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Efforts to achieve better accuracy in numerical relativity have so far focused either on implementing second order accurate adaptive mesh refinement or on defining higher order accurate differences and update schemes. Here, we argue for the…

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Highly oscillatory differential equations, commonly encountered in multi-scale problems, are often too complex to solve analytically. However, several numerical methods have been developed to approximate their solutions. Although these…

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This paper presents a method to generate valid high order meshes with optimized geometrical accuracy. The high order meshing procedure starts with a linear mesh, that is subsequently curved without taking care of the validity of the high…

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We derive methods to compute higher order differentials (Hessians and Hessian-vector products) of the rendering operator. Our approach is based on importance sampling of a convolution that represents the differentials of rendering…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zican Wang , Michael Fischer , Tobias Ritschel

In this Thesis we develop the geometric formulations for higher-order autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems, and second-order field theories. In all cases, the physical information of the system is given in terms of a Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez

A general conversion strategy by involving a shifted parameter $\theta$ is proposed to construct high-order accuracy difference formulas for fractional calculus operators. By converting the second-order backward difference formula with such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Baoli Yin , Guoyu Zhang , Yang Liu , Hong Li

We discuss the role of automatic differentiation tools in optimization software. We emphasize issues that are important to large-scale optimization and that have proved useful in the installation of nonlinear solvers in the NEOS Server. Our…

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Algorithmic discrimination is an important aspect when data is used for predictive purposes. This paper analyzes the relationships between discrimination and classification, data set partitioning, and decision models, as well as…

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Uncertainty is unavoidable in modeling dynamical systems and it may be represented mathematically by differential inclusions. In the past, we proposed an algorithm to compute validated solutions of differential inclusions; here we provide…

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This article introduces the groundbreaking concept of the financial differential machine learning algorithm through a rigorous mathematical framework. Diverging from existing literature on financial machine learning, the work highlights the…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-05-03 Pedro Duarte Gomes

Gradient-descent based iterative algorithms pervade a variety of problems in estimation, prediction, learning, control, and optimization. Recently iterative algorithms based on higher-order information have been explored in an attempt to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Spencer McDonald , Yingnan Cui , Joseph E. Gaudio , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

A development of an inverse first-order divided difference operator for functions of several variables is presented. Two generalized derivative-free algorithms builded up from Ostrowski's method for solving systems of nonlinear equations…

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AI and machine learning based approaches are becoming ubiquitous in almost all engineering fields. Control engineering cannot escape this trend. In this paper, we explore how AI tools can be useful in control applications. The core tool we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Ion Matei , Raj Minhas , Johan de Kleer , Alexander Felman

We construct new, efficient, and accurate high-order finite differencing operators which satisfy summation by parts. Since these operators are not uniquely defined, we consider several optimization criteria: minimizing the bandwidth, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Diener , Ernst Nils Dorband , Erik Schnetter , Manuel Tiglio

Smooth parametrization consists in a subdivision of the mathematical objects under consideration into simple pieces, and then parametric representation of each piece, while keeping control of high order derivatives. The main goal of the…

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Second-order superintegrable systems in dimensions two and three are essentially classified. With increasing dimension, however, the non-linear partial differential equations employed in current methods become unmanageable. Here we propose…

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We investigate a famous decision problem in automata theory: separation. Given a class of language C, the separation problem for C takes as input two regular languages and asks whether there exists a third one which belongs to C, includes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Thomas Place

We review the theory of first BGG operators and study how to approach them and find their solution on homogeneous geometries. We provide many new examples of parabolic geometries that admit solutions of first BGG operators with many…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Jan Gregorovič , Lenka Zalabová

This article explores an algebraic-recursive approach to construct differential operators that commute with a central operator $\hat{H}$ in quantum mechanics. Starting from the Schr\"odinger equation for a free particle, the work derives…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Enrique Casanova , Melvin Arias

In this work, we develop a fully implicit Hybrid High-Order algorithm for the Cahn-Hilliard problem in mixed form. The space discretization hinges on local reconstruction operators from hybrid polynomial unknowns at elements and faces. The…

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