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Given a random sample from a density function supported on a manifold $M$, a new method for the estimating highest density regions of the underlying population is introduced. The new proposal is based on the empirical version of the opening…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Diego Bolón , Rosa M. Crujeiras , Alberto Rodríguez-Casal

In scientific computing and machine learning applications, matrices and more general multidimensional arrays (tensors) can often be approximated with the help of low-rank decompositions. Since matrices and tensors of fixed rank form smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Alexander Novikov , Maxim Rakhuba , Ivan Oseledets

This paper studies large-scale optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds whose objective function is a finite sum of negative log-probability losses. Such problems arise in various machine learning and signal processing applications. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Jiang Hu , Ruicheng Ao , Anthony Man-Cho So , Minghan Yang , Zaiwen Wen

In this paper, we consider the problem of minimizing a smooth function on a Riemannian manifold and present a Riemannian gradient method with momentum. The proposed algorithm represents a substantial and nontrivial extension of a recently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Filippo Leggio , Diego Scuppa

In this paper we study continuous time adaptive extremum localization of an arbitrary quadratic function $F(\cdot)$ based on Hessian estimation, using measured the signal intensity by a sensory agent. The function $F(\cdot)$ represents a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Huseyin Demircioglu , Iman Fadakar , Baris Fidan

Randomized zeroth-order methods are classically analyzed in expectation, but a black-box Markov conversion can give misleading high-probability guarantees, in particular by forcing the finite-difference smoothing radius to shrink with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Haishan Ye

We introduce a new method of estimation of parameters in semiparametric and nonparametric models. The method is based on estimating equations that are $U$-statistics in the observations. The $U$-statistics are based on higher order…

The set B of geodesic rays avoiding a suitable obstacle in a complete negatively curved Riemannian manifold determines a spectrum S. While various properties of this spectrum are known, we define and study dimension functions on S in terms…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Steffen Weil

We derive an a priori real Hessian estimate for solutions of a large family of geometric fully non-linear elliptic equations on compact Hermitian manifolds, which is independent of a lower bound for the right-hand side function. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Jianchun Chu , Nicholas McCleerey

We consider sums of the form $\sum \phi(\gamma)$, where $\phi$ is a given function, and $\gamma$ ranges over the ordinates of nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta-function in a given interval. We show how the numerical estimation of such…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Richard P. Brent , David J. Platt , Timothy S. Trudgian

We develop a new Riemannian descent algorithm that relies on momentum to improve over existing first-order methods for geodesically convex optimization. In contrast, accelerated convergence rates proved in prior work have only been shown to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Foivos Alimisis , Antonio Orvieto , Gary Bécigneul , Aurelien Lucchi

By methods of stochastic analysis on Riemannian manifolds, we derive explicit constants $c\_1(D)$ and $c\_2(D)$ for a $d$-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold $D$ with boundary such that $c\_1(D)\sqrt{\lambda}\|\phi\|\_\infty \le…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Marc Arnaudon , Anton Thalmaier , Feng-Yu Wang

In this paper, we develop two Riemannian stochastic smoothing algorithms for nonsmooth optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, addressing distinct forms of the nonsmooth term \( h \). Both methods combine dynamic smoothing with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Kangkang Deng , Zheng Peng , Weihe Wu

We prove a sharp dimensionless weighted estimate of the Riesz vector on a Riemannian manifold with non-negative Bakry-Emery curvature. The proof is by the method of Bellman functions, where the explicit expression of a Bellman function of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Kamilia Dahmani

We introduce the concept of ODD ('$\mathbf{O}$rthogonally $\mathbf{D}$egenerating on a $\mathbf{D}$ivisor') Riemannian metrics on real analytic manifolds $M$. These semipositive symmetric $2$-tensors may degenerate on a finite collection of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Lukas Braun

We will show that, contrary to the behavior of the higher order Riesz transforms studied so far on the atomic Hardy space $\mathcal{H}^1(\mathbb R^n, \gamma)$, associated with the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator with respect to the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Fabio Berra , Estefanía Dalmasso , Roberto Scotto

In this paper we study the {\it a priori} gradient estimates for admissible solutions to Neumann boundary value problem of fully nonlinear Hessian equations on Riemannian manifolds. We firstly derive an interior gradient estimates for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-28 Weisong Dong

This paper studies derivatives with respect to the parameters of Srivastava triple hypergeometric functions HA, HB and HC. Using basic properties of the Gamma function and Pochhammer symbols, we obtain explicit formulas for first and higher…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Ayman Shehata , Recep Sahin , Oguz Yagcl , Shimaa I. Moustafa

We consider the approximation of manifold-valued functions by embedding the manifold into a higher dimensional space, applying a vector-valued approximation operator and projecting the resulting vector back to the manifold. It is well known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Ralf Hielscher , Laura Lippert

The differential-geometric structure of the manifold of smooth shapes is applied to the theory of shape optimization problems. In particular, a Riemannian shape gradient with respect to the first Sobolev metric and the Steklov-Poincar\'{e}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Kathrin Welker