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We give a simplified presentation of the obstacle problem approach to stochastic homogenization for elliptic equations in nondivergence form. Our argument also applies to equations which depend on the gradient of the unknown function. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-24 Scott N. Armstrong , Charles K. Smart

We consider hypergraph visualizations that represent vertices as points in the plane and hyperedges as curves passing through the points of their incident vertices. Specifically, we consider several different variants of this problem by (a)…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Alexander Dobler , Stephen Kobourov , Debajyoti Mondal , Martin Nöllenburg

Finite obstruction sets for lower ideals in the minor order are guaranteed to exist by the Graph Minor Theorem. It has been known for several years that, in principle, obstruction sets can be mechanically computed for most natural lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Kevin Cattell , Michael J. Dinneen , Michael R. Fellows

We give an algorithm for approximating a given plane curve segment by a planar elastic curve. The method depends on an analytic representation of the space of elastic curve segments, together with a geometric method for obtaining a good…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-05 David Brander , Jens Gravesen , Toke Bjerge Nørbjerg

An obstacle representation of a plane graph G is V(G) together with a set of opaque polygonal obstacles such that G is the visibility graph on V(G) determined by the obstacles. We investigate the problem of computing an obstacle…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-08-15 Matthew P. Johnson , Deniz Sarioz

We prove existence of weak solutions to the obstacle problem for semilinear wave equations (including the fractional case) by using a suitable approximating scheme in the spirit of minimizing movements. This extends the results in [9],…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Mauro Bonafini , Van Phu Cuong Le , Matteo Novaga , Giandomenico Orlandi

Consider a Hamiltonian diffeomorphism $g$ on a surface. We describe several scenarios where a curve $L$ and its image $g(L)$ provide a simple evidence that $g$ is not autonomous.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Michael Khanevsky

A long standing open problem in extremal graph theory is to describe all graphs that maximize the number of induced copies of a path on four vertices. The character of the problem changes in the setting of oriented graphs, and becomes more…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-12 Ilkyoo Choi , Bernard Lidický , Florian Pfender

In this paper, we establish the existence, uniqueness and stability results for the obstacle problem associated with a degenerate nonlinear diffusion equation perturbed by conservative gradient noise. Our approach revolves round introducing…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Kai Du , Ruoyang Liu

Existence of solutions to an obstacle $p$-Laplacian problem exhibiting a singular, discontinuous reaction is proved. The reaction term may be discontinuous in a Lebesgue-negligible set. Moreover, solutions are shown to be locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Annamaria Barbagallo , Umberto Guarnotta

The presented material is devoted to the equivalent conversion from the vertex graphs to the edge graphs. We suggest that the proved theorems solve the problem of the isomorphism of graphs, the problem of the graph's enumeration with the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-10-22 Leonid Malinin , Natalia Malinina

This article introduces a new approach to discrete curvature based on the concept of effective resistances. We propose a curvature on the nodes and links of a graph and present the evidence for their interpretation as a curvature. Notably,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

This note summarizes the state of what is known about the tractability of the problem ModPath, which asks if an input undirected graph contains a simple st-path whose length satisfies modulo constraints. We also consider the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Antoine Amarilli

Given a graph $G$, an {\em obstacle representation} of $G$ is a set of points in the plane representing the vertices of $G$, together with a set of connected obstacles such that two vertices of $G$ are joined by an edge if and only if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-15 Padmini Mukkamala , János Pach , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

In this paper we study the continuous dependence with respect to obstacles for obstacle problems with measure data. This is deeply investigated introducing a suitable type of convergence, which gives stability under very general hypotheses.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paolo Dall'Aglio

We consider pure traction problems and we show that incompressible linearized elasticity can be obtained as variational limit of incompressible finite elasticity under suitable conditions on external loads.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-01 Edoardo Mainini , Danilo Percivale

We give existence and nonuniqueness results for simple planar curves with prescribed geodesic curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-27 Matthias Schneider

We prove explicit bounds on the number of lattice points on or near a convex curve in terms of geometric invariants such as length, curvature, and affine arclength. In several of our results we obtain the best possible constants. Our…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Ralph Howard , Ognian Trifonov

We establish the existence, uniqueness, and $W^{1,2,p}$-regularity of solutions to fully-nonlinear, parabolic obstacle problems when the obstacle is the pointwise supremum of functions in $W^{1,2,p}$ and the nonlinear operator is required…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Théo Durandard , Bruno Strulovici

We study the double obstacle problem for p-harmonic functions on arbitrary bounded nonopen sets E in quite general metric spaces. The Dirichlet and single obstacle problems are included as special cases. We obtain Adams' criterion for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Anders Björn , Jana Björn