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Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Filippo Ascolani , Antonio Lijoi , Giovanni Rebaudo , Giacomo Zanella

We introduce a family of hybrid discretisations for the numerical approximation of optimal control problems governed by the equations of immiscible displacement in porous media. The proposed schemes are based on mixed and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-02 S. Kumar , R. Ruiz Baier , R. Sandilya

I discuss models for a continuum directed random polymer in a disordered environment in which the polymer lives on a fractal called the \textit{diamond hierarchical lattice}, a self-similar metric space forming a network of interweaving…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Jeremy Clark

We propose a new concept for the regularization and discretization of transfer and Koopman operators in dynamical systems. Our approach is based on the entropically regularized optimal transport between two probability measures. In…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Oliver Junge , Daniel Matthes , Bernhard Schmitzer

A certain class of directed metric graphs is considered. Asymptotics for a number of possible endpoints of a random walk at large times is found.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Vsevolod Chernyshev , Anton Tolchennikov

We study the spectral measure of large Euclidean random matrices. The entries of these matrices are determined by the relative position of $n$ random points in a compact set $\Omega_n$ of $\R^d$. Under various assumptions we establish the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-12 Charles Bordenave

We study the continuity equation on the metric measure space $(\mathcal{P}_p(X),W_p,Q)$, when $X$ is either the Euclidean space or a compact, oriented, and boundaryless Riemannian manifold, for some suitable reference measure $Q \in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Alessandro Pinzi

Let P be a set of points in R^d, and let M be a function that maps any subset of P to a positive real number. We examine the problem of computing the exact mean and variance of M when a subset of points in P is selected according to a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Frank Staals , Constantinos Tsirogiannis

The Continuous p-Dispersion Problem (CpDP) with boundary constraints asks for the placement of a fixed number of points in a compact subset of Euclidean space such that the minimum distance between any two points, as well as the points and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Sanjay Manoj , Melkior Ornik

We study close-packed dimers on the quasiperiodic Ammann-Beenker (AB) graph, that was recently shown to have the unusual feature that hard-core dimer constraints are exactly reproduced at successive discrete length scales. This observation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-17 Sounak Biswas , S. A. Parameswaran

We introduce a weak asymptotic version of nonlinear contraction, termed \emph{asymptotic pointwise contraction}. For a mapping on a metric space, this notion requires the existence of a sequence of functions that dominate the distances…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Jie Shi

We introduce a discretization scheme for continuous localized frames using quasi-Monte Carlo integration and discrepancy theory. By generalizing classical concepts, we define a discrepancy measure on the entire phase space $\mathbb{R}^2$…

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A quantum trajectory is the natural response of a quantum system subject to external perturbations due to continuous indirect measurement. We completely characterize the asymptotic behavior of continuously monitored quantum systems in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Finn Schmolke

Accurate approximation of probability measures is essential in numerical applications. This paper explores the quantization of probability measures using the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) distance as a guiding metric. We first investigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Zahra Mehraban , Alois Pichler

We develop a new computational tool and framework for characterizing the scattering of photons by energy-nonconserving Hamiltonians into unidirectional (chiral) waveguides, for example, with coherent pulsed excitation. The temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Kevin A. Fischer , Rahul Trivedi , Vinay Ramasesh , Irfan Siddiqi , Jelena Vučković

We study the fluctuations of the directed polymer in 1+1 dimensions in a Gaussian random environment with a finite correlation length {\xi} and at finite temperature. We address the correspondence between the geometrical transverse…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-03 Elisabeth Agoritsas , Sebastian Bustingorry , Vivien Lecomte , Gregory Schehr , Thierry Giamarchi

The one dimensional direct polymer in random media model is investigated using a variational approach in the replica space. We demonstrate numerically that the stable point is a maximum and the corresponding statistical properties for the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Pagnani

In this paper, we study a natural discretization of the smooth Gaussian curvature on surfaces, which is defined as the quotient of the angle defect and the area of a geodesic disk at a vertex of a polyhedral surface. It is proved that each…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

We establish a symmetry in a variety of integrable stochastic systems: Certain multi-point distributions of natural observables are unchanged under a shift of a subset of observation points. The property holds for stochastic vertex models,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Alexei Borodin , Vadim Gorin , Michael Wheeler