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A subclass of complex-valued close-to-convex harmonic functions that are univalent and sense-preserving in the open unit disc is investigated. The coefficient estimates, growth results, area theorem, boundary behavior, convolution and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-07-17 Sumit Nagpal , V. Ravichandran

We proposed an iterate scheme for solving convex-concave saddle-point problems associated with general convex-concave functions. We demonstrated that when our iterate scheme is applied to a special class of convex-concave functions, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Hui Ouyang

Composite minimization involves a collection of smooth functions which are aggregated in a nonsmooth manner. In the convex setting, we design an algorithm by linearizing each smooth component in accordance with its main curvature. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Jérôme Bolte , Zheng Chen , Edouard Pauwels

We study the prime pair counting functions $\pi_{2k}(x),$ and their averages over $2k.$ We show that good results can be achieved with relatively little effort by considering averages. We prove an asymptotic relation for longer averages of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Jori Merikoski

The difference-of-convex (DC) program is an important model in nonconvex optimization due to its structure, which encompasses a wide range of practical applications. In this paper, we aim to tackle a generalized class of DC programs, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Tan Nhat Pham , Minh N. Dao , Nima Amjady , Rakibuzzaman Shah

Local convergence analysis of the proximal point method for special class of nonconvex function on Hadamard manifold is presented in this paper. The well definedness of the sequence generated by the proximal point method is guaranteed.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-13 G. C. Bento , O. P. Ferreira , P. R. Oliveira

We study regression of $1$-Lipschitz functions under a log-concave measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$. We focus on the high-dimensional regime where the sample size $n$ is subexponential in $d$, in which distribution-free estimators are…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Pierre Bizeul , Boaz Klartag

In this paper, we consider a class of constrained multiobjective optimization problems, where each objective function can be expressed by adding a possibly nonsmooth nonconvex function and a differentiable function with Lipschitz continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Nguyen Van Tuyen , Minh N. Dao , Tran Van Nghi

In this paper, we establish explicit convergence rates for the stochastic smooth approximations of infimal convolutions introduced and developed in \cite{MR4581306,MR4923371}. In particular, we quantify the convergence of the associated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Diego Morales , Pedro Pérez-Aros , Emilio Vilches

Let $\mathcal{A}$ be the family of analytic and normalized functions in the open unit disc $|z|<1$. In this article we consider the following classes \begin{equation*} \mathcal{R}(\alpha,\beta):=\left\{ f\in \mathcal{A}: {\rm…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Hesam Mahzoon , Rahim Kargar

A key idea in convex optimization theory is to use well-structured affine functions to approximate general functions, leading to impactful developments in conjugate functions and convex duality theory. This raises the question: what are the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Ningji Wei

This work investigates the properties of the proximity operator for quasar-convex functions and establishes the convergence of the proximal point algorithm to a global minimizer with a particular focus on its convergence rate. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 José de Brito , Felipe Lara , Di Liu

We study the proximity operator of the nonconvex, scale-invariant ratio $h(\vx)=\|\vx\|_{1}/\|\vx\|_{2}$ and show it can be computed exactly in any dimension. By expressing $\vx=r\vu$ and exploiting sign and permutation invariance, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Lixin Shen , Guohui Song

This paper deals with composite optimization problems having the objective function formed as the sum of two terms, one has Lipschitz continuous gradient along random subspaces and may be nonconvex and the second term is simple and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-10 I. Necoara , F. Chorobura

In this paper we investigate the applicability of a recently introduced primal-dual splitting method in the context of solving portfolio optimization problems which assume the minimization of risk measures associated to different convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-30 Radu Ioan Bot , Christopher Hendrich

Estimation of convex functions finds broad applications in engineering and science, while convex shape constraint gives rise to numerous challenges in asymptotic performance analysis. This paper is devoted to minimax optimal estimation of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Teresa M. Lebair , Jinglai Shen , Xiao Wang

Let X be a separable Banach space which admits a separating polynomial; in particular X a separable Hilbert space. Let $f:X \rightarrow R$ be bounded, Lipschitz, and $C^1$ with uniformly continuous derivative. Then for each {\epsilon}>0,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-23 D. Azagra , R. Fry , L. Keener

The usual approach to developing and analyzing first-order methods for smooth convex optimization assumes that the gradient of the objective function is uniformly smooth with some Lipschitz constant $L$. However, in many settings the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Haihao Lu , Robert M. Freund , Yurii Nesterov

We analyze matrix convex functions of a fixed order defined on a real interval by differential methods as opposed to the characterization in terms of divided differences given by Kraus. We obtain for each order conditions for matrix…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Hansen , Jun Tomiyama

In 1994, M. M. Popov [On integrability in F-spaces, Studia Math. no 3, 205-220] showed that the fundamental theorem of calculus fails, in general, for functions mapping from a compact interval of the real line into the lp-spaces for 0<p<1,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Fernando Albiac , Jose L Ansorena