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Optimization problems with norm-bounding constraints arise in a variety of applications, including portfolio optimization, machine learning, and feature selection. A common approach to these problems involves relaxing the norm constraint…

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We investigate how to minimize the work dissipated during nonequilibrium processes. To this end, we employ methods from linear response theory to describe slowly varying processes, i.e., processes operating within the linear regime around…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-03 Marcus V. S. Bonança , Sebastian Deffner

Constrained mechanical multibody systems arise in many important applications like robotics, vehicle and machinery dynamics and biomechanics of locomotion of humans. These systems are described by the Euler-Lagrange equations which are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Brahim Benhammouda

The Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics is widely applicable in solving a vast array of physics problems encountered in the undergraduate and graduate physics curriculum. Unfortunately, many treatments of the topic lack…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Gerd Wagner , Matthew W. Guthrie

We generalize the fractional variational problem by allowing the possibility that the lower bound in the fractional derivative does not coincide with the lower bound of the integral that is minimized. Also, for the standard case when these…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Teodor M. Atanackovic , Sanja Konjik , Stevan Pilipovic

Flow matching trains a neural velocity field by regression against a target velocity associated with a prescribed probability path connecting a simple initial distribution to the data distribution. A central design choice is the path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Shukai Du , Junzhe Zhang , Yiming Li

Considering the paradigmatic driven Brownian motion, we perform extensive numerical analysis on the performance of optimal linear-response processes far from equilibrium. We focus on the overdamped regime where exact optimal processes are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-28 Lucas P. Kamizaki , Marcus V. S. Bonança , Sérgio R. muniz

We study the three-dimensional isothermal Euler equations with linear damping and an exterior potential. For sufficiently large damping, we prove global well-posedness for arbitrarily large initial data by combining a parabolic comparison…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Young-Pil Choi , Houzhi Tang , Weiyuan Zou

A new analytic approximate technique for addressing nonlinear problems, namely the optimal perturbation iteration method, is introduced and implemented to singular initial value Lane-Emden type problems to test the effectiveness and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Necdet Bildik , Sinan Deniz

A simple procedure is presented to study the conservation of energy equation with dissipation in continuum mechanics in 1D. This procedure is used to transform this nonlinear evolution-diffusion equation into a hyperbolic PDE; specifically,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Hamid A Said

Run-and-tumble particles constitute one of the simplest models of self-propelled active matter, and provide an ideal playground to the understanding of out-of-equilibrium systems. We consider an idealized setup where one such particle is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-05 Marco Baldovin , Alessandro Manacorda

In this paper, we focus on nonlinear infinite-norm minimization problems that have many applications, especially in computer science and operations research. We set a reliable Lagrangian dual aproach for solving this kind of problems in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-06-07 Wajeb Gharibi , Yong Xia

The development of efficient artificial nanodevices poses challenges which are of fundamental and technological nature. Recent progress has been made in the context of finite-time thermodynamics. A central question in finite-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-18 Mario Einax

The log-homotopy particle flow filter resolves the Bayesian update by transporting particles along a continuous trajectory in pseudo-time. However, the governing partial differential equation for the flow velocity is fundamentally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Olivér Törő , Domonkos Csuzdi , Tamás Bécsi

The modeling of many phenomena in various fields such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, and astronomy is done by the nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE). The hyperbolic telegraph equation is one of them,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Ahmed K. Al-Jaberi , Ehsan M. Hameed , Mohammed S. Abdul-Wahab

In this contribution, we generalize the concept of \textit{optimally accurate operators} proposed and used in a series of studies on the simulation of seismic wave propagation, particularly based on Geller \& Takeuchi (1995). Although these…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 Nobuaki Fuji , Thibault Duretz

The linear programming (LP) approach is, together with value iteration and policy iteration, one of the three fundamental methods to solve optimal control problems in a dynamic programming setting. Despite its simple formulation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Lucia Falconi , Andrea Martinelli , John Lygeros

We consider the numerical construction of minimal Lagrangian graphs, which is related to recent applications in materials science, molecular engineering, and theoretical physics. It is known that this problem can be formulated as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Jacob Lesniewski

The main purpose of this article is to establish new uniqueness results for Calder\'on type inverse problems related to damped nonlocal wave equations. To achieve this goal we extend the theory of very weak solutions to our setting, which…

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