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Inspired by the recent development on calculating the free energy change via a relaxation process [Nat. Phys. 14, 842 (2018)], we investigate the role of heat released in an irreversible relaxation following a large perturbation. Utilizing…
In this paper we prove some integral estimates on the minimal growth of the positive part $u_+$ of subsolutions of quasilinear equations \[ \mathrm{div} A(x,u,\nabla u) = V|u|^{p-2}u \] on complete Riemannian manifolds $M$, in the…
Recently, a non-linear model of viscoelasticity based on Rational Extended Thermodynamics was proposed in [arXiv:2312.05116]. This theory extends the evolution of the viscous stress beyond the linear framework of the Maxwell model to the…
In stochastic optimization, particularly in evolutionary computation and reinforcement learning, the optimization of a function $f: \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ is often addressed through optimizing a so-called relaxation $\theta \in \Theta…
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We study low-energy expansion and high-energy expansion of reflection coefficients for one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation, from which expansions of the Green function can be obtained. Making use of the equivalent Fokker-Planck equation,…
The evolution of sub-spaces in the framework of gravity with higher derivatives is studied. Numerical solutions to exact differential equations are found. It is shown that the initial conditions play crucial role in the space dynamic.…
A simple relaxation function I(t/tauzero; alpha, beta) unifying the stretched exponential with the compressed hyperbola is obtained, and its properties studied. The scaling parameter tauzero has dimensions of time, whereas the…
Inverse problems are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Many of these are naturally formulated as a PDE-constrained optimization problem. These non-linear, large-scale, constrained optimization problems know many challenges, of which…
In this paper, we consider energy decay estimates for the following nonlinear evolution problem $$\begin{split} [P(u_t(t))]_t + A u(t) + B(t , x , u_t(t)) =0,\quad t\in J=(0,\infty), \end{split}$$ under suitable assumptions on the…
Under suitable growth and coercivity conditions on the nonlinear damping operator $g$ which ensure non-resonance, we estimate the ultimate bound of the energy of the general solution to the equation $\ddot{u}(t) + Au(t) +…
We prove compactness with respect to $\Gamma$-convergence for a general class of non-local energies modelled after the ones considered in [Gobbino, CPAM (1998)]. We give an integral representation result for the limits, which are free…
We consider the Wulff-type energy functional $$ \mathcal{W}_\Omega(u) := \int_\Omega B(H(\nabla u (x))) - F(u(x)) \, dx, $$ where $B$ is positive, monotone and convex, and $H$ is positive homogeneous of degree 1. The critical points of this…
We study the existence problem for positive solutions $u \in L^{r}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$, $0<r<\infty$, to the quasilinear elliptic equation \[ -\Delta_{p} u = \sigma u^{q} \quad \text{in} \;\; \mathbb{R}^n \] in the sub-natural growth case…
We compute the universal generic corrections to the power spectrum in slow-roll inflation due to unknown high-energy physics. We arrive at this result via a careful integrating out of massive fields in the "in-in" formalism yielding a…
We consider a semipositone problem involving the fractional $p$ Laplace operator of the form \begin{equation*} \begin{aligned} (-\Delta)_p^s u &=\mu( u^{r}-1) \text{ in } \Omega,\\ u &>0 \text{ in }\Omega,\\ u &=0 \text{ on }\Omega^{c},…
For general quadratically-constrained quadratic programming (QCQP), we propose a parabolic relaxation described with convex quadratic constraints. An interesting property of the parabolic relaxation is that the original non-convex feasible…
For various function spaces of the form gU or U+gV, U and V e.g. almost periodic functions AP, (bounded) uniformly continuous functions BUC, UC, g(t) = exp(it^2), their properties are discussed, especially a Loomis type condition (Delta)…
The convex restriction of the power flow feasible sets identifies the convex subset of power injections where the solution for power flow is guaranteed to exist and satisfy the operational constraints. In contrast to convex relaxations, the…
Let $\Omega$ be a domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 2$, and $1<p<\infty$. Fix $V\in L_{\mathrm{loc}}^\infty(\Omega)$. Consider the functional $Q$ and its G\^{a}teaux derivative $Q^\prime$ given by Q(u):=\frac{1}{p}\int_\Omega (|\nabla…