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We investigate the uniform approximation provided by least squares polynomials on the unit Euclidean sphere $\mathbb{S}^q$ in $\mathbb{R}^{q+1}$, with $q\ge 2$. Like any other polynomial projection, the study concerns the growth, as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Woula Themistoclakis , Marc Van Barel

We develop lower bounds for the energy of configurations in $\mathbb{R}^d$ periodic with respect to a lattice. In certain cases, the construction of sharp bounds can be formulated as a finite dimensional, multivariate polynomial…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Doug Hardin , Nathaniel Tenpas

We propose a nuclear-spin-polarization protocol in a general evolution-and-measurement framework. The protocol works in a spin-star configuration, where the central spin is coupled to the surrounding bath (nuclear) spins by flip-flop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Zhu-yao Jin , Jia-shun Yan , Jun Jing

The set of all error-correcting codes C over a fixed finite alphabet F of cardinality q determines the set of code points in the unit square with coordinates (R(C), delta (C)):= (relative transmission rate, relative minimal distance). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yuri I. Manin , Matilde Marcolli

We present a new proof (based on spectral decomposition) of a bound originally proved by Sidelnikov~\, for the frame potentials $\sum_{ij} \left( {\bf P}_i \cdot {\bf P}_j \right)^\ell $ on a unit--sphere in $d$ dimensions. Sidelnikov's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Paolo Amore , Ricardo A. Sáenz

We prove that among all doubly connected domains of $\R^n$ bounded by two spheres of given radii, $Z(t)$, the trace of the heat kernel with Dirichlet boundary conditions, achieves its minimum when the spheres are concentric (i.e., for the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Ahmad El Soufi , Evans Harrell

We consider an optimal shape design problem for the plate equation, where the variable thickness of the plate is the design function. This problem can be formulated as a control in the coefficient PDE-constrained optimal control problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Klaus Deckelnick , Michael Hinze , Tobias Jordan

We evaluate the percolation threshold values for a realistic model of continuum segregated systems, where random spherical inclusions forbid the percolating objects, modellized by hard-core spherical particles surrounded by penetrable…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Johner , C. Grimaldi , T. Maeder , P. Ryser

Determination of \emph{optimal} arrangements of $N$ particles on a sphere is a well-known problem in physics. A famous example of such is the Thomson problem of finding equilibrium configurations of electrical charges on a sphere. More…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Wesley J. M. Ridgway , Alexei F. Cheviakov

Light reflection plays a crucial role in a number of modern technologies. In this paper, analytical expressions for maximal reflected power in any direction and for any polarization are given for generic planar structures made of a single…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-12 Mohamed Ismail Abdelrahman , Francesco Monticone

We consider an ultra-weak first order system discretization of the Helmholtz equation. When employing the optimal test norm, the `ideal' method yields the best approximation to the pair of the Helmholtz solution and its scaled gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Harald Monsuur , Rob Stevenson

The problem of twelve spheres is to understand, as a function of $r \in (0,r_{max}(12)]$, the configuration space of $12$ non-overlapping equal spheres of radius $r$ touching a central unit sphere. It considers to what extent, and in what…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Rob Kusner , Wöden Kusner , Jeffrey C. Lagarias , Senya Shlosman

We prove upper bounds on the graph diameters of polytopes in two settings. The first is a worst-case bound for polytopes defined by integer constraints in terms of the height of the integers and certain subdeterminants of the constraint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Hariharan Narayanan , Rikhav Shah , Nikhil Srivastava

In this work we deal with a following nonlinear Schrodinger equation in dimension greater or equal to 3, with a subcritical power-type nonlinearity and a positive potential satisfying a local condition. We prove the existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Giovany M. Figueiredo , Marcos T. O. Pimenta

Consider a binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channel $W$. Such a channel has a capacity, call it $I(W)$, and for any $R<I(W)$ and strictly positive constant $P_{\rm e}$ we know that we can construct a coding scheme that allows…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 S. Hamed Hassani , Kasra Alishahi , Rudiger Urbanke

Theoretical background is provided towards the mathematical foundation of the minimum enclosing ball problem. This problem concerns the determination of the unique spherical surface of smallest radius enclosing a given bounded set in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Michael N. Vrahatis

Constellation shaping is a practical and effective technique to improve the performance and the rate adaptivity of optical communication systems. In principle, it could also be used to mitigate the impact of nonlinear effects, possibly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Marco Secondini , Stella Civelli , Enrico Forestieri , Lareb Zar Khan

Stabilization is still a somewhat controversial issue concerning its very existence and also the precise conditions for its occurrence. The key quantity to settle these questions is the ionization probability, for which hitherto no…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria , A. Fring , R. Schrader

Polarization radiation arising when a charged particle moves uniformly in vacuum nearby the media possessing a finite permittivity $\epsilon (\omega) = \epsilon^{\prime} + i \epsilon^{\prime \prime}$ and sharp boundaries is considered. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Dmitry Karlovets

We show that there exists a lattice covering of $\mathbb{R}^n$ by Eucledian spheres of equal radius with density $O\big(n \ln^{\beta} n \big)$ as $n\to\infty$, where \begin{align*} \beta := \frac{1}{2} \log_2 \left(\frac{8 \pi…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Jun Gao , Xizhi Liu , Oleg Pikhurko , Shumin Sun