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An affine invariant point on the class of convex bodies in R^n, endowed with the Hausdorff metric, is a continuous map p which is invariant under one-to-one affine transformations A on R^n, that is, p(A(K))=A(p(K)). We define here the new…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-02 Mathieu Meyer , Carsten Schuett , Elisabeth M. Werner

The well-known theory of "rational canonical form of an operator" describes the invariant factors, or elementary divisors, as a complete set of invariants of a similarity class of an operator on a finite-dimensional vector space $\V$ over a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-09-11 Ravi S. Kulkarni

It is known that the Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm, which is affine-covariant, enjoys accelerated convergence rates when the constraint set is strongly convex. However, these results rely on norm-dependent assumptions, usually incurring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-09 Thomas Kerdreux , Lewis Liu , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Damien Scieur

As an application of Brouwer's fixed-point theorem we prove that a continuously differentiable convex function with gradient of constant norm is an affine mapping. It is a first-order characterization of affine mappings among continuously…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Csaba Vincze

Pfaff lattice was introduced by Adler and van Moerbeke to describe the partition functions for the random matrix models of GOE and GSE type. The partition functions of those matrix models are given by the Pfaffians of certain skew-symmetric…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Kodama , V. U. Pierce

If $f:[a,b]\to \mathbb{R}$, with $a<b$, is continuous and such that $a$ and $b$ are mapped in opposite directions by $f$, then $f$ has a fixed point in $I$. Suppose that $f:\mathbb{C}\to\mathbb{C}$ is map and $X$ is a continuum. We extend…

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Alexander Blokh , Lex Oversteegen

A singular point of a smooth map F: M -> N of manifolds is a point in M at which the rank of the differential dF is less than the minimum of dimensions of M and N. The classical invariant of the set S of singular points of F of a given type…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-03-14 Rustam Sadykov

A well-known result of W. Ray asserts that if $C$ is an unbounded convex subset of a Hilbert space, then there is a nonexpansive mapping $T$: $C\to C$ that has no fixed point. In this paper we establish some common fixed point properties…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Anthony T. -M. Lau , Yong Zhang

Given a strictly positive measure, we characterize inner semicontinuous solid convex-valued mappings for which continuous functions which are selections almost everywhere are selections. This class contains continuous mappings as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-23 Ari-Pekka Perkkiö

We consider smooth plane curves which are convex with respect to the origin. We describe centro-affine invariants (that is, GL_+(2,R)-invariants), such as centro-affine curvature and arc length, in terms of the canonical Lorentz structure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Marcos Salvai

We obtain an equivariant index theorem, or Lefschetz fixed-point formula, for isometries from complete Riemannian manifolds to themselves. The fixed-point set of such an isometry may be noncompact. We build on techniques developed by Roe.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Peter Hochs

Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have been widely used in medical data analysis and a number of different Riemannian met-rics were proposed to compute with them. However, there are very few methodological principles guiding the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Yann Thanwerdas , Xavier Pennec

Mixed $f$-divergences, a concept from information theory and statistics, measure the difference between multiple pairs of distributions. We introduce them for log concave functions and establish some of their properties. Among them are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-29 Umut Caglar , Elisabeth M. Werner

Orthogonally invariant functions of symmetric matrices often inherit properties from their diagonal restrictions: von Neumann's theorem on matrix norms is an early example. We discuss the example of "identifiability", a common property of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Aris Daniilidis , Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Adrian S. Lewis

We study the linear convergence of variants of the Frank-Wolfe algorithms for some classes of strongly convex problems, using only affine-invariant quantities. As in Guelat & Marcotte (1986), we show the linear convergence of the standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-06 Simon Lacoste-Julien , Martin Jaggi

The notion of a valuation on convex bodies is very classical. The notion of a valuation on a class of functions was recently introduced and studied by M. Ludwig and others. We study an explicit relation between continuous valuations on…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-04 Semyon Alesker

We study the approximation of functions which are invariant with respect to certain permutations of the input indices using flow maps of dynamical systems. Such invariant functions includes the much studied translation-invariant ones…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Qianxiao Li , Ting Lin , Zuowei Shen

Convex geometry has recently attracted great attention as a framework to formulate general probabilistic theories. In this framework, convex sets and affine maps represent the state spaces of physical systems and the possible dynamics,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-10 Gen Kimura , Koji Nuida

First we recall the notion of conxity and log-convexity for real-valued. Then we generalize the trick used by Artin in his famous paper on the Gamma function to find log-convex solutions to the functional equations f(x+1)=g(x)f(x). This…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-08-29 Martin Himmel

Invariant manifolds provide the geometric structures for describing and understanding dynamics of nonlinear systems. The theory of invariant manifolds for both finite and infinite dimensional autonomous deterministic systems, and for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jinqiao Duan , Kening Lu , Bjoern Schmalfuss