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Singular theories, characterised by the presence of degeneracies in their Lagrangian or Hamiltonian descriptions, require the systematic implementation of constraints in order to obtain well-defined dynamics. While the symplectic framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Callum Bell , David Sloan

We consider minimization problems with structured objective function and smooth constraints, and present a flexible framework that combines the beneficial regularization effects of (exact) penalty and interior-point methods. In the fully…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Alberto De Marchi , Andreas Themelis

So far spin foam models are hardly understood beyond a few of their basic building blocks. To make progress on this question, we define analogue spin foam models, so called spin nets, for quantum groups $\text{SU}(2)_k$ and examine their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-06 Bianca Dittrich , Mercedes Martin-Benito , Sebastian Steinhaus

Quantum many-body systems with kinetic constraints exhibit intriguing relaxation dynamics. Recent experimental progress in the field of cold atomic gases offers a handle for probing collective behavior of such systems, in particular for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-12 Maike Ostmann , Matteo Marcuzzi , Juan P. Garrahan , Igor Lesanovsky

Spherical symmetry is ubiquitous in nature. It's therefore unfortunate that spherical system simulations are so hard, and require complete spheres with millions of interacting particles. Here we introduce an approach to model spherical…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-10-07 Pekka Koskinen , Oleg O. Kit

This paper describes a new approach on optimization of constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) by means of substituting sub-CSPs with locally consistent regular membership constraints. The purpose of this approach is to reduce the number of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Sven Löffler , Ke Liu , Petra Hofstedt

We study the semi-classical limit of the recently proposed coherent spin foam model for (2+1) Lorentzian quantum gravity. Specifically, we analyze the gluing equations derived from the stationary phase approximation of the vertex amplitude.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Alexander F. Jercher , José Diogo Simão , Sebastian Steinhaus

Recently, diffusion models have been used to solve various inverse problems in an unsupervised manner with appropriate modifications to the sampling process. However, the current solvers, which recursively apply a reverse diffusion step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hyungjin Chung , Byeongsu Sim , Dohoon Ryu , Jong Chul Ye

Reliable controllers with high flexibility and performance are necessary for the control of intricate, advanced, and expensive systems such as aircraft, marine vessels, automotive vehicles, and satellites. Meanwhile, control allocation has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-19 David Buzorgnia , Ali Khaki-Sedigh

This paper is concerned with the problem of Model Predictive Control and Rolling Horizon Control of discrete-time systems subject to possibly unbounded random noise inputs, while satisfying hard bounds on the control inputs. We use a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-08 Peter Hokayem , Debasish Chatterjee , John Lygeros

General dynamic properties like controllability and simulability of spin systems, fermionic and bosonic systems are investigated in terms of symmetry. Symmetries may be due to the interaction topology or due to the structure and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Robert Zeier , T. Schulte-Herbrueggen

We present a general method of folding an integrable spin chain, defined on a line, to obtain an integrable open spin chain, defined on a half-line. We illustrate our method through two fundamental models with sl(2) Lie algebra symmetry:…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-06 Alejandro De La Rosa Gomez , Niall MacKay , Vidas Regelskis

The problem of monotone smoothing splines with bounds is formulated as a constrained minimization problem of the calculus of variations. Existence and uniqueness of solutions of this problem is proved, as well as the equivalence of it to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Sara Maad Sasane

In this paper, we introduce a new method for applying the implicit function theorem to find nontrivial solutions to overdetermined problems with a fixed boundary (given) and a free boundary (to be determined). The novelty of this method…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Lorenzo Cavallina

Accurately segmenting a citation string into fields for authors, titles, etc. is a challenging task because the output typically obeys various global constraints. Previous work has shown that modeling soft constraints, where the model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-10-20 Sam Anzaroot , Alexandre Passos , David Belanger , Andrew McCallum

Constrained clustering has been well-studied for algorithms such as $K$-means and hierarchical clustering. However, how to satisfy many constraints in these algorithmic settings has been shown to be intractable. One alternative to encode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Xiang Wang , Buyue Qian , Ian Davidson

We introduce and develop a slave-spin mean-field technique for describing a generic interacting two level systems under time-dependent drivings, where an auxiliary S=1 spin is added to describe the localized character of the electrons. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Maria Florencia Ludovico , Massimo Capone

Complexity is a fundamental characteristic of states within a quantum system. Its use is however mostly limited to bosonic systems, inhibiting its present applicability to supersymmetric theories. This is also relevant to its application to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Rathindra N. Das , Saskia Demulder , Johanna Erdmenger , Christian Northe

Several approximate policy iteration schemes without value functions, which focus on policy representation using classifiers and address policy learning as a supervised learning problem, have been proposed recently. Finding good policies…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-12-30 Christos Dimitrakakis , Michail G. Lagoudakis

A debate has appeared in the literature on loop quantum gravity and spin foams, over whether the secondary simplicity constraints, reducing the connection to be Levi-Civita, should imply the shape matching conditions, reducing twisted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Fabio Anzà , Simone Speziale