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Shape optimization based on the shape calculus is numerically mostly performed by means of steepest descent methods. This paper provides a novel framework to analyze shape-Newton optimization methods by exploiting a Riemannian perspective.…

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The purpose of the present paper is to present the main applications of a new method for the determination of the fractal structure of plane curves. It is focused on the inverse problem, that is, given a curve in the plane, find its fractal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-02-01 Luiz Bevilacqua , Marcelo M. Barros , Felipe C. V. Venturelli

Classical Domain Adaptation methods acquire transferability by regularizing the overall distributional discrepancies between features in the source domain (labeled) and features in the target domain (unlabeled). They often do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Shumin Ma , Zhiri Yuan , Qi Wu , Yiyan Huang , Xixu Hu , Cheuk Hang Leung , Dongdong Wang , Zhixiang Huang

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical workflows, but domain shift often leads to performance degradation when models are applied to unseen clinical domains. This challenge arises due to variations in imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yingkai Wang , Yaoyao Zhu , Xiuding Cai , Yuhao Xiao , Haotian Wu , Yu Yao

We establish pointwise formulas for the shape derivative of solutions to the Dirichlet problem associated with the fractional Laplacian. Specifically, we consider the equation $(-\Delta)^s u = h$ in $\Omega$ and $u=0$ in $\Omega^c$, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Sidy M. Djitte , Franck Sueur

A new type of sectional curvature is introduced. The notion is purely algebraic and can be located in linear algebra as well as in differential geometry.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Barbara Opozda

Discretization of curves is an ancient topic. Even discretization of curves with an eye toward differential geometry is over a century old. However there is no general theory or methodology in the literature, despite the ubiquitous use of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Daniel Carroll , Eleanor Hankins , Emek Köse , Ivan Sterling

A new field of discrete differential geometry is presently emerging on the border between differential and discrete geometry. Whereas classical differential geometry investigates smooth geometric shapes (such as surfaces), and discrete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-19 Alexander I. Bobenko , Yuri B. Suris

We explore probability modelling of discretization uncertainty for system states defined implicitly by ordinary or partial differential equations. Accounting for this uncertainty can avoid posterior under-coverage when likelihoods are…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-25 Oksana A. Chkrebtii , David A. Campbell , Ben Calderhead , Mark A. Girolami

In this paper, we study unirational differential curves and the corresponding differential rational parametrizations. We first investigate basic properties of proper differential rational parametrizations for unirational differential…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Lei Fu , Wei Li

Localized features such as singularities, sharp gradients, discontinuities, and moving sources require adaptive finite element discretizations. Conventional refinement strategies introduce significant computational overhead through…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jan Niklas Schmäke , Martin Ruess

We present Geometry in Style, a new method for identity-preserving mesh stylization. Existing techniques either adhere to the original shape through overly restrictive deformations such as bump maps or significantly modify the input shape…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Nam Anh Dinh , Itai Lang , Hyunwoo Kim , Oded Stein , Rana Hanocka

We consider smooth stochastic convex optimization problems in the context of algorithms which are based on directional derivatives of the objective function. This context can be considered as an intermediate one between derivative-free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Pavel Dvurechensky , Eduard Gorbunov , Alexander Gasnikov

We provide a general framework to construct finite dimensional approximations of the space of convex functions, which also applies to the space of c-convex functions and to the space of support functions of convex bodies. We give estimates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-11 Quentin Mérigot , Edouard Oudet

We have introduce a new vision of stochastic processes through the geometry induced by the dilation. The dilation matrices of a given processes are obtained by a composition of rotations matrices, contain the measure information in a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Maël Dugast , Guillaume Bouleux , Eric Marcon

This paper addresses the issue of structure-preserving discretization of open distributed-parameter systems with Hamiltonian dynamics. Employing the formalism of discrete exterior calculus, we introduce a simplicial Dirac structure as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Marko Seslija , Arjan van der Schaft , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

In the last decade, parameter-free approaches to shape optimization problems have matured to a state where they provide a versatile tool for complex engineering applications. However, sensitivity distributions obtained from shape…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Lars Radtke , Georgios Bletsos , Niklas Kühl , Tim Suchan , Thomas Rung , Alexander Düster , Kathrin Welker

Many important physical problems, such as fluid structure interaction or conjugate heat transfer, require numerical methods that compute boundary derivatives or fluxes to high accuracy. This paper proposes a novel alternative to calculating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-12 David Wells , Jeffrey Banks

We study the shape differentiability of a general functional depending on the solution of a bidimensional stationary Stokes-Elasticity system, with respect to the reference domain of the elastic structure immersed in a viscous fluid. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-13 V. Calisti , I. Lucardesi , J. -F. Scheid

This paper introduces a new functional expansion framework that extends classical ideas beyond the Taylor series. Unlike traditional Taylor expansions based on local polynomial approximations, the proposed approach arises from exact…

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