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The present article proposes a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation in the half-space. We show an analog of the Lanford's theorem in this domain, with specular reflection boundary condition, stating the convergence in the low…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Théophile Dolmaire

The paper extends the widely used in optimisation theory decoupling techniques to infinite collections of functions. Extended concepts of uniform lower semicontinuity and firm uniform lower semicontinuity are discussed. The main theorems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Abderrahim Hantoute , Alexander Y. Kruger , Marco A. Lopez

In the contest of optimal control problems, regularity results for optima are known when addressing fiber-strictly convex Lagrangian. For infinite time horizons, or for settings with infinite dimensional dynamics, the equivalence between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Vincenzo Basco

Smoothness and low dimensional structures play central roles in improving generalization and stability in learning and statistics. This work combines techniques from semi-infinite constrained learning and manifold regularization to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Juan Cervino , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Benjamin D. Haeffele , Rene Vidal , Alejandro Ribeiro

Let $M$ be a smooth connected and complete manifold of dimension $n$, and $\Delta$ be a smooth nonholonomic distribution of rank $m\leq n$ on $M$. We prove that, if there exists a smooth Riemannian metric on $\Delta$ for which no nontrivial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-08-24 Ludovic Rifford , Emmanuel Trélat

In this note we consider the Liouville type theorem for a properly immersed submanifold $M$ in a complete Riemmanian manifold $N$. Assume that the sectional curvature $K^N$ of $N$ satisfies…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Yong Luo

We introduce the manifold density function, which is an intrinsic method to validate manifold learning techniques. Our approach adapts and extends Ripley's $K$-function, and categorizes in an unsupervised setting the extent to which an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Benjamin Holmgren , Eli Quist , Jordan Schupbach , Brittany Terese Fasy , Bastian Rieck

The problem of minimization of the sum of two convex functions has various theoretical and real-world applications. One of the popular methods for solving this problem is the proximal gradient method (proximal forward-backward algorithm). A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Daniel Reem , Simeon Reich , Alvaro De Pierro

We prove a reduction theorem for the tangent bundle of a Poisson manifold $(M, \pi)$ endowed with a pre-Hamiltonian action of a Poisson Lie group $(G, \pi_G)$. In the special case of a Hamiltonian action of a Lie group, we are able to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Antonio De Nicola , Chiara Esposito

We consider solutions of Lagrangian variational problems with linear constraints on the derivative. These solutions are given by curves $\gamma$ in a differentiable manifold $M$ that are everywhere tangent to a smooth distribution $\mathcal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paolo Piccione , Daniel V. Tausk

Let $ v$ be a smooth vector field on the plane, that is a map from the plane to the unit circle. We study sufficient conditions for the boundedness of the Hilbert transform \operatorname H_{v, \epsilon}f(x) := \text{p.v.}\int_{-\epsilon}^…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-09-07 Michael Lacey , Xiaochun Li

The purpose of this note is to provide an optimal rate of convergence in the vanishing viscosity regime for first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations with purely quadratic Hamiltonian. We show that for a globally Lipschitz-continuous terminal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Samuel Daudin

Let us consider a Riemannian manifold $M$ (either separable or non-separable). We prove that, for every $\epsilon>0$, every Lipschitz function $f:M\rightarrow\mathbb R$ can be uniformly approximated by a Lipschitz, $C^1$-smooth function $g$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-12-30 M. Jimenez-Sevilla , L. Sanchez-Gonzalez

The aim of this note is to give a geometric insight into the classical second order optimality conditions for equality-constrained minimization problem. We show that the Hessian's positivity of the Lagrangian function associated to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Luca Amodei

We consider the simplest optimal control problem with one nonregular mixed inequality constraint, i.e. when its gradient in the control can vanish on the zero surface. Using the Dubovitskii--Milyutin theorem on the approximate separation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-04 A. V. Dmitruk , N. P. Osmolovskii

We study a generalization of the manifold-valued Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) model, which involves an initial datum $f$ mapping from a curved compact surface with smooth boundary to a complete, connected and smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Salvador Moll , Vicent Pallardó-Julià

Given a C2-domain with compact boundary in an arbitrary complete Riemannian manifold, we search for smallness conditions on the boundary data for which the Dirichlet problem for the minimal hypersurface equation is solvable. We obtain an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Ari J. Aiolfi , Giovanni Nunes , Lisandra Sauer , Rodrigo B. Soares

Given a porous compact $K \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and a continuity modulus $\omega$, we prove a quantitative Jackson-Bernstein type theorem on harmonic approximation. That is, a function $f$ belongs to the class $\mathrm{Lip}_{\omega}(K)$ if…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Nikolai A. Shirokov , Andrei V. Vasin

We consider the area functional for t-graphs in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group and study minimizers of the associated Dirichlet problem. We prove that, under a bounded slope condition on the boundary datum, there exists a unique…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Andrea Pinamonti , Francesco Serra Cassano , Giulia Treu , Davide Vittone

An exact result for the reduced density matrix on a finite interval for a $1+1$ dimensional free real scalar field in the ground state is presented. In the massless case, the Williamson decomposition of the appearing kernels is explicitly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Mikhail A. Baranov