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Graphical models provide powerful tools to uncover complicated patterns in multivariate data and are commonly used in Bayesian statistics and machine learning. In this paper, we introduce the R package BDgraph which performs Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Reza Mohammadi , Ernst C. Wit

The laws of geometric optics and their corrections are derived for scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational waves propagating in generic curved spacetimes. Local peeling-type results are obtained, where different components of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-08 Abraham I. Harte

A possible solution to the problem of providing a spacetime description of the transmission of signals for quantum entangled states is obtained by using a bimetric spacetime structure, in which quantum entanglement measurements alter the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 J. W. Moffat

We study three computer algebra systems, namely SageMath (with SageManifolds package), Maxima (with ctensor package) and Python language (with GraviPy module), which allow tensor manipulation for general relativity calculations along with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-19 Tolga Birkandan , Ceren Güzelgün , Elif Şirin , Mustafa Can Uslu

Modern astrometry is based on angular measurements at the micro-arcsecond level. At this accuracy a fully general relativistic treatment of the data reduction is required. This paper concludes a series of articles dedicated to the problem…

We present a novel methodology based on geometric approach to simulate magnification lens effects. Our aim is to promote new applications of powerful geometric modeling techniques in visual computing. Conventional image…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Bo Li , Xin Zhao

We introduce a new algorithm for the calculation of multidimensional optical depths in approximate radiative transport schemes, equally applicable to neutrinos and photons. Motivated by (but not limited to) neutrino transport in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 A. Perego , E. Gafton , R. Cabezon , S. Rosswog , M. Liebendoerfer

In today's modern wide-field galaxy surveys, there is the necessity for parametric surface brightness decomposition codes characterised by accuracy, small degree of user intervention, and high degree of parallelisation. We try to address…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-03 Luca Tortorelli , Amata Mercurio

LIGO and Virgo have initiated the era of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy; but in order to fully explore GW frequency spectrum, we must turn our attention to innovative techniques for GW detection. One such approach is to use binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Diego Blas , Alexander C. Jenkins

The design and optimization of radiofrequency-wave systems for fusion applications is often performed using ray-tracing codes, which rely on the geometrical-optics (GO) approximation. However, GO fails at wave cutoffs and caustics. To…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-18 Sean M. Donnelly , Nicolas A. Lopez , I. Y. Dodin

This is a research announcement on what is best termed `nonlocal' methods in mathematics. (This is not to be confused with global analysis.) The nonlocal formulation of physics in \cite{principia} points to a fresh viewpoint in mathematics:…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mukul Patel

Determining visibility in planar polygons and arrangements is an important subroutine for many algorithms in computational geometry. In this paper, we report on new implementations, and corresponding experimental evaluations, for two…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Francisc Bungiu , Michael Hemmer , John Hershberger , Kan Huang , Alexander Kröller

We apply a generic formalism of light propagation to linearly perturbed spherically symmetric dust models including a cosmological constant. For a comoving observer on the central worldline, we derive the equation of geodesic deviation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-06 Sven Meyer , Matthias Bartelmann

Efficient exploration of vast compositional and processing spaces is essential for accelerated materials discovery. Bayesian optimization (BO) provides a principled strategy for identifying optimal materials with minimal experiments, yet…

We show that the Big Bang Observer (BBO), a proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector, would provide ultra-precise measurements of cosmological parameters. By detecting ~300,000 compact-star binaries, and utilizing them as…

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Information geometric optimization (IGO) is a general framework for stochastic optimization problems aiming at limiting the influence of arbitrary parametrization choices. The initial problem is transformed into the optimization of a smooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-07 Jérémy Bensadon

Starting from a generalized Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, we develop a new framework for constructing observables and their evolution in theories invariant under global time reparametrizations. Our proposal relaxes the usual Dirac prescription…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 Sean Gryb , Karim Thebault

Autonomous scene exposure and exploration, especially in localization or communication-denied areas, useful for finding targets in unknown scenes, remains a challenging problem in computer navigation. In this work, we present a novel method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tom Avrech , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Chaim Baskin , Ehud Rivlin

Classification of galactic morphologies is a crucial task in galactic astronomy, and identifying fine structures of galaxies (e.g., spiral arms, bars, and clumps) is an essential ingredient in such a classification task. However, seeing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-30 Fang Kai Gan , Kenji Bekki , Abdolhosein Hashemizadeh

The paper presents an ab initio account of the paraxial complex geometrical optics (CGO) in application to a scalar Gaussian beam propagation and diffraction in a 3D smoothly inhomogeneous medium. The paraxial CGO deals with quadratic…

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