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This paper introduces first order Sobolev spaces on certain rectifiable varifolds. These complete locally convex spaces are contained in the generally nonlinear class of generalised weakly differentiable functions and share key functional…

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We prove that any given function can be smoothly approximated by functions lying in the kernel of a linear operator involving at least one fractional component. The setting in which we work is very general, since it takes into account…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-22 Alessandro Carbotti , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

Inverse problems in scientific computing often require optimization over infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. A commonly used solver in such settings is stochastic gradient descent (SGD), where gradients are approximated using randomly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Sandra Cerrai , Qin Li , Anjali Nair , Jaeyoung Yoon

Gradient-based techniques are becoming increasingly critical in quantitative fields, notably in statistics and computer science. The utility of these techniques, however, ultimately depends on how efficiently we can evaluate the derivatives…

Computation · Statistics 2020-02-04 Michael Betancourt , Charles C. Margossian , Vianey Leos-Barajas

The article considers the discrete analogue of the method of quickest descent for an inverse Acoustics problem in case of a smooth source. The authors derived the gradient of functional in differential and discrete cases, described the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-01-19 G. Tyulepberdinova , G. Gaziz , N. Kerimbayev , S. Abdykarimova

We address the study of nonlocal gradients defined through general radial kernels $\rho$. Our investigation focuses on the properties of the associated function spaces, which depend on the characteristics of the kernel function.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-27 José Carlos Bellido , Carlos Mora-Corral , Hidde Schönberger

Aiming at optimizing the shape of closed embedded curves within prescribed isotopy classes, we use a gradient-based approach to approximate stationary points of the M\"obius energy. The gradients are computed with respect to Sobolev inner…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Philipp Reiter , Henrik Schumacher

Some results on the approximation of functions from the Sobolev spaces on metric graphs by step functions are obtained. The estimates are uniform with respect to all graphs of a given finite length, and the constant factors in the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Solomyak

In this paper, we expand upon the theory of the space of functions with nonlocal weighted bounded variation, first introduced by Kindermann et.al. in 2005 and later generalized by Wang et.al. in 2014. We consider nonfractional C^1 weights…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Francesc Alcover , Joan Duran , Ramon Oliver-Bonafoux , Catalina Sbert

We obtain some nonlocal characterizations for a class of variable exponent Sobolev spaces arising in nonlinear elasticity, in the theory of electrorheological fluids as well as in image processing for the regions where the variable exponent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Ivan Cinelli , Gianluca Ferrari , Marco Squassina

We investigate smooth approximations of functions, with prescribed gradient behavior on a distinguished stratified subset of the domain. As an application, we outline how our results yield important consequences for a recently introduced…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-07-21 D. Drusvyatskiy , M. Larsson

We approximate functions defined on smooth bounded domains by elements of the eigenspaces of the Laplacian or the Stokes operator in such a way that the approximations are bounded and converge in both Sobolev and Lebesgue spaces. We prove…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Charles L. Fefferman , Karol W. Hajduk , James C. Robinson

We consider a countably generated and uniformly closed algebra of bounded functions. We assume that there is a lower semicontinuous, with respect to the supremum norm, quadratic form and that normal contractions operate in a certain sense.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Michael Hinz , Alexander Teplyaev

A dynamical generalisation of the nonlocal coherent-potential approximation is derived based upon the functional integral approach to the interacting electron problem. The free energy is proven to be variational with respect to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-25 D. A. Rowlands , Yu-Zhong Zhang

In this work the implicit function theorem is used for searching local symbolic resolution of differential equations. General results of existence for first order equations are proven and some examples, one relative to cavitation in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Gianluca Argentini

We use discrete holomorphic polynomials to prove that, given a refining sequence of critical maps of a Riemann surface, any holomorphic function can be approximated by a converging sequence of discrete holomorphic functions.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Mercat

Direct and inverse approximation theorems are proved in the Besicovitch-Stepanets spaces $B{\mathcal S}^{p}$ of almost periodic functions in terms of the best approximations of functions and their generalized moduli of smoothness.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Anatolii Serdyuk , Andrii Shidlich

We present a systematic study on a class of nonlocal integral functionals for functions defined on a bounded domain and the naturally induced function spaces. The function spaces are equipped with a seminorm depending on finite differences…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-19 James M. Scott , Qiang Du

We comment on the discretization of the Dirac equation using finite element spaces of differential forms. In order to treat perturbations by low order terms, such as those arizing from electromagnetic fields, we develop some abstract…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Snorre H. Christiansen

We consider approximation problems for a special space of d variate functions. We show that the problems have small number of active variables, as it has been postulated in the past using concentration of measure arguments. We also show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-25 Markus Hegland , Greg W. Wasilkowski