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The Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) is a partition of unity based technique for solving electromagnetic and acoustic boundary integral equations. Past work on the GMM for electromagnetics was confined to geometries modeled by piecewise…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Daniel Dault , Naveen V. Nair , Jie Li , Balasubramaniam Shanker

Computer experiments involving both qualitative and quantitative (QQ) factors have attracted increasing attention. Gaussian process (GP) models have proven effective in this context by choosing specialized covariance functions for QQ…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-19 Linsui Deng , C. F. Jeff Wu

In the settings of Euclidean Jordan algebras, normal decomposition systems (or Eaton triples), and structures induced by complete isometric hyperbolic polynomials, we consider the problem of optimizing a certain combination (such as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-11 M. Seetharama Gowda

We classify the Lie symmetries of variable coefficient Gardner equations (called also the combined KdV-mKdV equations). In contrast to the particular results presented in Molati and Ramollo (2012) we perform the exhaustive group…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-03-04 Olena Vaneeva , Oksana Kuriksha , Christodoulos Sophocleous

We show that skew-orthogonal functions, defined with respect to Jacobi weight $w_{a,b}(x)={(1-x)}^a{(1+x)}^b$, $a$, $b>-1$, including the limiting cases of Laguerre ($w_{a}(x)=x^{a}e^{-x}$, $a > -1$) and Gaussian weight ($w(x)=e^{-x^2}$),…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-30 Ghosh Saugata

The quantum mechanical expression relating two commuting operators is reformulated such that the power method (also called method of moments) for iteratively calculating eigenvalues and eigenvectors becomes applicable. The new iterative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 Wolfgang A. Berger

We consider the problem of approximating the set of eigenvalues of the covariance matrix of a multivariate distribution (equivalently, the problem of approximating the "population spectrum"), given access to samples drawn from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Weihao Kong , Gregory Valiant

We present a high-order spacetime numerical method for discretizing and solving linear initial-boundary value problems using wavelet-based techniques with user-prescribed error estimates. The spacetime wavelet discretization yields a system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Cody D. Cochran , Karel Matous

We give formulae for first and second derivatives of generalized eigenvalues/eigenvectors of symmetric matrices and generalized singular values/singular vectors of rectangular matrices when the matrices are linear or nonlinear functions of…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-18 Jan de Leeuw

We present a new approach to compute selected eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the two-parameter eigenvalue problem. Our method requires computing generalized eigenvalue problems of the same size as the matrices of the initial two-parameter…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Henrik Eisenmann , Yuji Nakatsukasa

The multi-view Gaussian process latent variable model (MV-GPLVM) aims to learn a unified representation from multi-view data but is hindered by challenges such as limited kernel expressiveness and low computational efficiency. To overcome…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-16 Zi Yang , Ying Li , Zhidi Lin , Michael Minyi Zhang , Pablo M. Olmos

We compute the sphaleron rate in quenched QCD for a temperature $T \simeq 1.24~T_c$ from the inversion of the Euclidean lattice time correlator of the topological charge density. We explore and compare two different strategies: one follows…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-30 Claudio Bonanno , Francesco D'Angelo , Massimo D'Elia , Lorenzo Maio , Manuel Naviglio

In single vibronic level (SVL) fluorescence experiments, the electronically excited initial state is also excited in one or several vibrational modes. Whereas computing all contributing Franck-Condon factors individually becomes impractical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Zhan Tong Zhang , Jiří J. L. Vaníček

Spectral graph theory is a branch of mathematics that studies the relationships between the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of Laplacian and adjacency matrices and their associated graphs. The Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Josh Payne , Mario Srouji

We find exact energy eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the quantum bouncer in the presence of the minimal length uncertainty and the maximal momentum. This form of Generalized (Gravitational) Uncertainty Principle (GUP) agrees with various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-19 Pouria Pedram

This paper is concerned with the design of two different classes of Galerkin boundary element methods for the solution of high-frequency sound-hard scattering problems in the exterior of two-dimensional smooth convex scatterers. Both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Akash Anand , Yassine Boubendir , Fatih Ecevit , Souaad Lazergui

This paper develops an enhanced finite element method for approximating a class of variational problems which exhibit the \textit{Lavrentiev gap phenomenon} in the sense that the minimum values of the energy functional have a nontrivial gap…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Xiaobing Feng , Stefan Schnake

We derive an exact generalization of the well-known Lebowitz--Percus--Verlet (LPV) formula that relates the kinetic energy fluctuations of an isolated system to its specific heat. Our general formula, obtained by the application of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-03 Sergio Davis , Catalina Ruíz , Claudia Loyola , Carlos Femenías , Joaquín Peralta

Latent variable models (LVMs) learn probabilistic models of data manifolds lying in an \emph{ambient} Euclidean space. In a number of applications, a priori known spatial constraints can shrink the ambient space into a considerably smaller…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-26 Anton Mallasto , Søren Hauberg , Aasa Feragen

Gaussian Process (GP) models are widely utilized as surrogate models in scientific and engineering fields. However, standard GP models are limited to continuous variables due to the difficulties in establishing correlation structures for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-05 Mingyu Pu , Songhao Wang , Haowei Wang , Szu Hui Ng