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The manuscript addresses the problem of finding all solutions of power flow equations or other similar nonlinear system of algebraic equations. This problem arises naturally in a number of power systems contexts, most importantly in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-08-13 Dhagash Mehta , Hung Nguyen , Konstantin Turitsyn

We complete the complexity classification by degree of minimizing a polynomial over the integer points in a polyhedron in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Previous work shows that optimizing a quadratic polynomial over the integer points in a polyhedral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Alberto Del Pia , Robert Hildebrand , Robert Weismantel , Kevin Zemmer

We introduce the concept of homotopy iterators for performing polynomial homotopy continuation tasks in a memory efficient manner. The main idea is to push forward an iterator for the start solutions of a homotopy via the function which…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Paul Breiding , Taylor Brysiewicz , Hannah Friedman

Consider the polynomial optimization problem whose objective and constraints are all described by multivariate polynomials. Under some genericity assumptions, %% on these polynomials, we prove that the optimality conditions always hold on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-02-12 Jiawang Nie , Kristian Ranestad

We develop a tropical analogue of the classical double description method allowing one to compute an internal representation (in terms of vertices) of a polyhedron defined externally (by inequalities). The heart of the tropical algorithm is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Xavier Allamigeon , Stephane Gaubert , Eric Goubault

Many combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated as the search for a subgraph that satisfies certain properties and minimizes the total weight. We assume here that the vertices correspond to points in a metric space and can take…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Marin Bougeret , Jérémy Omer , Michael Poss

The mathematical framework of hybrid system is a recent and general tool to treat control systems involving control action of heterogeneous nature. In this paper, we construct and test a semi-Lagrangian numerical scheme for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Roberto Ferretti , Achille Sassi

In most global optimization problems, finding global optimal point inthe multidimensional and great search space needs high computations. In this paper, we present a new approach to find global optimal point with the low computation and few…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Masoumeh Vali

This paper is devoted to the study of infinitesimal limit cycles that can bifurcate from zero-Hopf equilibria of differential systems based on the averaging method. We develop an efficient symbolic program using Maple for computing the…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Bo Huang

We introduce the Cox homotopy algorithm for solving a sparse system of polynomial equations on a compact toric variety $X_\Sigma$. The algorithm lends its name from a construction, described by Cox, of $X_\Sigma$ as a GIT quotient $X_\Sigma…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Timothy Duff , Simon Telen , Elise Walker , Thomas Yahl

In this note we give a short overview on symmetry exploiting techniques in three different branches of polyhedral computations: The representation conversion problem, integer linear programming and lattice point counting. We describe some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-23 Achill Schürmann

This paper is concerned with Lagrange interpolation by total degree polynomials in moderate dimensions. In particular, we are interested in characterising the optimal choice of points for the interpolation problem, where we define the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Max Gunzburger , Aretha L Teckentrup

Polynomial system solving arises in many application areas to model non-linear geometric properties. In such settings, polynomial systems may come with degeneration which the end-user wants to exclude from the solution set. The…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Christian Eder , Pierre Lairez , Rafael Mohr , Mohab Safey El Din

Nonlinear two-point boundary value problems arise in numerous areas of application. The existence and number of solutions for various cases has been studied from a theoretical standpoint. These results generally rely upon growth conditions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. L. Allgower , D. J. Bates , A. J. Sommese , C. W. Wampler

Developing efficient and guaranteed nonconvex algorithms has been an important challenge in modern machine learning. Algorithms with good empirical performance such as stochastic gradient descent often lack theoretical guarantees. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-15 Anima Anandkumar , Yuan Deng , Rong Ge , Hossein Mobahi

This paper describes an approximate method for global optimization of polynomial programming problems with bounded variables. The method uses a reformulation and linearization technique to transform the original polynomial optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-05-30 Joseph W. Norman

We apply methods and techniques of tropical optimization to develop a new theoretical and computational framework for the implementation of the Analytic Hierarchy Process in multi-criteria problems of rating alternatives from pairwise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Nikolai Krivulin , Sergei Sergeev

The Moment/Sum-of-squares hierarchy provides a way to compute the global minimizers of polynomial optimization problems (POP), at the cost of solving a sequence of increasingly large semidefinite programs (SDPs). We consider large-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Johannes Aspman , Gilles Bareilles , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jakub Marecek , Martin Takáč

We provide formulas and algorithms for computing the excess numbers of certain ideals. The solution for monomial ideals is given by the mixed volumes of certain polytopes. These results enable us to design specific homotopies for numerical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Jose Rodriguez

A polyhedral method to solve a system of polynomial equations exploits its sparse structure via the Newton polytopes of the polynomials. We propose a hybrid symbolic-numeric method to compute a Puiseux series expansion for every space curve…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Nathan Bliss , Jan Verschelde