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In this contribution, we present a variational space-time formulation which generates an optimal feed-forward controller for geometrically exact strings. More concretely, the optimization problem is solved with an indirect approach, and the…

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We generalize the classical calculus rules satisfied by functions of bounded variation to the framework of RCD spaces. In the infinite dimensional setting we are able to define an analogue of the distributional differential and on finite…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Camillo Brena , Nicola Gigli

We introduce a novel formulation for geometry on discrete points. It is based on a universal differential calculus, which gives a geometric description of a discrete set by the algebra of functions. We expand this mathematical framework so…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Yuuya Takayama

Solving optimization tasks based on functions and losses with a topological flavor is a very active, growing field of research in data science and Topological Data Analysis, with applications in non-convex optimization, statistics and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Mathieu Carrière , Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Yuichi Ike , Hariprasad Kannan

We consider the task of decentralized minimization of the sum of smooth strongly convex functions stored across the nodes of a network. For this problem, lower bounds on the number of gradient computations and the number of communication…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Dmitry Kovalev , Adil Salim , Peter Richtárik

We propose an optimal approximation formula for analytic functions that are defined on a complex region containing the real interval $(-1,1)$ and possibly have algebraic singularities at the endpoints of the interval. As a space of such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Ken'ichiro Tanaka , Tomoaki Okayama , Masaaki Sugihara

Neuroscientific studies of drawing-like movements usually analyze neural representation of either geometric (eg. direction, shape) or temporal (eg. speed) features of trajectories rather than trajectory's representation as a whole. This…

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The path integral formulation of constrained systems leads to obtain the equations of motion as total differential equations in many variables. If these equations are integrable then one can constuct a valid and a canonical phase space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sami I. Muslih

A variant of the classical optimal transportation problem is: among all joint measures with fixed marginals and which are dominated by a given density, find the optimal one. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to this variant were…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

In this article, we develop a numerical method to find optimal control pulses that accounts for the separation of timescales between the variation of the input control fields and the applied Hamiltonian. In traditional numerical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-19 F. Motzoi , J. M. Gambetta , S. T. Merkel , F. K. Wilhelm

In this thesis we develop a functional analytic framework for shape optimization with elliptic partial differential equation (PDE) constraints in classical function spaces (H\"older spaces). This approach is motivated by shape optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Laura Bittner

The fundamental problem of the calculus of variations on time scales concerns the minimization of a delta-integral over all trajectories satisfying given boundary conditions. This includes the discrete-time, the quantum, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-29 Agnieszka B. Malinowska , Delfim F. M. Torres

Based on Stokes' theorem we derive a non-holomorphic functional calculus for matrices, assuming sufficient smoothness near eigenvalues, corresponding to the size of related Jordan blocks. It is then applied to the complex conjugation…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Olavi Nevanlinna

Fractional operators play an important role in modeling nonlocal phenomena and problems involving coarse-grained and fractal spaces. The fractional calculus of variations with functionals depending on derivatives and/or integrals of…

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We study the problem concerning the variation of the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function in higher dimensions. As the main result, we prove that the variation of the non-centered Hardy-Littlewood maximal function of a radial function is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Hannes Luiro

Paper is devoted to extremal problems in geometric function theory of complex variables associated with estimates of functionals defined on the systems of non-overlapping domains. In particular, we strengthen some known result in this…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-12-06 A. K. Bakhtin , G. P. Bakhtina , V. E. Vjun

The maximally compact representation of a regular orbit is in terms of its action-angle variables. Computing the map between a trajectory's Cartesian coordinates and its action-angle variables is called torus construction. This article…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Monica Valluri , David Merritt

The main purpose of the paper is to study sharp estimates of approximation of periodic functions in the H\"older spaces $H_p^{r,\alpha}$ for all $0<p\le\infty$ and $0<\alpha\le r$. By using modifications of the classical moduli of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Yurii Kolomoitsev , Jürgen Prestin

The result of performing integrations over connection type variables in the path integral for the discrete field theory may be poorly defined in the case of non-compact gauge group with the Haar measure exponentially growing in some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 V. M. Khatsymovsky

We present a discretization of the dynamic optimal transport problem for which we can obtain the convergence rate for the value of the transport cost to its continuous value when the temporal and spatial stepsize vanish. This convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Sadashige Ishida , Hugo Lavenant