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A variational principle for determining unstable periodic orbits of flows as well as unstable spatio-temporally periodic solutions of extended systems is proposed and implemented. An initial loop approximating a periodic solution is evolved…
Variational methods are employed in situations where exact Bayesian inference becomes intractable due to the difficulty in performing certain integrals. Typically, variational methods postulate a tractable posterior and formulate a lower…
We report a new analytical method for exact solution of homogeneous linear ordinary differential equations with arbitrary order and variable coefficients. The method is based on the definition of jump transfer matrices and their extension…
A simple and efficient formula is proposed for varying Abelian integrals (including their periods) under variation of the generators of the classical Schottky group representing a Riemann surface.
We introduce a class of unconditionally energy stable, high order accurate schemes for gradient flows in a very general setting. The new schemes are a high order analogue of the minimizing movements approach for generating a time discrete…
We study the asymptotic behaviour of families of gradient flows in a general metric setting, when the metric-dissipation potentials degenerate in the limit to a dissipation with linear growth. We present a general variational definition of…
In the paper, we are concerned with degenerate stochastic differential equations with jumps. Firstly, we establish two support theorems for the solutions of the degenerate stochastic equations, under different (sufficient) conditions.…
Given a differential equation on a smooth $p$-adic analytic curve, one may construct a new one by pushing forward by an \'etale morphism. The main result of the paper provides an explicit formula that relates the radii of convergence of the…
This paper studies formulations of second-order elliptic partial differential equations in nondivergence form on convex domains as equivalent variational problems. The first formulation is that of Smears \& S\"uli [SIAM J.\ Numer.\ Anal.\…
Consider degenerations of Abelian differentials with prescribed number and multiplicity of zeros and poles. Motivated by the theory of limit linear series, we define twisted canonical divisors on pointed nodal curves to study degenerate…
The problem of the construction of strong approximations with a given order of convergence for jump-diffusion equations is studied. General approximation schemes are constructed for L\'evy type stochastic differential equation. In…
In this paper, we study the convergence for solutions to a sequence of (possibly degenerate) stochastic differential equations with jumps, when the coefficients converge in some appropriate sense. Our main tools are the superposition…
We derive a variational model to fit a composite B\'ezier curve to a set of data points on a Riemannian manifold. The resulting curve is obtained in such a way that its mean squared acceleration is minimal in addition to remaining close the…
In this paper, a new variational formulation based on discontinuous Galerkin technique for a reaction-diffusion problem is introduced, and the discontinuous Galerkin technique of this work is different from the general discontinuous…
Using the embedding of the moduli space of generalized GL(n) Hitchin's spectral covers to the moduli space of meromorphic abelian differentials we study the variational formulae of the period matrix, the canonical bidifferential, the prime…
A geometric setup for constrained variational calculus is presented. The analysis deals with the study of the extremals of an action functional defined on piecewise differentiable curves, subject to differentiable, non-holonomic…
In this paper, we propose a regularized auxiliary variable (RAV) approach and construct accurate and robust time-discrete schemes for a large class of gradient flows. By introducing an auxiliary variable $r=0$ and constructing an auxiliary…
Starting from the classic contraction mapping principle, we establish a general, flexible, variational setting that turns out to be applicable to many situations of existence in Differential Equations. We show its potentiality with some…
Some intrinsic tools from the formal theory of variational equations are being demonstrated at work in application to one concrete example of the third-order evolution equation of free relativistic top in three-dimensional space-time. The…
The asymptotic variance is an important criterion to evaluate the performance of Markov chains, especially for the central limit theorems. We give the variational formulas for the asymptotic variance of discrete-time (non-reversible) Markov…