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This paper continues our work [19] on sharp Alexandrov estimates. We obtain a sharp global uniform distance estimate from a convex function to the class of unimodular convex quadratic polynomials in terms of the total variation of its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Tianling Jin , Xushan Tu , Jingang Xiong

Spherical regression, in which both covariates and responses lie on the sphere, arises in many scientific applications and has attracted considerable methodological attention in recent years. Despite this progress, constructing flexible and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-19 Tin Lok James Ng , Kwok-Kun Kwong , Jiakun Liu , Andrew Zammit-Mangion

In this study we have developed a flexible and efficient numerical scheme for the simulation of three-dimensional incompressible flows in spherical coordinates. The main idea, inspired by a similar strategy as (Verzicco, R., Orlandi, P.,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-28 L. Santelli , P. Orlandi , R. Verzicco

A finite element method for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients is presented. The discontinuity is assumed to take place along a closed smooth curve. The proposed method allows to deal with meshes that are not adapted to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-07-12 Gunther H. Peichl , Rachid Touzani

We consider Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problems on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$, with a convex cost function given by the cumulant generating function of a probability measure. Examples include the Wasserstein-2 transport whose cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Soumik Pal

In this paper, we propose two linearized finite difference schemes for solving the logarithmic Schr\"odinger equation (LogSE) without the need for regularization of the logarithmic term. These two schemes employ the first-order and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Tingchun Wang , Jingye Yan

Obtaining solutions to Optimal Transportation (OT) problems is typically intractable when the marginal spaces are continuous. Recent research has focused on approximating continuous solutions with discretization methods based on i.i.d.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Junqi Wang , Pei Wang , Patrick Shafto

We prove that if $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ is a (not necessarily strictly) convex, $C^1$ domain, and $\mu$ and $\bar{\mu}$ are probability measures absolutely continuous with respect to surface measure on $\partial \Omega$, with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Seonghyeon Jeong , Jun Kitagawa

A numerical method is proposed for a class of stochastic control problems including singular behavior. This method solves an infinite-dimensional linear program equivalent to the stochastic control problem using a finite element type…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Martin G. Vieten , Richard H. Stockbridge

We prove optimal convergence rates for the discretization of a general second-order linear elliptic PDE with an adaptive vertex-centered finite volume scheme. While our prior work Erath and Praetorius [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 54 (2016), pp.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Christoph Erath , Dirk Praetorius

We introduce folded optimal transport, as a method to extend a cost or distance defined on the extreme boundary of a convex to the whole convex, related to convex extension. This construction broadens the framework of standard optimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Thomas Borsoni

We consider an optimal transport problem on the unit simplex whose solutions are given by gradients of exponentially concave functions and prove two main results. First, we show that the optimal transport is the large deviation limit of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Soumik Pal , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

We consider the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem between two measures, one of which is a weighted sum of Diracs. This problem is traditionally solved using expensive geometric methods. It can also be reformulated as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Jean-David Benamou , Brittany D. Froese

In this paper, we introduce methods from convex optimization to solve the multimarginal transport type problems arise in the context of density functional theory. Convex relaxations are used to provide outer approximation to the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Yuehaw Khoo , Lexing Ying

Stochastic diffusion equations are crucial for modeling a range of physical phenomena influenced by uncertainties. We introduce the generalized finite difference method for solving these equations. Then, we examine its consistency,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Faezeh Nassajian Mojarrad

This paper deals with dynamical optimal transport metrics defined by spatial discretisation of the Benamou--Benamou formula for the Kantorovich metric $W_2$. Such metrics appear naturally in discretisations of $W_2$-gradient flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Peter Gladbach , Eva Kopfer , Jan Maas , Lorenzo Portinale

We describe a novel Godunov-type numerical method for solving the equations of resistive relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. In the proposed approach, the spatial components of both magnetic and electric fields are located at zone interfaces…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 A. Mignone , G. Mattia , G. Bodo , L. Del Zanna

The optimal (Monge-Kantorovich) transportation problem is discussed from several points of view. The Lagrangian formulation extends the action of the {\em Lagrangian} $L(v,x,t)$ from the set of orbits in $\R^n$ to a set of measure-valued…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gershon Wolansky

We present a numerical investigation of residual-based a posteriori error estimation for finite element discretizations of convection--diffusion equations stabilized by algebraic flux correction and related algebraic stabilization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Naveed Ahmed , Abhinav Jha

We numerically benchmark methods for computing harmonic maps into the unit sphere, with particular focus on harmonic maps with singularities. For the discretization we compare two different approaches, both based on Lagrange finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-07 Sören Bartels , Klaus Böhnlein , Christian Palus , Oliver Sander