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This paper develops aspects of cosheaf theory on rigid analytic spaces, and demonstrates a sheaf-cosheaf Verdier duality equivalence theorem for overconvergent sheaves on separated, paracompact spaces, analogous to Jacob Lurie's treatment…

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The aim of this paper is to implement some new techniques, based on conjugate duality in convex optimization, for proving the existence of global error bounds for convex inequality systems. We deal first of all with systems described via…

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We present a concise proof for the supporting hyperplane theorem. We then observe that the proof not only establishes the supporting hyperplane theorem but also extends it to a hyperplane separation theorem for certain non-convex sets. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Ali Taherinassaj , Yiling Chen

A key idea in convex optimization theory is to use well-structured affine functions to approximate general functions, leading to impactful developments in conjugate functions and convex duality theory. This raises the question: what are the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Ningji Wei

We propose a non-perturbative description of the moduli spaces encoding p-form generalized Maxwell theories in any dimension, using derived differential geometry. Our approach synthesizes the Batalin--Vilkovisky formalism with differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Chris Elliott , Owen Gwilliam , Ingmar Saberi , Brian R. Williams

This paper will generalize what may be termed the "geometric duality theory" of real pre-ordered Banach spaces which relates geometric properties of a closed cone in a real Banach space, to geometric properties of the dual cone in the dual…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-30 Miek Messerschmidt

By de Vries duality, the category of compact Hausdorff spaces is dually equivalent to the category of de Vries algebras. In our recent article, we have extended de Vries duality to completely regular spaces by generalizing de Vries algebras…

General Topology · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Guram Bezhanishvili , Patrick J. Morandi , Bruce Olberding

Soft-thresholding has been widely used in neural networks. Its basic network structure is a two-layer convolution neural network with soft-thresholding. Due to the network's nature of nonlinearity and nonconvexity, the training process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Chunyan Xiong , Mengli Lu , Xiaotong Yu , Jian Cao , Zhong Chen , Di Guo , Xiaobo Qu

The first part of this work established the foundations of a radial duality between nonnegative optimization problems, inspired by the work of (Renegar, 2016). Here we utilize our radial duality theory to design and analyze projection-free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Benjamin Grimmer

This paper studies duality and optimality conditions in general convex stochastic optimization problems introduced by Rockafellar and Wets in 1976. We derive an explicit dual problem in terms of two dual variables, one of which is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Teemu Pennanen , Ari-Pekka Perkkiö

Constructing well-behaved Laplacian and mass matrices is essential for tetrahedral mesh processing. Unfortunately, the \emph{de facto} standard linear finite elements exhibit bias on tetrahedralized regular grids, motivating the development…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Alec Jacobson

In this paper, we investigate the polyhedral structure of two submodular sets with generalized upper bound (GUB) constraints, which arise as important substructures in various real-world applications. We derive a class of strong valid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Weikang Qian , Keyan Li , Wei-Kun Chen , Yu-Hong Dai

This article develops a duality principle for a class of optimization problems in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The results are obtained based on standard tools of convex analysis and on a well known result of Toland for D.C. optimization. Global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Fabio Botelho

Approximating a convex function by a polyhedral function that has a limited number of facets is a fundamental problem with applications in various fields, from mitigating the curse of dimensionality in optimal control to bi-level…

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The paper deals with the optimal control problem described by second order evolution differential inclusions; to this end first we use an auxiliary problem with second order discrete and discrete-approximate inclusions. Then applying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Elimhan N. Mahmudov

In this article we develop a duality principle suitable for a large class of problems in optimization. The main result is obtained through basic tools of convex analysis and duality theory. We establish a correct relation between the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Fabio Botelho

In this paper we introduce and study the concept of set extremality for systems of convex sets in vector spaces without topological structures. Characterizations of the extremal systems of sets are obtained in the form of the convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Dang Van Cuong , Boris Mordukhovich , Nguyen Mau Nam

We provide a duality theorem between Ext and Tor modules over a Cohen-Macaulay local ring possessing a canonical module, and use it to prove some freeness criteria for finite modules. The applications include a characterization of…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Rafael Holanda , Cleto B. Miranda-Neto

We discuss generalised duality theory for monoidal categories and its applications to the categories of exact endofunctors, graded vector spaces, and topological vector spaces.

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