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In this article we will present a new perspective on the variable order fractional calculus, which allows for differentiation and integration to a variable order, i.e. one differentiates (or integrates) a function along the path of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Fabian Harang , Torstein Nilssen , Frank Proske

Uniform convergence of empirical norms - empirical measures of squared functions - is a topic which has received considerable attention in the literature on empirical processes. The results are relevant as empirical norms occur due to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Sara van de Geer

One of the most impressive applications of a quantum annealer was optimizing a group of Volkswagen to reduce traffic congestion using a D-Wave system. A simple formulation of a quadratic term was proposed to reduce traffic congestion. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-11 Masayuki Ohzeki

We consider a class of convex optimization problems modelling temporal mass transport and mass change between two given mass distributions (the so-called dynamic formulation of unbalanced transport), where we focus on those models for which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

Computing derivatives of observables with respect to parameters of the theory is a powerful tool in lattice QCD, as it allows the study of physical effects not directly accessible in the original Monte Carlo simulation. Prominent examples…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-03-26 David Albandea , Simon Kuberski , Fernando P. Panadero

The simple product formulae for derivatives of scalar functions raised to different powers are generalized for functions which take values in the set of symmetric positive definite matrices. These formulae are fundamental in derivation of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Michal Bathory

Inverse optimal control problem emerges in different practical applications, where the goal is to design a cost function in order to approximate given optimal strategies of an expert. Typical application is in robotics for generation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Frédéric Jean , Sofya Maslovskaya

In this paper a survey is given of application of a method based on Grunsky coefficients for obtaining different estimates (some sharp) for the general class of univalent functions where no analytical characterisation exists. More…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-10-29 M. Obradovic , N. Tuneski

On a constraint manifold we give an explicit formula for the Hessian matrix of a cost function that involves the Hessian matrix of a prolonged function and the Hessian matrices of the constraint functions. We give an explicit formula for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Petre Birtea , Dan Comănescu

This paper proposes and analyzes fully data driven methods for inference about the mean function of a stochastic process from a sample of independent trajectories of the process, observed at discrete time points and corrupted by additive…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-05-20 F. Bunea , M. H. Wegkamp , A. E. Ivanescu

A piecewise constant Mayer cost function is used to model optimal control problems in which the state space is partitioned into several regions, each having its own Mayer cost value. In such a context, the standard numerical methods used in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-02 P. -Y. Bouchet , C. Audet , L. Bourdin

This article generalizes the study of ramified optimal transport with capacity constraint in transport multi-paths by generalizing the $\mathbf{M}_{\alpha}$ cost to $\mathbf{M}_{\alpha,c}$, which incorporates capacity constraints into the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Qinglan Xia , Haotian Sun

In this article we consider risk-sensitive control of semi-Markov processes with a discrete state space. We consider general utility functions and discounted cost in the optimization criteria. We consider random finite horizon and infinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Arnab Bhabak , Subhamay Saha

In this paper, we introduce a class of indicators that enable to compute efficiently optimal transport plans associated to arbitrary distributions of N demands and M supplies in R in the case where the cost function is concave. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Julie Delon , Julien Salomon , Andrei Sobolevskii

The Bregman-Wasserstein divergence is the optimal transport cost when the underlying cost function is given by a Bregman divergence, and arises naturally in fields such as statistics and machine learning. We establish fundamental properties…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Amanjit Singh Kainth , Cale Rankin , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

The confluent second-order supersymmetric quantum mechanics, for which the factorization energies tend to a single value, is studied. We show that the Wronskian formula remains valid if generalized eigenfunctions are taken as seed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 David J. Fernandez C. , Encarnacion Salinas-Hernandez

The notions of the Euclidean surface area measure and the spherical surface area measure of $\alpha$-concave functions in $\mathbb{R}^n$, with $-\frac{1}{n}<\alpha<0$, are introduced via a first variation of the total mass functional with…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Xiao Li , Nguyen Dac Khoi Nguyen , Deping Ye

Fuel cost contributes to a significant portion of operating cost in cargo transportation. Though classic routing models usually treat fuel cost as input data, fuel consumption heavily depends on the travel speed, which has led to the study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Ricardo Fukasawa , Qie He , Fernando Santos , Yongjia Song

This paper is concerned with a mean-field linear quadratic (LQ, for short) optimal control problem with deterministic coefficients. It is shown that convexity of the cost functional is necessary for the finiteness of the mean-field LQ…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Jingrui Sun

In this paper, random and stochastic processes are defined on fractal curves. Fractal calculus is used to define cumulative distribution function, probability density function, moments, variance and correlation function of stochastic…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Alireza Khalili Golmankhaneh , Kerri Welch , Cristina Serpa , Ivanka Stamova