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This paper studies finite element approximations of the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation with gradient-type multiplicative noises that are white in time and correlated in space. The sharp interface limit as the parameter $\epsilon \rightarrow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yi Zhang

In this paper, we propose and analyze an explicit time-stepping scheme for a spatial discretization of stochastic Cahn--Hilliard equation with additive noise. The fully discrete approximation combines a spectral Galerkin method in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Meng Cai , Ruisheng Qi , Xiaojie Wang

In a recent paper (see [7]), a quasi-nonlocal coupling method was introduced to seamlessly bridge a nonlocal diffusion model with the classical local diffusion counterpart in a one-dimensional space. The proposed coupling framework removes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Amanda Gute , Xingjie Helen Li

Spectral methods, thanks to the high accuracy and the possibility of using fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate collisional kinetic equations in kinetic theory. On the other hand, the loss of some local invariants can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Lorenzo Pareschi , Thomas Rey

In this article we derive a strong version of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle for general nonlinear optimal control problems on time scales in finite dimension. The final time can be fixed or not, and in the case of general boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-15 Loïc Bourdin , Emmanuel Trélat

Under general multivariate regular variation conditions, the extreme Value-at-Risk of a portfolio can be expressed as an integral of a known kernel with respect to a generally unknown spectral measure supported on the unit simplex. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Robert Yuen , Stilian Stoev , Dan Cooley

We develop and analyze a class of maximum bound preserving schemes for approximately solving Allen--Cahn equations. We apply a $k$th-order single-step scheme in time (where the nonlinear term is linearized by multi-step extrapolation), and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Jiang Yang , Zhaoming Yuan , Zhi Zhou

We consider eigenvalue problems for general elliptic operators of arbitrary order subject to homogeneous boundary conditions on open subsets of the euclidean N-dimensional space. We prove stability results for the dependence of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-27 Pier Domenico Lamberti , Luigi Provenzano

This is the second part of study on the optimal convergence rate of the explicit Euler discretization in time for the convection-diffusion equations [Appl. Math. Lett. \textbf{131} (2022) 108048] which focuses on high-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-13 Qifeng Zhang , Jiyuan Zhang , Zhi-zhong Sun

Unconstrained binary integer programming (UBIP) is a challenging optimization problem due to the presence of binary variables. To address the challenge, we introduce a novel class of functions named sharp-peak functions (SPFs), which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Shenglong Zhou , Shuai Li , Hui Zhang , Ziyan Luo

We propose a stochastic approximation method for approximating the efficient frontier of chance-constrained nonlinear programs. Our approach is based on a bi-objective viewpoint of chance-constrained programs that seeks solutions on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Rohit Kannan , James Luedtke

We establish sharp energy decay rates for a large class of nonlinearly first-order damped systems, and we design discretization schemes that inherit of the same energy decay rates, uniformly with respect to the space and/or time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-17 Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira , Yannick Privat , Emmanuel Trélat

Numerical simulations of compressible real-fluid flows are notoriously plagued by spurious pressure oscillations arising in regions of abrupt flow variations. As a possible remedy, several numerical formulations enforce the pressure…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-27 Gennaro Coppola , Alessandro Aiello , Carlo De Michele

This paper investigates a category of constrained fractional optimization problems that emerge in various practical applications. The objective function for this category is characterized by the ratio of a numerator and denominator, both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yizun Lin , Jian-Feng Cai , Zhao-Rong Lai , Cheng Li

In this paper, we are concerned with a nonlinear optimal control problem of ordinary differential equations. We consider a discretization of the problem with the discontinuous Galerkin method with arbitrary order $r \in \mathbb{N}\cup…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Woocheol Choi , Young-Pil Choi

For an optimal control problem, the concept of a strong local infimum is introduce, for which necessary conditions consisting of some family of "maximum principles" are formulated. If a function delivers a strong local minimum in this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-06 Evgeny Avakov , Georgii Magaril-Il'yaev

For over five decades the procedure termed maximum-entropy (M-E) has been used to sharpen structure in spectra, optical and otherwise. However, this is a contradiction: by modifying data, this approach violates the fundamental M-E…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Long V. Le , Tae J. Kim , Young D. Kim , D. E. Aspnes

We consider numerical solutions for the Allen-Cahn equation with standard double well potential and periodic boundary conditions. Surprisingly it is found that using standard numerical discretizations with high precision computational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Dong Li , Chaoyu Quan , Tao Tang , Wen Yang

This paper is concerned with a partially observed hybrid optimal control problem, where continuous dynamics and discrete events coexist and in particular, the continuous dynamics can be observed while the discrete events, described by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Siyu Lv , Jie Xiong , Wen Xu

Based on works by Hopf, Weinberger, Hamilton and Evans, we state and prove the strong elliptic maximum principle for smooth sections in vector bundles over Riemannian manifolds and give some applications in Differential Geometry. Moreover,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-14 Andreas Savas-Halilaj , Knut Smoczyk