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We study the problem of computing the conformal modulus of rings and quadrilaterals with strong singularities and cusps on their boundary. We reduce this problem to the numerical solution of the associated Dirichlet and Dirichlet-Neumann…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-28 Harri Hakula , Antti Rasila , Matti Vuorinen

In this work we study three exterior extension problems for strongly elliptic partial equations: the Cauchy problem (in a special statement), the "analytical" continuation problem and the so called "inner" Dirichlet problem in the scale of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-23 Vitaly Kalinin , Alexander Shlapunov

Simultaneous Embedding with Fixed Edges (SEFE) is a problem where given $k$ planar graphs we ask whether they can be simultaneously embedded so that the embedding of each graph is planar and common edges are drawn the same. Problems of SEFE…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Matěj Konečný , Stanislav Kučera , Jana Novotná , Jakub Pekárek , Martin Smolík , Jakub Tětek , Martin Töpfer

Motivated by a new formulation of the classical dividend problem, we show that Peskir's maximality principle can be transferred to singular stochastic control problems with 2-dimensional degenerate dynamics and absorption along the diagonal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Tiziano De Angelis , Erik Ekström , Marcus Olofsson

We solve the $n$-marginal Skorokhod embedding problem for a continuous local martingale and a sequence of probability measures $\mu_1,...,\mu_n$ which are in convex order and satisfy an additional technical assumption. Our construction is…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Jan Obłój , Peter Spoida

We examine four dimensional, near-extremal black hole solutions in the presence of a finite boundary obeying conformal boundary conditions, where the conformal class of the induced metric and the trace of the extrinsic curvature are fixed.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-18 Damián A. Galante , Chawakorn Maneerat , Andrew Svesko

We revisit work of Rost, Dupire and Cox--Wang on connections between Root's solution of the Skorokhod embedding problem and obstacle problems. We develop an approach based on viscosity sub- and supersolutions and an accompanying comparison…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Paul Gassiat , Harald Oberhauser , Goncalo dos Reis

While the Teukolsky equation plays a central role in traditional treatments of perturbations of algebraically special spacetimes, its relation to Friedrich's conformal Einstein field equations (CEFEs) remains largely unexplored. Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Edgar Gasperin , Rodrigo Panosso Macedo , Justin Feng

Conformal prediction (CP) for regression can be challenging, especially when the output distribution is heteroscedastic, multimodal, or skewed. Some of the issues can be addressed by estimating a distribution over the output, but in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Etash Guha , Shlok Natarajan , Thomas Möllenhoff , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Eugene Ndiaye

In this paper we consider a connection between the famous Skorohod embedding problem and the Shiryaev inverse problem for the first hitting time distribution of a Brownian motion: given a probability distribution, $F$, find a boundary such…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Sebastian Jaimungal , Alexander Kreinin , Angel Valov

In this paper, we solve the $p$-Dirichlet problem for Besov boundary data on unbounded uniform domains with bounded boundaries when the domain is equipped with a doubling measure satisfying a Poincar\'{e} inequality. This is accomplished by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Ryan Gibara , Riikka Korte , Nageswari Shanmugalingam

We show that the minimum effort control of colloidal self-assembly can be naturally formulated in the order-parameter space as a generalized Schr\"{o}dinger bridge problem -- a class of fixed-horizon stochastic optimal control problems that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Iman Nodozi , Charlie Yan , Mira Khare , Abhishek Halder , Ali Mesbah

The Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) is a problem of computing a homomorphism $\mathbf{R}\to \mathbf{\Gamma}$ between two relational structures, where $\mathbf{R}$ is defined over a domain $V$ and $\mathbf{\Gamma}$ is defined over a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Rustem Takhanov

The constrained generalized maximum-entropy sampling problem (CGMESP) is to select an order-s principal submatrix from an order-n covariance matrix, subject to some linear side constraints, so as to maximize the product of its t greatest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Gabriel Ponte , Kurt Anstreicher , Marcia Fampa , Jon Lee

This paper examines the Root solution of the Skorohod embedding problem given full marginals on some compact time interval. Our results are obtained by limiting arguments based on finitely-many marginals Root solution of Cox, Obl\'oj and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Alexandre Richard , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

This paper studies the extremum seeking control (ESC) problem for a class of constrained nonlinear systems. Specifically, we focus on a family of constraints allowing to reformulate the original nonlinear system in the so-called…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Shuai Yuan , Filippo Fabiani , Simone Baldi

The shifted boundary method (SBM) is an approximate domain method for boundary value problems, in the broader class of unfitted/embedded/immersed methods. It has proven to be quite efficient in handling problems with complex geometries,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Nabil M. Atallah , Claudio Canuto , Guglielmo Scovazzi

We investigate the Steklov eigenvalue problem in an exterior Euclidean domain. First, we present several formulations of this problem and establish the equivalences between them. Next, we examine various properties of the exterior Steklov…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Lukas Bundrock , Alexandre Girouard , Denis S. Grebenkov , Michael Levitin , Iosif Polterovich

Numerical relativity has traditionally been pursued via finite differencing. Here we explore pseudospectral collocation (PSC) as an alternative to finite differencing, focusing particularly on the solution of the Hamiltonian constraint (an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Lawrence E. Kidder , Lee Samuel Finn

The Stochastic Extragradient (SEG) method is one of the most popular algorithms for solving min-max optimization and variational inequalities problems (VIP) appearing in various machine learning tasks. However, several important questions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Eduard Gorbunov , Hugo Berard , Gauthier Gidel , Nicolas Loizou