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Divergence functions are interesting discrepancy measures. Even though they are not true distances, we can use them to measure how separated two points are. Curiously enough, when they are applied to random variables, they lead to a notion…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Henryk Gzyl

The aim of this paper is to present a survey of some recent results obtained in the study of spaces with asymmetric norm. The presentation follows the ideas from the theory of normed spaces (topology, continuous linear operators, continuous…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-14 S. Cobzaş

We define a class of divergences to measure differences between probability density functions in one-dimensional sample space. The construction is based on the convex function with the Jacobi operator of mapping function that pushforwards…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Wuchen Li

In this article a relation between curvature functionals for surfaces in the Euclidean space and area functionals in relative differential geometry will be given. Relative differential geometry can be described as the geometry of surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-22 Steven Verpoort

Divergence functions are measures of distance or dissimilarity between probability distributions that serve various purposes in statistics and applications. We propose decompositions of Wasserstein and Cram\'er distances$-$which compare two…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-08 Johannes Resin , Daniel Wolffram , Johannes Bracher , Timo Dimitriadis

We study differentiability properties of functions defined in the euclidean space in terms of a conical square function which is analogue to the classical square function introduced by Stein and Zygmund in the sixties. Pointwise…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Artur Nicolau

Differentiable structure ensures that many of the basics of classical convex analysis extend naturally from Euclidean space to Riemannian manifolds. Without such structure, however, extensions are more challenging. Nonetheless, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Adrian S. Lewis , Genaro López-Acedo , Adriana Nicolae

Conformal transformations of a Euclidean (complex) plane have some kind of completeness (sufficiency) for the solution of many mathematical and physical-mathematical problems formulated on this plane. There is no such completeness in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. I. Garas'ko

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

This paper is focused on $f$-divergences, consisting of three main contributions. The first one introduces integral representations of a general $f$-divergence by means of the relative information spectrum. The second part provides a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Igal Sason

This paper presents a general study of one-dimensional differentiability for functionals defined on convex domains that are not necessarily open. The local approximation is carried out using affine functionals, as opposed to linear…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Simone Cerreia-Vioglio , Fabio Maccheroni , Massimo Marinacci , Luigi Montrucchio , Lorenzo Stanca

This paper investigates spaces equipped with a family of metric-like functions satisfying certain axioms. These functions provide a unified framework for defining topology, uniformity, and diffeology. The framework is based on a family of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Masaki Taho

We show that affine coordinate subspaces of dimension at least two in Euclidean space are of Khintchine type for divergence. For affine coordinate subspaces of dimension one, we prove a result which depends on the dual Diophantine type of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Felipe A. Ramírez , David S. Simmons , Fabian Süess

In this article, we will consider second order uniformly elliptic operators of divergence form defined on R^n with measurable coefficients. Mainly, we will give estimates on the dimension of space of solutions that grow at most polynomially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Peter Li , Jiaping Wang

Associated to any affine space A endowed with a metric structure of arbitrary signature we consider the space of affine functionals operating on the space of quadratic functions of A. On this functional space we characterize a symmetric…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Ana Casimiro , Cesar Rodrigo

Given a function $f$ defined on a nonempty and convex subset of the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, we prove that if $f$ is bounded from below and it satisfies a convexity-type functional inequality with infinite convex combinations, then…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Matyas Barczy , Zsolt Páles

Divergences often play important roles for study in information science so that it is indispensable to investigate their fundamental properties. There is also a mathematical significance of such results. In this paper, we introduce some…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-19 S. Furuichi , F. -C. Mitroi

The discrepancy function measures the deviation of the empirical distribution of a point set in $[0,1]^d$ from the uniform distribution. In this paper, we study the classical discrepancy function with respect to the BMO and exponential…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-25 Josef Dick , Aicke Hinrichs , Lev Markhasin , Friedrich Pillichshammer

We initiate a systematic study of intrinsic dimensional versions of classical functional inequalities which capture refined properties of the underlying objects. We focus on model spaces: Euclidean space, Hamming cube, and manifolds of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-28 Alexandros Eskenazis , Yair Shenfeld

This paper investigates general and generalized differentiation properties of the optimal value function associated with perturbed optimization problems. Fundamental results on nearly convex sets and functions in infinite-dimensional spaces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-24 V. S. T. Long , B. S. Mordukhovich , N. M. Nam , L. White