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In this paper we introduce the notion of rational Hausdorff divisor, we analyze the dimension and irreducibility of its associated linear system of curves, and we prove that all irreducible real curves belonging to the linear system are…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-22 Sonia L. Rueda , Juana Sendra , J. Rafael Sendra

Dual Bernstein polynomials of one or two variables have proved to be very useful in obtaining B\'{e}zier form of the $L^2$-solution of the problem of best polynomial approximation of B\'{e}zier curve or surface. In this connection, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Stanisław Lewanowicz , Paweł Keller , Paweł Woźny

We propose a patchwise local Fourier extension method for approximating smooth functions on general two dimensional domains with curved boundaries. The domain is embedded into a Cartesian background grid and decomposed into rectangular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Zhenyu Zhao , Yanfei Wang

The output scores of a neural network classifier are converted to probabilities via normalizing over the scores of all competing categories. Computing this partition function, $Z$, is then linear in the number of categories, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-08-10 Pushpendre Rastogi , Benjamin Van Durme

We address primary decomposition conjectures for knot concordance groups, which predict direct sum decompositions into primary parts. We show that the smooth concordance group of topologically slice knots has a large subgroup for which the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Jae Choon Cha

Quantum computation with quantum data that can traverse closed timelike curves represents a new physical model of computation. We argue that a model of quantum computation in the presence of closed timelike curves can be formulated which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dave Bacon

This paper investigates the pathwise uniform convergence in probability of fully discrete finite-element approximations for the two-dimensional stochastic Navier-Stokes equations with multiplicative noise, subject to no-slip boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Binjie Li , Xiaoping Xie , Qin Zhou

We consider the popular and classical method of alternating projections for finding a point in the intersection of two closed sets. By situating the algorithm in a metric space, equipped only with well-behaved geodesics and angles (in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Adrian S. Lewis , Genaro López-Acedo , Adriana Nicolae

Fine-grained complexity theory is the area of theoretical computer science that proves conditional lower bounds based on the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis and similar conjectures. This area has been thriving in the last decade, leading…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Karl Bringmann

We generalize the technique of [Solving Dirichlet boundary-value problems on curved domains by extensions from subdomains, SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 34, pp. A497--A519 (2012)] to elliptic problems with mixed boundary conditions and elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Weifeng Qiu , Manuel Solano , Patrick Vega

We develop a complexity theory for approximate real computations. We first produce a theory for exact computations but with condition numbers. The input size depends on a condition number, which is not assumed known by the machine. The…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gregorio Malajovich , Mike Shub

Topological Data Analysis methods can be useful for classification and clustering tasks in many different fields as they can provide two dimensional persistence diagrams that summarize important information about the shape of potentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-02 Bernardo Ameneyro , Rebekah Herrman , George Siopsis , Vasileios Maroulas

For every link $L$ we construct a complex algebraic plane curve that intersects $S^3$ transversally in a link $\tilde{L}$ that contains $L$ as a sublink. This construction proves that every link $L$ is the sublink of a quasipositive link…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Benjamin Bode

We consider the problem of approximating a function in a general nonlinear subset of $L^2$, when only a weighted Monte Carlo estimate of the $L^2$-norm can be computed. Of particular interest in this setting is the concept of sample…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Philipp Trunschke

We present an algorithm to compute best least-squares approximations of discrete real-valued functions by first-degree splines (broken lines) with free knots. We demonstrate that the algorithm delivers after a finite number of steps a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Ludwig J. Cromme , Jens Kunath , Andreas Krebs

We describe how to approximate the Riemann curvature tensor as well as sectional curvatures on possibly infinite-dimensional shape spaces that can be thought of as Riemannian manifolds. To this end, we extend the variational time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Alexander Effland , Behrend Heeren , Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

We explain how to use smooth bivariate splines of arbitrary degree to solve the exterior Helmholtz equation based on a Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) technique. In a previous study (cf. [26]), it was shown that bivariate spline functions of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Shelvean Kapita , Ming Jun Lai

Overparameterized shallow neural networks admit substantial parameter redundancy: distinct parameter vectors may represent the same predictor due to hidden-unit permutations, rescalings, and related symmetries. As a result, geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hang-Cheng Dong , Pengcheng Cheng

Quasi-equilibrium approximation is a widely used closure approximation approach for model reduction with applications in complex fluids, materials science, etc. It is based on the maximum entropy principle and leads to thermodynamically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Shan Jiang , Haijun Yu

Potts models, which can be used to analyze dependent observations on a lattice, have seen widespread application in a variety of areas, including statistical mechanics, neuroscience, and quantum computing. To address the intractability of…

Computation · Statistics 2021-10-15 Anirban Chakraborty , Matthias Katzfuss , Joseph Guinness