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This paper investigates the relationship between a system of differential equations and the underlying geometry associated with it. The geometry of a surface determines shortest paths, or geodesics connecting nearby points, which are…

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Invariant Lagrangians yield invariant Euler-Lagrange equations, and it was discussed in the literature how to compute those using various local methods. The focus of this paper is on global algebraic differential invariants. In this case…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Boris Kruglikov , Eivind Schneider , Wijnand Steneker

Lagrangian averaging theories, most notably the Generalised Lagrangian Mean (GLM) theory of Andrews & McIntyre (1978), have been primarily developed in Euclidean space and Cartesian coordinates. We re-interpret these theories using a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-08 Andrew D. Gilbert , Jacques Vanneste

Several recent empirical studies demonstrate that important machine learning tasks, e.g., training deep neural networks, exhibit low-rank structure, where the loss function varies significantly in only a few directions of the input space.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Romain Cosson , Ali Jadbabaie , Anuran Makur , Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Devavrat Shah

In his G\'eom\'etrie (1637) Descartes introduces the algebra of segments. This is a fundamental step in the mathematical treatment of variable quantities before the creation of differential calculus. It is an algebra with symbols but…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Nicol Imperi , Enrico Rogora

The optimal value function is one of the basic objects in the field of mathematical optimization, as it allows the evaluation of the variations in the cost/revenue generated while minimizing/maximizing a given function under some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Alain B. Zemkoho

This is the first paper in a series (of four) designed to show how to use geometric algebras of multivectors and extensors to a novel presentation of some topics of differential geometry which are important for a deeper understanding of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 V. V. Fernandez , A. M. Moya , W. A. Rodrigues

DifferentialGeometry is a Maple software package which symbolically performs fundamental operations of calculus on manifolds, differential geometry, tensor calculus, Lie algebras, Lie groups, transformation groups, jet spaces, and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 I. M. Anderson , C. G. Torre

Fractional derivatives and integrations of non-integers orders was introduced more than three centuries ago but only recently gained more attention due to its application on nonlocal phenomenas. In this context, several formulations of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-26 Matheus Jatkoske Lazo

Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. In this paper we present a method to construct symplectic-momentum integrators for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Leonardo Colombo , Sebastián Ferraro , David Martín de Diego

The paper proposes a new algorithm for solving global univariate optimization problems. The algorithm does not require convexity of the target function. For a broad variety of target functions after performing (if necessary) several…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Sergey Nikitin

It turns out that complex geodesics in Teichm\"uller spaces with respect to their invariant metrics are intrinsically connected with variational calculus for univalent functions. We describe this connection and show how geometric features…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Samuel L. Krushkal

$L^1$ based optimization is widely used in image denoising, machine learning and related applications. One of the main features of such approach is that it naturally provide a sparse structure in the numerical solutions. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Weifeng Qiu , Jin Ren , Ke Shi , Yuesheng Xu

A computer-algebra aided method is carried out, for determining geometric objects associated to differential operators that satisfy the elliptic ansatz. This results in examples of Lame curves with double reduction and in the explicit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 J. Chris Eilbeck , Victor Z. Enolski , Emma Previato

The application of neural network models to scientific machine learning tasks has proliferated in recent years. In particular, neural network models have proved to be adept at modeling processes with spatial-temporal complexity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jeremiah Hauth , Cosmin Safta , Xun Huan , Ravi G. Patel , Reese E. Jones

In this paper, we present a new variational integrator for problems in Lagrangian mechanics. Using techniques from Galerkin variational integrators, we construct a scheme for numerical integration that converges geometrically, and is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-20 James Hall , Melvin Leok

This work presents a deep learning-based framework for the solution of partial differential equations on complex computational domains described with computer-aided design tools. To account for the underlying distribution of the training…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Moritz von Tresckow , Stefan Kurz , Herbert De Gersem , Dimitrios Loukrezis

In this short survey article, we showcase a number of non-trivial geometric problems that have recently been resolved by marrying methods from functional calculus and real-variable harmonic analysis. We give a brief description of these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Lashi Bandara

The choice of activation function can significantly influence the performance of neural networks. The lack of guiding principles for the selection of activation function is lamentable. We try to address this issue by introducing our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Yiwei Li , Enzhi Li

We consider the problem of approximating partition functions for Ising models. We make use of recent tools in combinatorial optimization: the Sherali-Adams and Lasserre convex programming hierarchies, in combination with variational methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Andrej Risteski