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Discretizing Helmholtz problems via finite elements yields linear systems whose efficient solution remains a major challenge for classical computation. In this paper, we investigate how variational quantum algorithms could address this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Arnaud Rémi , François Damanet , Christophe Geuzaine

Recently, a class of algorithms combining classical fixed point iterations with repeated random sparsification of approximate solution vectors has been successfully applied to eigenproblems with matrices as large as $10^{108} \times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Jonathan Weare , Robert J. Webber

We present quadrature schemes to calculate matrices, where the so-called modified Hilbert transformation is involved. These matrices occur as temporal parts of Galerkin finite element discretizations of parabolic or hyperbolic problems when…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Marco Zank

Curvature has received increased attention as an important alternative to length based regularization in computer vision. In contrast to length, it preserves elongated structures and fine details. Existing approaches are either inefficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Claudia Nieuwenhuis , Eno Toeppe , Lena Gorelick , Olga Veksler , Yuri Boykov

We present a collection of algorithms which utilize dimensional reduction to perform mesh refinement and study possibly singular solutions of time-dependent partial differential equations. The algorithms are inspired by constructions used…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-06-21 Panagiotis Stinis

Fitting geometric models onto outlier contaminated data is provably intractable. Many computer vision systems rely on random sampling heuristics to solve robust fitting, which do not provide optimality guarantees and error bounds. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Anh-Dzung Doan , Michele Sasdelli , David Suter , Tat-Jun Chin

This paper tackles the challenging problem of constrained hexahedral meshing. An algorithm is introduced to build combinatorial hexahedral meshes whose boundary facets exactly match a given quadrangulation of the topological sphere. This…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Kilian Verhetsel , Jeanne Pellerin , Jean-François Remacle

Optical singularities, which are positions within an electromagnetic field where certain field parameters become undefined, hold significant potential for applications in areas such as super-resolution microscopy, sensing, and…

Quadrilateral layouts on surfaces are valuable in texture mapping, and essential in generation of quadrilateral meshes and in fitting splines. Previous work has characterized such layouts as a special metric on a surface or as a meromorphic…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Kendrick M. Shepherd , René R. Hiemstra , Thomas J. R. Hughes

Hexahedral meshes are an ubiquitous domain for the numerical resolution of partial differential equations. Computing a pure hexahedral mesh from an adaptively refined grid is a prominent approach to automatic hexmeshing, and requires the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Marco Livesu , Luca Pitzalis , Gianmarco Cherchi

We study mechanical structures composed of spatial four-bar linkages that are bistable, that is, they allow for two distinct configurations. They have an interpretation as quad nets in the Study quadric which can be used to prove existence…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Gudrun Szewieczek , Daniel Huczala , Martin Pfurner , Hans-Peter Schröcker

We give an overview of invariants of algebraic singularities over perfect fields. We then show how they lead to a synthetic proof of embedded resolution of singularities of 2-dimensional schemes.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-04 Angélica Benito , Orlando E. Villamayor

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

This paper proposes a practical and efficient solution for computing convolutions using hybrid dealiasing. It offers an alternative to explicit or implicit dealiasing and includes an optimized hyperparameter tuning algorithm that uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Robert Joseph George , Noel Murasko , John C. Bowman

We introduce a novel representation and optimization framework for discrete geodesics on triangle meshes that reduces artifacts of linear methods on uneven and coarse discretizations. Our method computes squared geodesic distances from…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yue Ruan , Albert Chern , Tzu-Mao Li , Kartic Subr , Amir Vaxman

The isometric embedding of surfaces in three-dimensional space is fundamental to various physical systems, from elastic sheets to programmable materials. While continuous surfaces typically admit unique solutions under suitable boundary…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-13 Kyungeun Kim , Christian D. Santangelo

Mixture models whose components have skewed hypercube contours are developed via a generalization of the multivariate shifted asymmetric Laplace density. Specifically, we develop mixtures of multiple scaled shifted asymmetric Laplace…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-28 Brian C. Franczak , Cristina Tortora , Ryan P. Browne , Paul D. McNicholas

A new parametric surface representation is proposed that interpolates the vertices of a given closed mesh of arbitrary topology. Smoothly connecting quadrilateral patches are created by blending local, multi-sided quadratic interpolants. In…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Péter Salvi

The Variational Quantum Linear Solver (VQLS), a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm for solving linear systems, faces a practical scalability bottleneck: the Linear Combination of Unitaries (LCU) decomposition requires O(L^2) circuit…

We present a comprehensive and self-contained simplified review of the quantum computing scheme of Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 190504 (2007), which features a 2-D nearest neighbor coupled lattice of qubits, a threshold error rate approaching 1%,…

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