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This paper illustrates the utility of the heat kernel on $\mathbb{Z}$ as the discrete analogue of the Gaussian density function. It is the two-variable function $K_{\mathbb{Z}}(t,x)=e^{-2t}I_{x}(2t)$ involving a Bessel function and…

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Quantum systems typically reach thermal equilibrium rather quickly when coupled to a thermal environment. The usual way of bounding the speed of this process is by estimating the spectral gap of the dissipative generator. However the gap,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Jan Kochanowski , Alvaro M. Alhambra , Angela Capel , Cambyse Rouzé

Spatial fields in the Earth and environmental sciences are often available at multiple scales or resolutions. While coarse-scale data (e.g., from global circulation models) are often abundant, they lack the local detail provided by…

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This article focuses on estimating distribution elements over a high-dimensional binary hypercube from multivariate binary data. A popular approach to this problem, optimizing Walsh basis coefficients, is made more interpretable by an…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-12 Arthur C. Campello

Understanding 4D point cloud videos is essential for enabling intelligent agents to perceive dynamic environments. However, temporal scale bias across varying frame rates and distributional uncertainty in irregular point clouds make it…

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We consider the propagation of flexural waves across a nearly flat, thin membrane, whose stress-free state is curved. The stress-free configuration is specified by a quenched height field, whose Fourier components are drawn from a Gaussian…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-05-19 Jonathan Kernes , Alex J. Levine

The aim of this article is to establish two-sided Gaussian bounds for the heat kernels on the unit ball and simplex in $\mathbb{R}^n$, and in particular on the interval, generated by classical differential operators whose eigenfunctions are…

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We derive explicitly the adapted $2$-Wasserstein distance between non-degenerate Gaussian distributions on $\mathbb{R}^N$ and characterize the optimal bicausal coupling(s). This leads to an adapted version of the Bures-Wasserstein distance…

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Focusing inversion of potential field data for the recovery of sparse subsurface structures from surface measurement data on a uniform grid is discussed. For the uniform grid the model sensitivity matrices exhibit block Toeplitz Toeplitz…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-08-16 Rosemary A. Renaut , Jarom D. Hogue , Saeed Vatankhah

We propose a discrete approach for approximating solutions to the prescribed Gaussian curvature problem in two-dimensional manifolds, based on the notion of discrete conformality. Our approach provides an efficient numerical method to…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Ziran Liu , Tianqi Wu

In this article we investigate the effects of conformal transformations on kernel functions used in Support Vector Machines. Our focus lies in the task of text document categorization, which involves assigning each document to a particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ioana Rădulescu , Alexandra Băicoianu , Adela Mihai

Gaussian Process regression is a kernel method successfully adopted in many real-life applications. Recently, there is a growing interest on extending this method to non-Euclidean input spaces, like the one considered in this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Antonio Candelieri , Andrea Ponti , Francesco Archetti

We present a fast, direct and adaptive Poisson solver for complex two-dimensional geometries based on potential theory and fast multipole acceleration. More precisely, the solver relies on the standard decomposition of the solution as the…

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This work brings together two powerful concepts in Gaussian processes: the variational approach to sparse approximation and the spectral representation of Gaussian processes. This gives rise to an approximation that inherits the benefits of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 James Hensman , Nicolas Durrande , Arno Solin

We establish a duality for two factorization questions, one for general positive definite (p.d) kernels $K$, and the other for Gaussian processes, say $V$. The latter notion, for Gaussian processes is stated via Ito-integration. Our…

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This paper introduces a Bayesian inference framework for two-dimensional steady-state heat conduction, focusing on the estimation of unknown distributed heat sources in a thermally-conducting medium with uniform conductivity. The goal is to…

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For homogeneous initial conditions, Hartree (gaussian) dynamical approximations are known to have problems with thermalization, because of insufficient scattering. We attempt to improve on this by writing an arbitrary density matrix as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Salle , J. Smit , J. C. Vink

There are schemes for realizing different types of kernels by quantum states of light. It is particularly interesting to realize the Gaussian kernel due to its wider applicability. A multimode coherent state can generate the Gaussian kernel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Vivek Mehta , Utpal Roy

This paper introduces a directional multiscale algorithm for the two dimensional $N$-body problem of the Helmholtz kernel with applications to high frequency scattering. The algorithm follows the approach in [Engquist and Ying, SIAM Journal…

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