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We show that various actions of topological conformal theories that were suggested recentely are particular cases of a general action. We prove the invariance of these models under transformations generated by nilpotent fermionic generators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Sonnenschein , S. Yankielowicz

We study topological properties of random closed curves on an orientable surface $S$ of negative Euler characteristic. Letting $\gamma_{n}$ denote the conjugacy class of the $n^{th}$ step of a simple random walk on the Cayley graph driven…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Tarik Aougab , Jonah Gaster

Our universe is homogeneous and isotropic, and its perturbations obey translation and rotation symmetry. In this work we develop Translation and Rotation Equivariant Normalizing Flow (TRENF), a generative Normalizing Flow (NF) model which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Biwei Dai , Uros Seljak

We investigate the global structure of topological defects which wrap a submanifold $F\subset M$ in a quantum field theory defined on a closed manifold $M$. The Pontryagin-Thom construction oversees the interplay between the global…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Arun Debray , Weicheng Ye , Matthew Yu

Gaussian Markov random fields (GMRFs) are useful in a broad range of applications. In this paper we tackle the problem of learning a sparse GMRF in a high-dimensional space. Our approach uses the l1-norm as a regularization on the inverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-18 John Duchi , Stephen Gould , Daphne Koller

Let M be a possibly non compact smooth manifold. We study genericity in the C^k-topology (3<=k<=+infty) of nondegeneracy properties of semi-Riemannian geodesic flows on M. Namely, we prove a new version of the Bumpy Metric Theorem for a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-31 Renato G. Bettiol

A covariance graph is an undirected graph associated with a multivariate probability distribution of a given random vector where each vertex represents each of the different components of the random vector and where the absence of an edge…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-15 Dhafer Malouche , Bala Rajaratnam

We develop a method for the random sampling of (multimode) Gaussian states in terms of their covariance matrix, which we refer to as a random quantum covariance matrix (RQCM). We analyze the distribution of marginals and demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Leevi Leppäjärvi , Ion Nechita , Ritabrata Sengupta

For each arbitrary finite group $G$, we consider a suitable notion of Gromov Hausdorff distance between compact $G$ metric spaces and derive lower bounds based on equivariant topology methods. As applications, we prove equivariant rigidity…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Sunhyuk Lim , Facundo Memoli

Gaussian distributions are plentiful in applications dealing in uncertainty quantification and diffusivity. They furthermore stand as important special cases for frameworks providing geometries for probability measures, as the resulting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-08 Anton Mallasto , Augusto Gerolin , Hà Quang Minh

Let $X= \{X(t), t \in \mathbb R^N\}$ be a centered Gaussian random field with values in $\mathbb R^d$ satisfying certain conditions and let $F \subset \mathbb R^d$ be a Borel set. In our main theorem, we provide a sufficient condition for…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Cheuk Yin Lee , Jian Song , Yimin Xiao , Wangjun Yuan

Cosmological models that are locally consistent with general relativity and the standard model in which an object transported around the universe undergoes P, C and CP transformations, are constructed. This leads to generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jeeva Anandan

Rahimi and Recht (2007) introduced the idea of decomposing positive definite shift-invariant kernels by randomly sampling from their spectral distribution for machine learning applications. This famous technique, known as Random Fourier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nicolas Langrené , Xavier Warin , Pierre Gruet

We describe the multifractal nature of random weak Gibbs measures on some class of attractors associated with $C^1$ random dynamics semi-conjugate to a random subshift of finite type. This includes the validity of the multifractal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Zhihui Yuan

The present paper mainly presents, for example, explicit classifications of compact smooth manifolds having non-empty boundaries and simple structures where the dimensions are general. Studies of this type is fundamental and important. They…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Naoki Kitazawa

The paper contains results in three areas: First we present a general estimate for tail probabilities of Gaussian quadratic forms with known expectation and variance. Thereafter we analyze the distribution of norms of complex Gaussian…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Georg Berschneider , Björn Böttcher

We study the energy landscape of a model of a single particle on a random potential, that is, we investigate the topology of level sets of smooth random fields on $\mathbb R^{N}$ of the form $X_N(x) +\frac\mu2 \|x\|^2,$ where $X_{N}$ is a…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Antonio Auffinger , Qiang Zeng

Boundary constraints in physical, environmental and engineering models restrict smooth states such as temperature to follow known physical laws at the edges of their spatio-temporal domain. Examples include fixed-state or fixed-derivative…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-05 Yue Ma , Oksana A. Chkrebtii , Stephen R. Niezgoda

Quadratic variations of Gaussian processes play important role in both stochastic analysis and in applications such as estimation of model parameters, and for this reason the topic has been extensively studied in the literature. In this…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-06 Lauri Viitasaari

In this thesis we analyze a very simple model of two dimensional quantum gravity based on causal dynamical triangulations (CDT). We present an exactly solvable model which indicates that it is possible to incorporate spatial topology…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-10-07 Willem Westra