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In this paper we provide a sharp characterization of the smooth four-dimensional sphere. The assumptions of the theorem are conformally invariant, and can be reduced to an L^2 inequality of the Weyl tensor and positivity of the Yamabe…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Y. A Chang , Matthew J. Gursky , Paul Yang

In this article we prove a reducibility result for the linear Schr\"odinger equation on the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ with quasi-periodic in time perturbation. Our result includes the case of unbounded perturbation that we assume to be of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Roberto Feola , Benoît Grébert

A proof for the point-wise convergence of the factors in the higher-order power method for tensors towards a critical point is given. It is obtained by applying established results from the theory of \L{}ojasiewicz inequalities to the…

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Bilevel optimization has recently regained interest owing to its applications in emerging machine learning fields such as hyperparameter optimization, meta-learning, and reinforcement learning. Recent results have shown that simple…

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In mathematical modelling, the data and solutions are represented as measurable functions and their quality is oftentimes captured by the membership to a certain function space. One of the core questions for an analysis of a model is the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Vít Musil , Luboš Pick , Jakub Takáč

In this paper we establish some new bounds for the companion of Ostrowski's inequality for the case when $f'\in L^1[a,b]$, $f"\in L^2[a,b]$ and $f'\in L^2[a,b]$, respectively. We point out that the results in the first and third cases are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-22 Wenjun Liu

We give an $O(\log^2 n)$-query algorithm for finding a Tarski fixed point over the $4$-dimensional lattice $[n]^4$, matching the $\Omega(\log^2 n)$ lower bound of [EPRY20]. Additionally, our algorithm yields an ${O(\log^{\lceil…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xi Chen , Yuhao Li , Mihalis Yannakakis

We study sharp frame bounds of Gabor frames with the standard Gaussian window and prove that the square lattice optimizes both the lower and the upper frame bound among all rectangular lattices. This proves a conjecture of Floch, Alard &…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-05 Markus Faulhuber , Stefan Steinerberger

The complexity of solving equations over finite groups has been an active area of research over the last two decades, starting with Goldmann and Russell, \emph{The complexity of solving equations over finite groups} from 1999. One important…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Erhard Aichinger , Simon Grünbacher

This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yizun Lin , Jian-Feng Cai , Zhao-Rong Lai , Cheng Li

A 3-fold terminal quotient singularity X=C^3/G admits the economic resolution Y-> X, which is "close to being crepant". This paper proves that the economic resolution Y is isomorphic to a distinguished component of a moduli space of certain…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Seung-Jo Jung

The paper addresses parametric inequality systems described by polynomial functions in finite dimensions, where state-dependent infinite parameter sets are given by finitely many polynomial inequalities and equalities. Such systems can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-15 G. Li , B. S. Mordukhovich , T. T. A. Nghia , T. S. Pham

Constrained optimization problems exist in many domains of science, such as thermodynamics, mechanics, economics, etc. These problems are classically solved with the help of the Lagrange multipliers and the Lagrangian function. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Cyril Cayron

A step-search sequential quadratic programming method is proposed for solving nonlinear equality constrained stochastic optimization problems. It is assumed that constraint function values and derivatives are available, but only stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Albert S. Berahas , Miaolan Xie , Baoyu Zhou

We consider regularization of non-convex optimization problems involving a non-linear least-squares objective. By adding an auxiliary set of variables, we introduce a novel regularization framework whose corresponding objective function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Rixon Crane , Fred Roosta

Building on results of Arthur and Mok, we extend to (finite volume) complex and quaternionic hyperbolic manifolds the results of arXiv:1004.1085. For the spherical spectrum our results are optimal. Finally, as an application we prove a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Nicolas Bergeron , Laurent Clozel

We derive quantitative volume constraints for sampling measures $\mu_t$ on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ that satisfy Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund inequalities of order $t$. Using precise localization estimates for Jacobi polynomials, we obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Martin Ehler , Karlheinz Gröchenig

We propose and analyze a randomized zeroth-order approach based on approximating the exact gradient byfinite differences computed in a set of orthogonal random directions that changes with each iteration. A number ofpreviously proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 David Kozak , Cesare Molinari , Lorenzo Rosasco , Luis Tenorio , Silvia Villa

This paper is concerned with the inverse spectral problem for the third-order differential equation with distribution coefficient. The inverse problem consists in the recovery of the differential expression coefficients from the spectral…

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