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We prove weighted anisotropic analytic estimates for solutions of second order elliptic boundary value problems in polyhedra. The weighted analytic classes which we use are the same as those introduced by Guo in 1993 in view of establishing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Martin Costabel , Monique Dauge , Serge Nicaise

Entropy rate is a real valued functional on the space of discrete random sources which lacks a closed formula even for subclasses of sources which have intuitive parameterizations. A good way to overcome this problem is to examine its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-14 Alexander Schönhuth

This paper addresses a multi-scale finite element method for second order linear elliptic equations with arbitrarily rough coefficient. We propose a local oversampling method to construct basis functions that have optimal local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Thomas Y. Hou , Pengfei Liu

The simple entropic method to statistical reconstructing of heterogeneous three-dimensional media from a single two-dimensional image is briefly reported. We apply the entropic descriptor quantifying spatial inhomogeneity that depends on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-18 D. Frączek , W. Olchawa , R. Piasecki , R. Wiśniowski

Multi-dimensional distributions of discrete data that resemble ellipsoids arise in numerous areas of science, statistics, and computational geometry. We describe a complete algebraic algorithm to determine the quadratic form specifying the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-04-20 Rafey Anwar , Madeline Hamilton , Pavel Nadolsky

In this letter we propose the use of physics techniques for entropy determination on constrained parameter optimization problems. The main feature of such techniques, the construction of an unbiased walk on energy space, suggests their use…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. R. Lima , M. Argollo de Menezes

Entropy is a central concept in physics, but can be challenging to calculate even for systems that are easily simulated. This is exacerbated out of equilibrium, where generally little is known about the distribution characterizing simulated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-09 Samuel D. Gelman , Guy Cohen

In this paper we study the polynomial entropy of homeomorphism on compact metric space. We construct a homeomorphism on a compact metric space with vanishing polynomial entropy that it is not equicontinuous. Also we give examples with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Alfonso Artigue , Dante Carrasco-Olivera , Ignacio Monteverde

This paper serves a twofold purpose. First, a unified perspective on diversity indices is introduced based on an entropic basis. It is shown that the class of all linear combinations of the entropic basis, referred to as the class of linear…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Zhiyi Zhang , Michael Grabchak

We show that the values of entropies of multidimensional shifts of finite type (SFTs) are characterized by a certain computation-theoretic property: a real number $h\geq 0$ is the entropy of such an SFT if and only if it is right…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Michael Hochman , Tom Meyerovitch

We describe an approach to improving model fitting and model generalization that considers the entropy of distributions of modelling residuals. We use simple simulations to demonstrate the observational signatures of overfitting on ordered…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-05 Barnaby Rowe

Entropy is a measure of heterogeneity widely used in applied sciences, often when data are collected over space. Recently, a number of approaches has been proposed to include spatial information in entropy. The aim of entropy is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

The Random Permutation Set (RPS) is a new type of set proposed recently, which can be regarded as the generalization of evidence theory. To measure the uncertainty of RPS, the entropy of RPS and its corresponding maximum entropy have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Jiefeng Zhou , Zhen Li , Kang Hao Cheong , Yong Deng

Previous measurements utilizing Maxwell relations to measure change in entropy, $S$, demonstrated remarkable accuracy of measuring the spin-1/2 entropy of electrons in a weakly coupled quantum dot. However, these previous measurements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Tim Child , Owen Sheekey , Silvia Lüscher , Saeed Fallahi , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael Manfra , Joshua Folk

The Markov entropy decomposition (MED) is a recently-proposed, cluster-based simulation method for finite temperature quantum systems with arbitrary geometry. In this paper, we detail numerical algorithms for performing the required steps…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Andrew J. Ferris , David Poulin

We study a curve of Gibbsian families of complex 3x3-matrices and point out new features, absent in commutative finite-dimensional algebras: a discontinuous maximum-entropy inference, a discontinuous entropy distance and non-exposed faces…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Andreas Knauf , Stephan Weis

Entropy and free-energy estimation are key in thermodynamic characterization of simulated systems ranging from spin models through polymers, colloids, protein structure, and drug-design. Current techniques suffer from being model specific,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-30 Ram Avinery , Micha Kornreich , Roy Beck

Characterizing the entropy of a system is a crucial, and often computationally costly, step in understanding its thermodynamics. It plays a key role in the study of phase transitions, pattern formation, protein folding and more. Current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-02 Amit Nir , Eran Sela , Roy Beck , Yohai Bar-Sinai

Recently we proposed an information entropy based method for electronic structure calculations within the density-matrix functional theory(DMFT) (Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013001), dubbed as $i$-DMFT. Comments have been raised regarding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Jian Wang , Evert Jan Baerends

Let $f$ be a $C^r$ ($r>1$) diffeomorphism on a compact surface $M$ with $h_{\rm top}(f)\geq\frac{\lambda^{+}(f)}{r}$ where $\lambda^{+}(f):=\lim_{n\to+\infty}\frac{1}{n}\max_{x\in M}\log \left\|Df^{n}_{x}\right\|$. We establish an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Yuntao Zang