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A method is suggested for treating those complicated physical problems for which exact solutions are not known but a few approximation terms of a calculational algorithm can be derived. The method permits one to answer the following rather…

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We obtain a new upper bound for binary sums with multiplicative characters over variables belong to some sets, having small additive doubling.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Aleksei S. Volostnov

We prove upper and lower bounds for certain sums of products of fractional parts by using majoring and minorizing functions from Fourier analysis. In special cases the upper bounds are sharp if there exist counterexamples to the Littlewood…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-09-09 Thai Hoang Le , Jeffrey D. Vaaler

Providing finite-time probabilistic safety and reach-avoid guarantees is crucial for safety-critical stochastic systems. Existing state-of-the-art barrier methods often rely on a restrictive boundedness assumption for auxiliary functions,…

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We develop a new analysis for the length of controlled bad sequences in well-quasi-orderings based on Higman's Lemma. This leads to tight multiply-recursive upper bounds that readily apply to several verification algorithms for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Sylvain Schmitz , Philippe Schnoebelen

We present a theory for simultaneous approximation of the score function and its derivatives, enabling the handling of data distributions with low-dimensional structure and unbounded support. Our approximation error bounds match those in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Konstantin Yakovlev , Nikita Puchkin

We calculate arbitrarily tight upper and lower bounds on an unconstrained control, linear-quadratic, singularly perturbed optimal control problem whose exact solution is computationally intractable. It is well known that for the…

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We prove that the maximum of two smooth strictly plurisubharmonic functions on an almost complex manifold can be uniformly approximated by smooth strictly plurisubharmonic functions.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2013-04-01 Alexandre Sukhov

In this paper, a new upper bound for the Multiple Knapsack Problem (MKP) is proposed, based on the idea of relaxing MKP to a {\em Bounded Sequential Multiple Knapsack Problem}, i.e., a multiple knapsack problem in which item sizes are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-12 Paolo Detti

This article uses a combination of three ideas from simulation to establish a nearly optimal polynomial upper bound for the joint density of the stable process and its associated supremum at a fixed time on the entire support of the joint…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Jorge González Cázares , Arturo Kohatsu Higa , Aleksandar Mijatović

In this paper, a sample-based procedure for obtaining simple and computable approximations of chance-constrained sets is proposed. The procedure allows to control the complexity of the approximating set, by defining families of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Martina Mammarella , Victor Mirasierra , Matthias Lorenzen , Teodoro Alamo , Fabrizio Dabbene

This work establishes a new upper bound on the number of samples sufficient for PAC learning in the realizable case. The bound matches known lower bounds up to numerical constant factors. This solves a long-standing open problem on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Steve Hanneke

Let $\alpha$ be a Steinhaus random multiplicative function. For a wide class of multiplicative functions $f$ we construct a multiplicative chaos measure arising from the Dirichlet series of $\alpha f$, in the whole $L^1$-regime. Our method…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Ofir Gorodetsky , Mo Dick Wong

We prove a fiberwise almost sure invariance principle for random piecewise expanding transformations in one and higher dimensions using recent developments on martingale techniques.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-05 D. Dragicevic , G. Froyland , C. González-Tokman , S. Vaienti

We present and discuss general techniques for proving inapproximability results for truthful mechanisms. We make use of these techniques to prove lower bounds on the approximability of several non-utilitarian multi-parameter problems. In…

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Coherent lower previsions are general probabilistic models allowing incompletely specified probability distributions. However, for complete description of a coherent lower prevision -- even on finite underlying sample spaces -- an infinite…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Damjan Škulj

In this article, we consider a simple representation for real numbers and propose top-down procedures to approximate various algebraic and transcendental operations with arbitrary precision. Detailed algorithms and proofs are provided to…

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This paper depicts algorithms for solving the decision Boolean Satisfiability Problem. An extreme problem is formulated to analyze the complexity of algorithms and the complexity for solving it. A novel and easy reformulation as a lottery…

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We construct a family of functions suitable for establishing lower bounds on the oracle complexity of first-order minimization of smooth strongly-convex functions. Based on this construction, we derive new lower bounds on the complexity of…

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