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In this paper we introduce new symmetrization with respect to mixed volume or anisotropic curvature integral, which generalizes the one with respect to quermassintegral due to Talenti and Tso. We show a P\'olya-Szego type principle for such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Francesco Della Pietra , Nunzia Gavitone , Chao Xia

We propose an iterative method for approximating the capacity of classical-quantum channels with a discrete input alphabet and a finite dimensional output, possibly under additional constraints on the input distribution. Based on duality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 David Sutter , Tobias Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Renato Renner

This study presents a novel algorithm for identifying the set of extreme points that constitute the exact convex hull of a point set in high-dimensional Euclidean space. The proposed method iteratively solves a sequence of dynamically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qianwei Zhuang

We give a method for computing asymptotic formulas and approximations for the volumes of spectrahedra, based on the maximum-entropy principle from statistical physics. The method gives an approximate volume formula based on a single convex…

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General results on convex bodies are reviewed and used to derive an exact closed-form parametric formula for the Minkowski sum boundary of $m$ arbitrary ellipsoids in $N$-dimensional Euclidean space. Expressions for the principal curvatures…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Gregory S. Chirikjian , Bernard Shiffman

In this paper, we investigate the relationships between the volumes of four convex bodies: the cut polytope, metric polytope, rooted metric polytope, and elliptope, defined on graphs with $n$ vertices. The cut polytope is contained in each…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 David Avis , Luc Devroye

We propose a near-optimal method for highly smooth convex optimization. More precisely, in the oracle model where one obtains the $p^{th}$ order Taylor expansion of a function at the query point, we propose a method with rate of convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Sébastien Bubeck , Qijia Jiang , Yin Tat Lee , Yuanzhi Li , Aaron Sidford

We develop a technique using dual mixed-volumes to study the isotropic constants of some classes of spaces. In particular, we recover, strengthen and generalize results of Ball and Junge concerning the isotropic constants of subspaces and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Emanuel Milman

A well known result by Lagarias and Ziegler states that there are finitely many equivalence classes of d-dimensional lattice polytopes having volume at most K, for fixed constants d and K. We describe an algorithm for the complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-09 Gabriele Balletti

This paper is concerned with solution algorithms for general convex vector optimization problems (CVOPs). So far, solution concepts and approximation algorithms for solving CVOPs exist only for bounded problems [Ararat et al. 2022, Doerfler…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Andrea Wagner , Firdevs Ulus , Birgit Rudloff , Gabriela Kováčová , Niklas Hey

One of the most fruitful results from Minkowski's geometric viewpoint on number theory is his so called 1st Fundamental Theorem. It provides an optimal upper bound for the volume of an o-symmetric convex body whose only interior lattice…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Bernardo González Merino , Matthias Henze

Polynomial-time deterministic approximation of volumes of polytopes, up to an approximation factor that grows at most sub-exponentially with the dimension, remains an open problem. Recent work on this question has focused on identifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Hariharan Narayanan , Piyush Srivastava

Recall that a convex body $K$ is in John's position if the unit Euclidean ball is the maximal volume ellipsoid contained in $K$. Approximating convex body in John's position by polytopes we obtain the following results. 1. Let $n>R_n\ge 1$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Han Huang

We consider the problem of augmenting an $n$-vertex tree with one shortcut in order to minimize the diameter of the resulting graph. The tree is embedded in an unknown space and we have access to an oracle that, when queried on a pair of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Davide Bilò

This paper presents bounds for the best approximation, with respect to the Hausdorff metric, of a convex body $K$ by a circumscribed polytope $P$ with a given number of facets. These bounds are of particular interest if $K$ is elongated. To…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Gilles Bonnet

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex function over a convex set given access only to an evaluation oracle for the function and a membership oracle for the set. We give a simple algorithm which solves this problem with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Yin Tat Lee , Aaron Sidford , Santosh S. Vempala

We deduce explicit formulae for the intrinsic volumes of an ellipsoid in $\mathbb R^d$, $d\ge 2$, in terms of elliptic integrals. Namely, for an ellipsoid ${\mathcal E}\subset \mathbb R^d$ with semiaxes $a_1,\ldots, a_d$ we show that…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Anna Gusakova , Evgeny Spodarev , Dmitry Zaporozhets

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane. We consider a variation of the classical Erd\H{o}s-Szekeres problem, presenting efficient algorithms with $O(n^3)$ running time and $O(n^2)$ space complexity that compute: (1) A subset $S$ of $P$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hernán González-Aguilar , David Orden , Pablo Pérez-Lantero , David Rappaport , Carlos Seara , Javier Tejel , Jorge Urrutia

The maximum volume $j$-simplex problem asks to compute the $j$-dimensional simplex of maximum volume inside the convex hull of a given set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{Q}^d$. We give a deterministic approximation algorithm for this problem…

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