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The question of optimally approximating an arbitrary probability measure in the Wasserstein distance by a discrete one with uniform weights is considered. Estimates are obtained for the optimal approximation distance, with an explicit rate…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Benjamin Seeger

When using a finite difference method to solve an initial--boundary--value problem, the truncation error is often of lower order at a few grid points near boundaries than in the interior. Normal mode analysis is a powerful tool to analyze…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Siyang Wang , Anna Nissen , Gunilla Kreiss

The paper considers an Euler discretization based numerical scheme for approximating functionals of invariant distribution of an ergodic diffusion. Convergence of the numerical scheme is shown for suitably chosen discretization step, and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Arnab Ganguly , P. Sundar

We consider a general linear parabolic problem with extended time boundary conditions (including initial value problems and periodic ones), and approximate it by the implicit Euler scheme in time and the Gradient Discretisation method in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-22 J Droniou , R Eymard , T Gallouët , C Guichard , R Herbin

In the uniformity testing task, an algorithm is provided with samples from an unknown probability distribution over a (known) finite domain, and must decide whether it is the uniform distribution, or, alternatively, if its total variation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Guy Blanc , Clément L. Canonne , Erik Waingarten

When applying the finite-differences method to numerically solve the one-dimensional diffusion equation, one must choose discretization steps $\Delta x$, $\Delta t$ in space and time, respectively. By applying large-deviation theory on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-09 Naftali R. Smith

We consider systematic numerical approximation of a viscoelastic phase separation model that describes the demixing of a polymer solvent mixture. An unconditionally stable discretisation method is proposed based on a finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

Metric embeddings traditionally study how to map $n$ items to a target metric space such that distance lengths are not heavily distorted; but what if we only care to preserve the relative order of the distances (and not their length)? In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Vaggos Chatziafratis , Piotr Indyk

Partial differential equations (PDEs) with uncertain or random inputs have been considered in many studies of uncertainty quantification. In forward uncertainty quantification, one is interested in analyzing the stochastic response of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Philipp A. Guth , Vesa Kaarnioja

We study the optimal transport problem for $d>2$ discrete measures. This is a linear programming problem on $d$-tensors. It gives a way to compute a "distance" between two sets of discrete measures. We introduce an entropic regularization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Shmuel Friedland

This paper deals with bounding the error on the estimation of quantities of interest obtained by finite element and domain decomposition methods. The proposed bounds are written in order to separate the two errors involved in the resolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 Valentine Rey , Pierre Gosselet , Christian Rey

It is natural to expect the following loosely stated approximation principle to hold: a numerical approximation solution should be in some sense as smooth as its target exact solution in order to have optimal convergence. For piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-25 So-Hsiang Chou

We study the problem of finding a triangulation T of a planar point set S such as to minimize the expected distance between two points x and y chosen uniformly at random from S. By distance we mean the length of the shortest path between x…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Laszlo Kozma

We propose an extrapolation technique that allows accuracy improvement of the discrete dipole approximation computations. The performance of this technique was studied empirically based on extensive simulations for 5 test cases using many…

Optics · Physics 2008-07-29 Maxim A. Yurkin , Valeri P. Maltsev , Alfons G. Hoekstra

The problem of characterising the accuracy of, and disturbance caused by a joint measurement of position and momentum is investigated. In a previous paper the problem was discussed in the context of the unbiased measurements considered by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Appleby

Metric magnitude is a measure of the "size" of point clouds with many desirable geometric properties. It has been adapted to various mathematical contexts and recent work suggests that it can enhance machine learning and optimization…

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The method-of-moments implementation of the electric-field integral equation (EFIE) yields many code-verification challenges due to the various sources of numerical error and their possible interactions. Matters are further complicated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Brian A. Freno , Neil R. Matula

An algorithm of searching a zero of an unknown undimensional function is considered, measured at a point x with some error. The step sizes are random positive values and are calculated according to the rule: if two consecutive iterations…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Alexander Plakhov , Pedro Cruz

Symmetry preserving difference schemes approximating second and third order ordinary differential equations are presented. They have the same three or four-dimensional symmetry groups as the original differential equations. The new…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Bourlioux , C Cyr-Gagnon , P Winternitz

In this paper we consider a fully third order nonlinear boundary value problem which is of great interest of many researchers. First we establish the existence, uniqueness of solution. Next, we propose simple iterative methods on both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Dang Quang A , Dang Quang Long