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We present a mathematical framework for quantum mechanics in which the basic entities and operations have physical significance. In this framework the primitive concepts are states and effects and the resulting mathematical structure is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Stan Gudder

Plank problems concern the covering of convex bodies by planks in Euclidean space and are related to famous open problems in convex geometry. In this survey, we introduce plank problems and present surprising applications of plank theorems…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-23 William Verreault

We study relations of some classes of $k$-convex, $k$-visible bodies in Euclidean spaces. We introduce and study \textrm{circular projections} in normed linear spaces and classes of bodies related with families of such maps, in particular,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-31 V. Golubyatnikov V. Rovenski

In this paper, two parallel notions of convexity of sets are introduced in the abelian semigroup setting. The connection of these notions to algebraic and to set-theoretic operations is investigated. A formula for the computation of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-12-24 Witold Jarczyk , Zsolt Páles

In this paper we show how the superquadratic functions can be used as a tool for researching other types of convex functions like $\phi $-convexity, strong-convexity and uniform convexity. We show how to use inequalities satisfied by…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Shoshana Abramovich

We define, in the frame of an abstract Wiener space, the notions of convexity and of concavity for the equivalence classes of random variables. As application we show that some important inequalities of the finite dimensional case have…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-09-05 D. Feyel , A. S. Üstünel

We present a geometrical analysis on the completely positive programming reformulation of quadratic optimization problems and its extension to polynomial optimization problems with a class of geometrically defined nonconvex conic programs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-09 Sunyoung Kim , Masakazu Kojima , Kim-Chuan Toh

We establish how a two-dimensional local field can be described as a locally convex space once an embedding of a local field into it has been fixed. We study the resulting spaces from a functional analytic point of view: in particular we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-31 Alberto Camara

Discrete convex functions are used in many areas, including operations research, discrete-event systems, game theory, and economics. The objective of this paper is to investigate basic operations such as direct sum, splitting, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Kazuo Murota

This paper presents a study of generalized polyhedral convexity under basic operations on multifunctions. We address the preservation of generalized polyhedral convexity under sums and compositions of multifunctions, the domains and ranges…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Nguyen Ngoc Luan , Nguyen Mau Nam , Nguyen Dong Yen

L$^\natural$ (natural)-convex functions encompass a large class of nonlinear functions over general integer domains and arise in a wide range of real-world applications. We explore the minimization of L$^\natural$-convex functions, of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Qimeng Yu , Simge Küçükyavuz

In this article, we introduce the notion of a functor on coarse spaces being coarsely excisive- a coarse analogue of the notion of a functor on topological spaces being excisive. Further, taking cones, a coarsely excisive functor yields a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Paul D. Mitchener

We define and study a class of subshifts of finite type (SFTs) defined by a family of allowed patterns of the same shape where, for any contents of the shape minus a corner, the number of ways to fill in the corner is the same. The main…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Ville Salo

A major factor contributing to the success of modern representation learning is the ease of performing various vector operations. Recently, objects with geometric structures (eg. distributions, complex or hyperbolic vectors, or regions such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Tejas Chheda , Purujit Goyal , Trang Tran , Dhruvesh Patel , Michael Boratko , Shib Sankar Dasgupta , Andrew McCallum

This article proposes a new discrete framework for approximating solutions to shape optimization problems under convexity constraints. The numerical method, based on the support function or the gauge function, is guaranteed to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Beniamin Bogosel

An effort has been made to show mathematicians some new ideas applied to image analysis. Gray images are presented as tilings. Based on topological properties of the tiling, a number of gray convex hulls: maximal, minimal, and oriented ones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Igor Polkovnikov

This work is concerned with the convex analysis of functions defined on (not necessarily finite-dimensional) Hilbert spaces whose values depend solely on a certain ``spectrum'' of the arguments, a class we term ``spectral functions.'' We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Hòa T. Bùi , Minh N. Bùi , Christian Clason

Several results concerning pairs of polynomially convex sets whose union is not even rationally convex are given. It is shown that there is no restriction on how two spaces can be embedded in some $\C^N$ so as to be polynomially convex but…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2021-08-23 Alexander J. Izzo

The classical theory of regularity of embeddings of compact convex sets was developed in the 1970s, exclusively in the real case, and even there it does not appear to have been stated in its simplest form. We begin by revisiting this…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-02-04 David P. Blecher

Typically, when we are given the section (or projection) function of a convex body, it means that in each direction we know the size of the central section (or projection) perpendicular to this direction. Suppose now that we can only get…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Jaegil Kim , Vladyslav Yaskin , Artem Zvavitch