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Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

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Macroscopic fluctuations have become an essential tool to understand physics far from equilibrium due to the link between their statistics and nonequilibrium ensembles. The optimal path leading to a fluctuation encodes key information on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-13 N. Tizón-Escamilla , P. I. Hurtado , P. L. Garrido

We propose local space-time approximation spaces for parabolic problems that are optimal in the sense of Kolmogorov and may be employed in multiscale and domain decomposition methods. The diffusion coefficient can be arbitrarily rough in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Julia Schleuß , Kathrin Smetana

We consider the stability of Robust Optimization problems with respect to perturbations in their uncertainty sets. We focus on Linear Optimization problems, including those with a possibly infinite number of constraints, also known as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-23 Timothy C. Y. Chan , Philip Allen Mar

A numerical method based on the hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method in space and backward Euler in time is formulated and analyzed for solving the miscible displacement problem. Under low regularity assumptions, convergence is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Keegan L. A. Kirk , Beatrice Riviere

This paper investigates a space-time interface-fitted approximation of a moving-interface optimal control problem with energy regularization. We reformulate the optimality conditions into a variational problem involving both the state and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Quang Huy Nguyen , Phuong Cuc Hoang , Van Chien Le , Thi Thanh Mai Ta

Suppose we are given two metric spaces and a family of continuous transformations from one to the other. Given a probability distribution on each of these two spaces - namely the source and the target measures - the Wasserstein alignment…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Soumik Pal , Bodhisattva Sen , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

Consider a point process in Euclidean space obtained by perturbing the integer lattice with independent and identically distributed random vectors. Under mild assumptions on the law of the perturbations, we construct a translation-invariant…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Dor Elboim , Yinon Spinka , Oren Yakir

In this paper we consider the equilibrium problem in the relaxed linear model of micromorphic elastic materials. The basic kinematical fields of this extended continuum model are the displacement $u\in \mathbb{R}^3$ and the non-symmetric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Patrizio Neff , Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba , Markus Lazar , Angela Madeo

A stochastic PDE, describing mesoscopic fluctuations in systems of weakly interacting inertial particles of finite volume, is proposed and analysed in any finite dimension $d\in\mathbb{N}$. It is a regularised and inertial version of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Federico Cornalba , Tony Shardlow , Johannes Zimmer

We consider the problem of placing n small balls of given radius in a certain domain subject to a force f in order to minimize the compliance of the configuration. Then we let n tend to infinity and look at the asymptotics of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Buttazzo , F. Santambrogio , N. Varchon

For interacting classical field theories such as general relativity exact solutions typically can only be found by imposing physically motivated (Killing) {\it symmetry} assumptions. Such highly symmetric solutions are then often used as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-30 Thomas Thiemann

We consider the Random Euclidean Assignment Problem in dimension $d=1$, with linear cost function. In this version of the problem, in general, there is a large degeneracy of the ground state, i.e. there are many different optimal matchings…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Sergio Caracciolo , Vittorio Erba , Andrea Sportiello

The convergence and optimality of adaptive mixed finite element methods for the Poisson equation are established in this paper. The main difficulty for mixed finite element methods is the lack of minimization principle and thus the failure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Long Chen , Michael Holst , Jinchao Xu

Solutions of an optimization problem are sensitive to changes caused by approximations or parametric perturbations, especially in the nonconvex setting. This paper shows that solutions of substitute problems, constructed from Rockafellian…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Julio Deride , Johannes O. Royset

The aim of the present article is to introduce a concept which allows to generalise the notion of Poissonian pair correlation, a second-order equidistribution property, to higher dimensions. Roughly speaking, in the one-dimensional setting,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Aicke Hinrichs , Lisa Kaltenböck , Gerhard Larcher , Wolfgang Stockinger , Mario Ullrich

We discuss the optimal matching solution for both the assignment problem and the matching problem in one dimension for a large class of convex cost functions. We consider the problem in a compact set with the topology both of the interval…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-10-11 Sergio Caracciolo , Matteo D'Achille , Gabriele Sicuro

The algorithm for finding the optimal consistent approximation of an inconsistent pairwise comparisons matrix is based on a logarithmic transformation of a pairwise comparisons matrix into a vector space with the Euclidean metric.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-11 W. W. Koczkodaj , M. Orlowski

The Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann System governs the time evolution of the distribution function for the dilute charged particles in the presence of a self-consistent electric potential force through the Poisson equation. In this paper, we are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Renjun Duan , Robert M. Strain

We derive optimal estimates in stochastic homogenization of linear elliptic equations in divergence form in dimensions $d\ge 2$. In previous works we studied the model problem of a discrete elliptic equation on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. Under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-03 Antoine Gloria , Felix Otto