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The geometric problem of estimating an unknown compact convex set from evaluations of its support function arises in a range of scientific and engineering applications. Traditional approaches typically rely on estimators that minimize the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-26 Yong Sheng Soh , Venkat Chandrasekaran

This paper studies the classes of semigoups and monoids with context-free and deterministic context-free word problem. First, some examples are exhibited to clarify the relationship between these classes and their connection with the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Tara Brough , Alan J. Cain , Markus Pfeiffer

An introduction to geometric valuation theory is given. The focus is on classification results for $\operatorname{SL}(n)$ invariant and rigid motion invariant valuations on convex bodies and on convex functions.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Monika Ludwig , Fabian Mussnig

Multimodular functions, primarily used in the literature of queueing theory, discrete-event systems, and operations research, constitute a fundamental function class in discrete convex analysis. The objective of this paper is to clarify the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Satoko Moriguchi , Kazuo Murota

In this paper we develop a systematic theory of compact operator semigroups on locally convex vector spaces. In particular we prove new and generalized versions of the mean ergodic theorem and apply them to different notions of mean…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Henrik Kreidler

We will use different way (in this work) from the existing methods in the literature which speaking in the separation of convex sets was carried out by hyperplanes. We are examining the behavior of convex set which is the domain of convex…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Malik Saad Al-Muhja , Amer Himza Almyaly

We give a complete complexity classification for the problem of finding a solution to a given system of equations over a fixed finite monoid, given that a solution over a more restricted monoid exists. As a corollary, we obtain a complexity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Alberto Larrauri , Stanislav Živný

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

We define basic notions in the category of conic representations of a topological group and prove elementary facts about them. We show that a conic representation determines an ordinary dynamical system of the group together with a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Matan Tal

In this paper, authors study the convexity and concavity properties of real-valued function with respect to the classical means, and prove a conjecture posed by Bruce Ebanks in \cite{e}.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Barkat Ali Bhayo , Li Yin

The famous Hadwiger theorem classifies all rigid motion invariant continuous valuations on convex sets as linear conbinations of quermassintegrals. We prove much more general result. We classify continuous valuations which are invariant…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Semyon Alesker

Characterizations of all continuous, additive and $\mathrm{GL}(n)$-equivariant endomorphisms of the space of convex functions on a Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$, of the subspace of convex functions that are finite in a neighborhood of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Georg C. Hofstätter , Jonas Knoerr

The quantization of vector bundles is defined. Examples are constructed for the well controlled case of equivariant vector bundles over compact coadjoint orbits. (Coadjoint orbits are symplectic spaces with a transitive, semisimple symmetry…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-30 Eli Hawkins

Abstract convexity generalises classical convexity by considering the suprema of functions taken from an arbitrarily defined set of functions. These are called the abstract linear (abstract affine) functions. The purpose of this paper is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Reinier Diàz Millàn , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

Discrete convex functions are used in many areas, including operations research, discrete-event systems, game theory, and economics. The objective of this paper is to offer a survey on fundamental operations for various kinds of discrete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Kazuo Murota

Convexity and convex functions play an important role in theoretical physics. To initiate a study of the possible uses of convex functions in General Relativity, we discuss the consequences of a spacetime $(M,g_{\mu \nu})$ or an initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-07 Gary W. Gibbons , Akihiro Ishibashi

Convexity and convex functions play an important role in theoretical physics. To initiate a study of the possible uses of convex functions in General Relativity, we discuss the consequences of a spacetime $(M,g_{\mu \nu})$ or an initial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Gary W. Gibbons , Akihiro Ishibashi

We give an example of a convex, finite and lower semicontinuous function whose subdifferential is everywhere empty. This is possible since the function is defined on an incomplete normed space. The function serves as a universal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Gerd Wachsmuth

In this work we deal with set-valued functions with values in the power set of a separated locally convex space where a nontrivial pointed convex cone induces a partial order relation. A set-valued function is evenly convex if its epigraph…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 M. D. Fajardo

We study semigroups of convex monotone operators on spaces of continuous functions and their behaviour with respect to $\Gamma$-convergence. In contrast to the linear theory, the domain of the generator is, in general, not invariant under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Jonas Blessing , Robert Denk , Michael Kupper , Max Nendel