation in a series to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-03 John K. Webb , Chung-Chi Lee

We initiate the study of property testing in arbitrary planar graphs. We prove that bipartiteness can be tested in constant time, improving on the previous bound of $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{n})$ for graphs on $n$ vertices. The constant-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Artur Czumaj , Morteza Monemizadeh , Krzysztof Onak , Christian Sohler

Consider the two-dimensional inverse elastic wave scattering by an infinite rough surface with a Dirichlet boundary condition. A non-interative sampling technique is proposed for detecting the rough surface by taking elastic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Tielei Zhu , Jiaqing Yang

The main goal of this paper is to present a series of inequalities connecting the surface area measure of a convex body and surface area measure of its projections and sections. We present a solution of a question from S. Campi, P.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Alexander Koldobsky , Christos Saroglou , Artem Zvavitch

This paper studies sample average approximation (SAA) in solving convex or strongly convex stochastic programming (SP) problems. In estimating SAA's sample efficiency, the state-of-the-art sample complexity bounds entail metric entropy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hongcheng Liu , Jindong Tong

A general approach to selective inference is considered for hypothesis testing of the null hypothesis represented as an arbitrary shaped region in the parameter space of multivariate normal model. This approach is useful for hierarchical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Yoshikazu Terada , Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Cohn and Umans proposed a framework for developing fast matrix multiplication algorithms based on the embedding computation in certain groups algebras. In subsequent work with Kleinberg and Szegedy, they connected this to the search for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Matthew Anderson , Zongliang Ji , Anthony Yang Xu

Let X be a real algebraic surface. The comparison between the volume of real and complex loci of ample divisors D brings us to define the concordance, which is a number between 0 and 1. This number equals 1 when the Picard number is 1, and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-22 Arnaud Moncet

We consider optimization problems on manifolds with equality and inequality constraints. A large body of work treats constrained optimization in Euclidean spaces. In this work, we consider extensions of existing algorithms from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Changshuo Liu , Nicolas Boumal

In this paper, we show that the total area of two distinct surfaces with Gaussian curvature equal to 1, which are also conformal to the Euclidean unit disk with the same conformal factor on the boundary, must be at least 4{\pi}. In other…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Changfeng Gui , Amir Moradifam

We show that a closed piecewise-linear hypersurface immersed in $R^n$ ($n\ge 3$) is the boundary of a convex body if and only if every point in the interior of each $(n-3)$-face has a neighborhood that lies on the boundary of some convex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Konstantin Rybnikov

Based on an idea in Hironaka's proof of resolution of singularities, we present an algorithmic smoothness test for algebraic varieties. The test is inherently parallel and does not involve the calculation of codimension-sized minors of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Janko Boehm , Anne Frühbis-Krüger

With the popularity of drone technologies, aerial photography has become prevalent in many daily scenarios such as environment monitoring, structure inspection, law enforcement etc. A central challenge in this domain is the efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Si Wei Feng

The quantization problem looks for best approximations of a probability measure on a given metric space by finitely many points, where the approximation error is measured with respect to the Wasserstein distance. On particular smooth…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Ata Deniz Aydin , Mikaela Iacobelli