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Spherical Whittle--Mat\'ern Gaussian random fields are considered as solutions to fractional elliptic stochastic partial differential equations on the sphere. Approximation is done with surface finite elements. While the non-fractional part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Erik Jansson , Mihály Kovács , Annika Lang

Satellites mapping the spatial variations of the gravitational or magnetic fields of the Earth or other planets ideally fly on polar orbits, uniformly covering the entire globe. Thus, potential fields on the sphere are usually expressed in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-17 Frederik J. Simons , F. A. Dahlen

This paper considers the approximation of spatial convolution with a given radial integral kernel. Previous studies have demonstrated that approximating spatial convolution using a system of partial differential equations (PDEs) can…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Hiroshi Ishii , Yoshitaro Tanaka

This work investigates finite differences and the use of interpolation models to obtain approximations to the first and second derivatives of a function. Here, it is shown that if a particular set of points is used in the interpolation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Ian D. Coope , Rachael Tappenden

Symmetries play an critical role in finding analytic solutions to nonlinear differential equations. A symmetry is a mapping of the solutions of the differential equation into the solutions and have been studied extensively for over a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Stanly Steinberg , Rubens de Melo Marinho Junior

Numerical methods in spin-foam models have significantly advanced in the last few years, yet challenges remain in efficiently extracting results for amplitudes with many quantum degrees of freedom. In this paper we sketch a proposal for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Seth K. Asante , José Diogo Simão , Sebastian Steinhaus

In this paper we derive a moment relaxation for large-scale nonsmooth optimization problems with graphical structure and spherical constraints. In contrast to classical moment relaxations for global polynomial optimization that suffer from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Robin Kenis , Emanuel Laude , Panagiotis Patrinos

The spherical-radial decomposition (SRD) is an efficient method for estimating probabilistic functions and their gradients defined over finite-dimensional elliptical distributions. In this work, we generalize the SRD to infinite stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Kewei Wang , Georg Stadler

The paper presents a new and simple range characterization for the spherical mean transform of functions supported in the unit ball in even dimensions. It complements the previous work of the same authors, where they solved an analogous…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Divyansh Agrawal , Gaik Ambartsoumian , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan , Nisha Singhal

The challenge of approximating functions in infinite-dimensional spaces from finite samples is widely regarded as formidable. We delve into the challenging problem of the numerical approximation of Sobolev-smooth functions defined on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Massimo Fornasier , Pascal Heid , Giacomo Enrico Sodini

We present new algorithms and fast implementations to find efficient approximations for modelling stochastic processes. For many numerical computations it is essential to develop finite approximations for stochastic processes. While the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Kipngeno Benard Kirui , Georg Ch. Pflug , Alois Pichler

This work presents the construction of a novel spherical wavelet basis designed for incomplete spherical datasets, i.e. datasets which are missing in a particular region of the sphere. The eigenfunctions of the Slepian spatial-spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Patrick J. Roddy , Jason D. McEwen

Subspaces obtained by the orthogonal projection of locally supported square-integrable vector fields onto the Hardy spaces $H_+(\mathbb{S})$ and $H_-(\mathbb{S})$, respectively, play a role in various inverse potential field problems since…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Christian Gerhards , Xinpeng Huang

Many standard structural quantities, such as order parameters and correlation functions, exist for common condensed matter systems, such as spherical and rod-like particles. However, these structural quantities are often insufficient for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-18 Aaron S. Keys , Christopher R. Iacovella , Sharon C. Glotzer

In a previous work we showcased the factorization method to find the symmetries of superintegrable systems with spherical separability in flat spaces. Here we analyze the same problem, but in constant curvature spaces along the examples of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Sergio Salamanca

The generation of decision-theoretic Bayesian optimal designs is complicated by the significant computational challenge of minimising an analytically intractable expected loss function over a, potentially, high-dimensional design space. A…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-02-07 Antony M. Overstall , James M. McGree , Christopher C. Drovandi

We introduce computable projection operators onto piecewise polynomial spaces, defined via sampling and discrete least-squares polynomial approximations. The resulting mappings exhibit (almost) optimal approximation properties in $L^2$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Johannes Storn

We present a rigorous convergence analysis for cylindrical approximations of nonlinear functionals, functional derivatives, and functional differential equations (FDEs). The purpose of this analysis is twofold: first, we prove that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Daniele Venturi , Alec Dektor

Obtaining general relations between macroscopic properties of random assemblies, such as density, and the microscopic properties of their constituent particles, such as shape, is a foundational challenge in the study of amorphous materials.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-05 Yoav Kallus

In this work, we develop new optimization algorithms that use approximate second-order information combined with the gradient regularization technique to achieve fast global convergence rates for both convex and non-convex objectives. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Andrei Semenov , Martin Jaggi , Nikita Doikov