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We develop a method for optimization in shape spaces, i.e., sets of surfaces modulo re-parametrization. Unlike previously proposed gradient flows, we achieve superlinear convergence rates through a subtle approximation of the shape Hessian,…

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In this paper, we employed linear algebra and functional analysis to determine necessary and sufficient conditions for oscillation-free and stable solutions to linear and nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations. We applied…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Ethan Jensen , R. Corban Harwood

The computation of scattering poles for a sound-soft obstacle is investigated. These poles correspond to the eigenvalues of two boundary integral operators. We construct novel decompositions of these operators and show that they are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Yunyun Ma , Jiguang Sun

Division-of-focal-plane modulation is a powerful technique for real-time polarization imaging. This technique, however, suffers from the non-uniformity of the performance of linear polarization filters and photodetectors. We study the…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-11 Zhaoxiang Jiang , Qingchuan Zhang , Shangquan Wu , Tan Xu , Yong Su , Chuanbiao Bai

Phase recovery from the bispectrum is a central problem in speckle interferometry which can be posed as an optimization problem minimizing a weighted nonlinear least-squares objective function. We look at two different formulations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 James L. Herring , James Nagy , Lars Ruthotto

This note considers the unstructured sparse recovery problems in a general form. Examples include rational approximation, spectral function estimation, Fourier inversion, Laplace inversion, and sparse deconvolution. The main challenges are…

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We optimize a selection of eigenvalues of the Laplace operator with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions by adjusting the shape of the domain on which the eigenvalue problem is considered. Here, a phase-field function is used to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Harald Garcke , Paul Hüttl , Christian Kahle , Patrik Knopf , Tim Laux

The spectral decomposition of a symmetric, second-order tensor is widely adopted in many fields of Computational Mechanics. As an example, in elasto-plasticity under large strain and rotations, given the Cauchy deformation tensor, it is a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Andrea Panteghini

Motivated by inverse problems with a single passive measurement, we introduce and analyze a new class of inverse spectral problems on closed Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, we establish two general uniqueness results for the recovery of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Ali Feizmohammadi , Katya Krupchyk

We consider a classical shape optimization problem for the eigenvalues of elliptic operators with homogeneous boundary conditions on domains in the $N$-dimensional Euclidean space. We survey recent results concerning the analytic dependence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Davide Buoso , Pier Domenico Lamberti

We numerically investigate the generalized Steklov problem for the modified Helmholtz equation and focus on the relation between its spectrum and the geometric structure of the domain. We address three distinct aspects: (i) the asymptotic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Adrien Chaigneau , Denis S. Grebenkov

We consider the eigenvalue problem $K x = \lambda x$. Our analysis focuses on the convergence rates of eigenvalue and spectral subspace approximations for compact linear integral operator $K$ with Green's kernels. By employing orthogonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Shashank K. Shukla , Gobinda Rakshit , Akshay S. Rane

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the spectral properties, maximum principles, and shape optimization problems for a broad class of nonlinear ``superposition operators" defined as continuous superpositions of operators of…

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In this paper, we develop a general mathematical framework for analyzing electostatics within multi-layered metamaterial structures. The multi-layered structure can be designed by nesting complementary negative and regular materials…

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We consider plasmon resonances and cloaking for the elastostatic system in $\mathbb{R}^3$ via the spectral theory of Neumann-Poincar\'e operator. We first derive the full spectral properties of the Neumann-Poincar\'e operator for the 3D…

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We introduce a novel approach to calculating three-dimensional freeform reflectors with a scattering surface. Our method is based on optimal transport and utilizes a Fredholm integral equation to express scattering. By solving this integral…

Shape optimization problems for interior eigenvalues is a very challenging task since already the computation of interior eigenvalues for a given shape is far from trivial. For example, a concrete maximizer with respect to shapes of fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Andreas Kleefeld

The aims of the reported work are to provide new insights into the quantum dot optical properties confined in an inverse of a quadratic Hellmann potential. The Schr\"odinger equation is solved using the Nikiforov-Uvarov (NU) method, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 L. Máthé , C. P. Onyenegecha , A. -A. Farcaş , L. -M. Pioraş-Ţimbolmaş , M. Solaimani , H. Hassanabadi

This paper introduces a new shape-based image reconstruction technique applicable to a large class of imaging problems formulated in a variational sense. Given a collection of shape priors (a shape dictionary), we define our problem as…

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