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For the solution of the Gauss image problem for pseudo-cones, which can be considered as a measure transport problem for certain measures on the sphere, we give a new proof, using a special case of Kantorovich duality.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Rolf Schneider

This paper continues our work [19] on sharp Alexandrov estimates. We obtain a sharp global uniform distance estimate from a convex function to the class of unimodular convex quadratic polynomials in terms of the total variation of its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Tianling Jin , Xushan Tu , Jingang Xiong

A radial probability measure is a probability measure with a density (with respect to the Lebesgue measure) which depends only on the distances to the origin. Consider the Euclidean space enhanced with a radial probability measure. A…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Yashar Memarian

We propose a program for establishing a conjectural extension to the class of (origin-symmetric) log-concave probability measures $\mu$, of the classical dual Sudakov Minoration on the expectation of the supremum of a Gaussian process:…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Shahar Mendelson , Emanuel Milman , Grigoris Paouris

We propose three iterative methods for solving the Moser-Veselov equation, which arises in the discretization of the Euler-Arnold differential equations governing the motion of a generalized rigid body. We start by formulating the problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Joao R. Cardoso , Pedro Miraldo

This paper presents a new accelerated proximal Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology to perform Bayesian inference in imaging inverse problems with an underlying convex geometry. The proposed strategy takes the form of a stochastic relaxed…

We examine the adiabatic approximation in the study of a relativistic two-body problem with the gravitational radiation reaction. We recently pointed out that the usual metric perturbation scheme using a perturbation of the stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasushi Mino

Consider the problem of estimating the mean of a Gaussian random vector when the mean vector is assumed to be in a given convex set. The most natural solution is to take the Euclidean projection of the data vector on to this convex set; in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-21 Sourav Chatterjee

We study compressible and incompressible nonlinear elasticity variational problems in a general context. Our main result gives a sufficient condition for an equilibrium to be a global energy minimizer, in terms of convexity properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Hugo Lavenant , Aaron Zeff Palmer

This article introduces the $L_p$-Gauss dual curvature measure and proposes its related $L_p$-Gauss dual Minkowski problem as: for $p,q\in\mathbb{R}$, under what necessary and/or sufficient condition on a non-zero finite Borel measure $\mu$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Na Fu , Jianping Sun

We introduce a novel relaxation of combinatorial discrepancy called Gaussian discrepancy, whereby binary signings are replaced with correlated standard Gaussian random variables. This relaxation effectively reformulates an optimization…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Sinho Chewi , Patrik Gerber , Philippe Rigollet , Paxton Turner

Alexandrov's estimate states that if $\Omega$ is a bounded open convex domain in ${\mathbb R}^n$ and $u:\bar \Omega\to {\mathbb R}$ is a convex solution of the Monge-Ampere equation $\det D^2 u = f$ that vanishes on $\partial \Omega$, then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Charles Griffin , Kennedy Obinna Idu , Robert L. Jerrard

We consider the Suslov problem of nonholonomic rigid body motion with inhomogeneous constraints. We show that if the direction along which the Suslov constraint is enforced is perpendicular to a principal axis of inertia of the body, then…

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A Gauss equation is proved for subspaces of Alexandrov spaces of curvature bounded above by K. That is, a subspace of extrinsic curvature less than or equal to A, defined by a cubic inequality on the difference of arc and chord, has…

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When a physical system is modeled by a nonlinear function, the unknown parameters can be estimated by fitting experimental observations by a least-squares approach. Newton's method and its variants are often used to solve problems of this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Federica Pes , Giuseppe Rodriguez

In this paper we provide some new sufficient conditions that ensure the existence of the solution of a weak vector equilibrium problem in Hausdorff topological vector spaces ordered by a cone. Further, we introduce a dual problem and we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Szilárd László

This paper considers a general convex constrained problem setting where functions are not assumed to be differentiable nor Lipschitz continuous. Our motivation is in finding a simple first-order method for solving a wide range of convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Michael R. Metel , Akiko Takeda

The dual Minkowski problem for even data asks what are the necessary and sufficient conditions on an even prescribed measure on the unit sphere for it to be the $q$-th dual curvature measure of an origin-symmetric convex body in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Károly Böröczky , Erwin Lutwak , Deane Yang , Gaoyong Zhang , Yiming Zhao

We present a short proof of the Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for mixed volumes of convex bodies.

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