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High order algorithms have emerged in numerical astrophysics as a promising avenue to reduce truncation error (proportional to a power of the linear resolution $\Delta x$) with only a moderate increase to computational expense. Significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Tomoyuki Hanawa , Patrick D. Mullen

We present an algorithm for the rapid numerical integration of a time-periodic ODE with a small dissipation term that is $C^1$ in the velocity. Such an ODE arises as a model of spin-orbit coupling in a star/planet system, and the motivation…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-06-23 Michele V. Bartuccelli , Jonathan H. B. Deane , Guido Gentile

The optimization of high-dimensional black-box functions is a challenging problem. When a low-dimensional linear embedding structure can be assumed, existing Bayesian optimization (BO) methods often transform the original problem into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-03 Shuhei A. Horiguchi , Tomoharu Iwata , Taku Tsuzuki , Yosuke Ozawa

The reconstruction algorithm introduced by \cite{Eis07}, which is widely used in clustering analysis, is based on the inference of the first order Lagrangian displacement field from the Gaussian smoothed galaxy density field in redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-09 M. Vargas-Magaña , S. Ho , S. Fromenteau , A. J. Cuesta

In this paper, we propose a novel recovery based finite element method for the Cahn-Hilliard equation. One distinguishing feature of the method is that we discretize the fourth-order differential operator in a standard $C^0$ linear finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Minqiang Xu , Hailong Guo , Qingsong Zou

We study the evolution of the halo-halo correlation function and bias in four cosmological models (LCDM, OCDM, tauCDM, and SCDM) using very high-resolution N-body simulations. The high force and mass resolution allows dark matter (DM) halos…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pedro Colin , Anatoly Klypin , Andrey Kravtsov , Alexei Khokhlov

We present independent determinations of cosmological parameters using the distance estimator based on the established correlation between the Balmer line luminosity, L(H$\beta$), and the velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) for HII galaxies…

In this work, we develop first-order (Hessian-free) and zero-order (derivative-free) implementations of the Cubically regularized Newton method for solving general non-convex optimization problems. For that, we employ finite difference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Nikita Doikov , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

A novel routine to investigate the scalar fields in a cosmological context is discussed in the framework of the Hamiltonian formalism. Starting from the Einstein-Hilbert action coupled to a Lagrangian density that contains two components -…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-16 Alex E. Bernardini , O. Bertolami

This work presents a nonintrusive physics-preserving method to learn reduced-order models (ROMs) of canonical Hamiltonian systems. Traditional intrusive projection-based model reduction approaches utilize symplectic Galerkin projection to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Harsh Sharma , Zhu Wang , Boris Kramer

This paper describes a fourth-order integration algorithm for the gravitational N-body problem based on discrete Lagrangian mechanics. When used with shared timesteps, the algorithm is momentum conserving and symplectic. We generalize the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Will M. Farr , Edmund Bertschinger

We present a new method for investigating first-order phase transitions using Monte Carlo simulations. It relies on the multiple-histogram method and uses solely histograms of individual phases. In addition, we extend the method to include…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-28 Martin Ebeling , Walter Nadler

Elastomeric mechanical metamaterials exhibit unconventional behaviour, emerging from their microstructures often deforming in a highly nonlinear and unstable manner. Such microstructural pattern transformations lead to non-local behaviour…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-18 S. O. Sperling , T. Guo , R. H. J. Peerlings , V. G. Kouznetsova , M. G. D. Geers , O. Rokoš

Using the 37-point cosmic-chronometer subset of observational Hubble parameter (OHD) data, we develop a Bayesian Gaussian-process framework to reconstruct the normalized dark-energy density \(f(z)\) and equation of state \(w(z)\), focusing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Jia-yan Jiang , Wei Hong , Tong-jie Zhang

We develop and implement a novel fast bootstrap for dependent data. Our scheme is based on the i.i.d. resampling of the smoothed moment indicators. We characterize the class of parametric and semi-parametric estimation problems for which…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-19 Davide La Vecchia , Alban Moor , Olivier Scaillet

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a Markov chain Monte Carlo method that allows to sample high dimensional probability measures. It relies on the integration of the Hamiltonian dynamics to propose a move which is then accepted or rejected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Tony Lelièvre , Régis Santet , Gabriel Stoltz

We present a new approach to discretizing shape optimization problems that generalizes standard moving mesh methods to higher-order mesh deformations and that is naturally compatible with higher-order finite element discretizations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-13 A. Paganini , F. Wechsung , P. E. Farrell

We present and compare third- as well as fifth-order accurate finite difference schemes for the numerical solution of the compressible ideal MHD equations in multiple spatial dimensions. The selected methods lean on four different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Mignone , P. Tzeferacos , G. Bodo

A hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) based numerical approach is developed for accurate and efficient evaluation of dynamical observables of strongly correlated quantum impurity systems. This approach is capable of describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-28 ZhenHua Li , NingHua Tong , Xiao Zheng , Dong Hou , JianHua Wei , Jie Hu , YiJing Yan

The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm is often lauded for its ability to effectively sample from high-dimensional distributions. In this paper we challenge the presumed domination of HMC for the Bayesian analysis of GLMs. By utilizing…