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A Fenchel-Moreau type duality for proper convex and lower semi-continuous functions $f\colon X\to \overline{L^0}$ is established where $(X,Y,\langle \cdot,\cdot \rangle)$ is a dual pair of Banach spaces and $\overline{L^0}$ is the set of…

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A key idea in convex optimization theory is to use well-structured affine functions to approximate general functions, leading to impactful developments in conjugate functions and convex duality theory. This raises the question: what are the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Ningji Wei

In the context of field theory two elements seem to be necessary to search for strong-weak coupling duality. First, a gauge theory formulation and second, supersymmetry. For gravitation these two elements are present in MacDowell-Mansouri…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Garcia-Compean , A. Nieto , O. Obregon , C. Ramirez

In this paper, we exploit the so-called value function reformulation of the bilevel optimization problem to develop duality results for the problem. Our approach builds on Fenchel-Lagrange-type duality to establish suitable results for the…

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We derive a convex optimization problem on a steady-state nonequilibrium network of biochemical reactions, with the property that energy conservation and the second law of thermodynamics both hold at the problem solution. This suggests a…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2011-09-20 Ronan M. T. Fleming , Christopher M. Maes , Michael A. Saunders , Yinyu Ye , Bernhard Ø. Palsson

In this paper I bring the recent philosophical literature on theoretical equivalence to bear on dualities in physics. Focusing on electromagnetic duality, which is a simple example of S-duality in string theory, I will show that the duality…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-11-20 James Owen Weatherall

Suplementary algoritm for optimizing technological parameters of soft magnetic compozities has been derived on the base of topological structure of the power loss characteristics. In optimization processes of magnitudes obeying scaling it…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-18 Krzysztof Zdzisław Sokalski , Bartosz Jankowski , Barbara Ślusarek

We study electric-magnetic duality rotations for noncommutative electromagnetism (NCEM). We express NCEM as a nonlinear commutative U(1) gauge theory and show that it is self-dual when the noncommutativity parameter \theta is light-like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Paolo Aschieri

This paper is concerned with the existence and uniqueness of the solution to a doubly nonlinear parabolic problem which arises directly from a circuit model of microwave heating. Beyond the relevance from a physical point of view, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Luca Scarpa

The self-dual condition, which ensures invariance under electromagnetic duality, manifests as a partial differential equation in nonlinear electromagnetism theories. The general solution to this equation is expressed in terms of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Hossein Babaei-Aghbolagh , Komeil Babaei Velni , Song He , Zahra Pezhman

We elaborate on the duality-symmetric nonlinear electrodynamics in a new formulation with auxiliary tensor fields. The Maxwell field strength appears only in bilinear terms of the corresponding generic Lagrangian, while the self-interaction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 E. A. Ivanov , B. M. Zupnik

In this paper, we establish an angle duality and a gap principle for convex combinations of incomplete polynomials, extending two results of Ge and Gonek in [IMRN, 2024].Our approach is geometric: we introduce an ``angle gain'' mechanism…

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We discuss under what conditions the duality between electric and magnetic fields is a valid symmetry of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. It is shown that Maxwell's equations in the absence of free charges satisfy duality invariance on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-14 Stefan Yoshi Buhmann , Stefan Scheel

In this article firstly we develop a new proof for global existence of minimizers for the Kirchhoff-Love plate model. We also present a duality principle and relating sufficient optimality conditions for such a variational plate model. In a…

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For D=4 theories of a single U(1) gauge field strength coupled to gravity and matters, we show that the electric-magnetic duality can be formulated as an invariance of the actions. The symmetry is associated with duality rotation acting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuji Igarashi , Katsumi Itoh , Kiyoshi Kamimura

The Legendre transform (LET) is a product of a general duality principle: any smooth curve is, on the one hand, a locus of pairs, which satisfy the given equation and, on the other hand, an envelope of a family of its tangent lines. An…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Roman Polyak

The alternating minimization (AM) method is a fundamental method for minimizing convex functions whose variable consists of two blocks. How to efficiently solve each subproblems when applying the AM method is the most concerned task. In…

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This paper extends, to a class of systems of semi-linear hyperbolic second order PDEs in three variables, the geometric study of a single nonlinear hyperbolic PDE in the plane as presented in [Anderson I.M., Kamran N., Duke Math. J. 87…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Sara Froehlich

We derive the asymptotic symmetries of the manifestly duality invariant formulation of electromagnetism in Minkoswki space. We show that the action is invariant under two algebras of angle-dependent $u(1)$ transformations, one electric and…

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