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The paper is concerned with the maximization of Laplace eigenvalues on surfaces of given volume with a Riemannian metric in a fixed conformal class. A significant progress on this problem has been recently achieved by Nadirashvili-Sire and…

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We further research on the accelerated optimization phenomenon on Riemannian manifolds by introducing accelerated global first-order methods for the optimization of $L$-smooth and geodesically convex (g-convex) or $\mu$-strongly g-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-16 David Martínez-Rubio

In this paper, we propose an inexact proximal Newton-type method for nonconvex composite problems. We establish the global convergence rate of the order $\mathcal{O}(k^{-1/2})$ in terms of the minimal norm of the KKT residual mapping and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-26 Hong Zhu

The Hamiltonian formalism is extremely elegant and convenient to mechanics problems. However, its application to the classical field theories is a difficult task. In fact, you can set one to one correspondence between the Lagrangian and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-18 D. S. Kulyabov , A. V. Korolkova , L. A. Sevastyanov

We present a novel technique for constructing differentiable order-type operations, including soft ranking, soft top-k selection, and soft permutations. Our approach leverages an efficient closed-form formula for the inverse of the function…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Łukasz Struski , Michał B. Bednarczyk , Igor T. Podolak , Jacek Tabor

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.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-14 Volker Schulz

The partial derivatives and Laplacians of the Zernike circle polynomials occur in various places in the literature on computational optics. In a number of cases, the expansion of these derivatives and Laplacians in the circle polynomials…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Augustus J. E. M Janssen

The first eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a surface can be viewed as a functional on the space of Riemannian metrics of a given area. Critical points of this functional are called extremal metrics. The only known extremal metrics are a round…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Jakobson , Nikolai Nadirashvili , Iosif Polterovich

Given a transportation cost $c: M \times\bar M \to\mathbf{R}$, optimal maps minimize the total cost of moving masses from $M$ to $\bar M$. We find a pseudo-metric and a calibration form on $M\times\bar M$ such that the graph of an optimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-04-13 Young-Heon Kim , Robert J. McCann , Micah Warren

We develop a geometric framework for the numerical integration of mechanical systems evolving on manifolds. After briefly reviewing classical numerical methods and highlighting their limitations and shortcomings in non-flat (non-Euclidean)…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Viyom Vivek , David Martin de Diego , Ravi N. Banavar

Inexact proximal augmented Lagrangian methods (ipALMs) have been widely used for solving linearly constrained convex optimization problems, owing to their strong theoretical guarantees and excellent numerical performance. In practice,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Jiayi Zhu , Ling Liang , Lei Yang , Kim-Chuan Toh

For Laplace operator in one space dimension, we propose to formulate the heuristic finite volume method with the help of mixed Petrov-Galerkin finite elements. Weighting functions for gradient discretization are parameterized by some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-07 François Dubois

These notes focus on the minimization of convex functionals using first-order optimization methods, which are fundamental in many areas of applied mathematics and engineering. The primary goal of this document is to introduce and analyze…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Charles Dossal , Samuel Hurault , Nicolas Papadakis

We prove existence and regularity results for the problem of maximization of one Laplace eigenvalue with respect to metrics of same volume lying in a conformal class of a Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\geq 3$.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Romain Petrides

The matrix completion problem consists of finding or approximating a low-rank matrix based on a few samples of this matrix. We propose a new algorithm for matrix completion that minimizes the least-square distance on the sampling set over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-19 Bart Vandereycken

Optimal transport (OT) naturally arises in a wide range of machine learning applications but may often become the computational bottleneck. Recently, one line of works propose to solve OT approximately by searching the \emph{transport plan}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Weijie Liu , Chao Zhang , Nenggan Zheng , Hui Qian

The eigenvalue problem of the Laplace-Beltrami operators on curved surfaces plays an essential role in the convergence analysis of the numerical simulations of some important geometric partial differential equations which involve this…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Sheng-Gwo Chen , Mei-Hsiu Chi , Jyh-Yang Wu

We present a covariant multisymplectic formulation for the Einstein-Palatini (or Metric-Affine) model of General Relativity (without energy-matter sources). As it is described by a first-order affine Lagrangian (in the derivatives of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Jordi Gaset , Narciso Román-Roy

In metric of spaces $L_{s}, \ 1\leq s\leq\infty$, we obtain exact in order estimates of best $m$-term trigonometric approximations of classes of convolutions of periodic functions, that belong to unit all of space $L_{p}, \ 1\leq…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-03-08 A. S. Serdyuk , T. A. Stepaniuk

In this paper, we derive an optimal first-order Taylor-like formula. In a seminal paper [14], we introduced a new first-order Taylor-like formula that yields a reduced remainder compared to the classical Taylor's formula. Here, we relax the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Joël Chaskalovic , Franck Assous