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The purpose of this work is to introduce and analyze a numerical scheme to efficiently solve boundary value problems involving the spectral fractional Laplacian. The approach is based on a reformulation of the problem posed on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dominik Meidner , Johannes Pfefferer , Klemens Schürholz , Boris Vexler

We outline necessary and sufficient condition to the existence of extrmas of a function on a self-similar set, and we describe discrete gradient algorithm to find the extrema.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Nizar Riane , Claire David

At the core of optimal control theory is the Pontryagin maximum principle - the celebrated first order necessary optimality condition - whose solutions are called extremals and which are obtained through a function called Hamiltonian, akin…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Delfim F. M. Torres

We prove optimality conditions for different variational functionals containing left and right Caputo fractional derivatives. A sufficient condition of minimization under an appropriate convexity assumption is given. An Euler-Lagrange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-10-06 Ricardo Almeida , Delfim F. M. Torres

We propose a novel distribution-free scheme to solve optimization problems where the goal is to minimize the expected value of a cost function subject to probabilistic constraints. Unlike standard sampling-based methods, our idea consists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Francesco Cordiano , Matin Jafarian , Bart De Schutter

In this paper, we discuss a new general formulation of fractional optimal control problems whose performance index is in the fractional integral form and the dynamics are given by a set of fractional differential equations in the Caputo…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-24 H. M. Ali , F. Lobo Pereira , S. M. A. Gama

This paper addresses both necessary and relevant sufficient extremum conditions for a variational problem defined by a smooth Lagrangian, involving higher derivatives of several variable vector valued functions. A general formulation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-28 Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou , Pascal Dkengne Sielenou

The multivariate extremal index function relates the asymptotic distribution of the vector of pointwise maxima of a multivariate stationary sequence to that of the independent sequence from the same stationary distribution. It also measures…

Applications · Statistics 2008-11-14 Christian Y. Robert

Fractional (or non-integer) differentiation is an important concept both from theoretical and applicational points of view. The study of problems of the calculus of variations with fractional derivatives is a rather recent subject, the main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-06-22 Gastao S. F. Frederico , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this work we obtain optimal majorants and minorants of exponential type for a wide class of radial functions on $\mathbb{R}^N$. These extremal functions minimize the $L^1(\mathbb{R}^N, |x|^{2\nu + 2 - N}dx)$-distance to the original…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Emanuel Carneiro , Friedrich Littmann

The aim of this study is to find the optimum of a linear fractional function over the efficient set of a multi-objective linear fractional integer program without generating all efficient solutions. By its nature, it is a global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Fatma Zohra Ouail , Mohamed El-Amine Chergui

We consider the representation of the value of an optimal stopping problem of a linear diffusion as an expected supremum of a known function. We establish an explicit integral representation of this function by utilizing the explicitly…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-08 Luis H. R. Alvarez E. , Pekka Matomäki

The evaluation of a matrix exponential function is a classic problem of computational linear algebra. Many different methods have been employed for its numerical evaluation [Moler C and van Loan C 1978 SIAM Review 20 4], none of which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-18 D H Gebremedhin , C A Weatherford , X Zhang , A Wynn , G Tanaka

We find the exact upper estimate for the upper density of zeros of entire functions of exponential type whose indicator diagram is contained in a given interval.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Alexandre Eremenko , Peter Yuditskii

We propose and study a novel stochastic inertial primal-dual approach to solve composite optimization problems. These latter problems arise naturally when learning with penalized regularization schemes. Our analysis provide convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa , Bang Cong Vu

This work proposes a conformable fractional predictor-corrector algorithm for solving conformable fractional differential equations. Fractional calculus is finding applications in various scientific fields, but existing numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Mohamed Echchehira , Youness Assebbane , Mustapha Atraoui , Mohamed Bouaouid

The extremal functional method determines approximate solutions to the constraints of crossing symmetry, which saturate bounds on the space of unitary CFTs. We show that such solutions are characterized by extremality conditions, which may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-27 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos

The study of fractional variational problems in terms of a combined fractional Caputo derivative is introduced. Necessary optimality conditions of Euler-Lagrange type for the basic, isoperimetric, and Lagrange variational problems are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-16 Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

We solve an extremal problem that arises in the study of the refractive indices of passive metamaterials. The problem concerns Hermitian functions in $H^2$ of the upper half-plane, i.e., $H^2$ functions satisfying $f(-x)=\bar{f(x)}$. An…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kristian Seip , Johannes Skaar

We propose an algorithm for reduction of the problem of maximization of fraction of two functionals to the equivalent procedure including maximization of difference between the functionals and the solution of an equation of scalar unknown.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-20 Ivan P Smirnov