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When applying Hamiltonian operator splitting methods for the time integration of multi-species Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau systems, the reliable and efficient numerical approximation of the Landau equation represents a fundamental component of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Jose Antonio Carrillo , Mechthild Thalhammer

Efficient solution of the lowest eigenmodes is studied for a family of related eigenvalue problems with common $2\times 2$ block structure. It is assumed that the upper diagonal block varies between different versions while the lower…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Antti Hannukainen , Jarmo Malinen , Antti Ojalammi

This contribution presents an integration method based on the Simpson quadrature. The integrator is designed for finite-dimensional nonlinear mechanical systems that derive from variational principles. The action is discretized using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Juan Antonio Rojas-Quintero , François Dubois , Frédéric Jourdan

Composite minimization involves a collection of smooth functions which are aggregated in a nonsmooth manner. In the convex setting, we design an algorithm by linearizing each smooth component in accordance with its main curvature. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Jérôme Bolte , Zheng Chen , Edouard Pauwels

This paper concerns the asymptotic expansion of the solution of the Dirichlet-Laplace problem in a domain with small inclusions. This problem is well understood for the Neumann condition in dimension greater than two or Dirichlet condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Virginie Bonnaillie-Noël , Marc Dambrine , Christophe Lacave

We use a suitable transform related to Sobolev inequality to investigate the sharp constants and optimizers for some Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg-type inequalities which are related to the weighted $p$-Laplace equations. Moreover, we give the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Shengbing Deng , Xingliang Tian

Laplace's method approximates a target density with a Gaussian distribution at its mode. It is computationally efficient and asymptotically exact for Bayesian inference due to the Bernstein-von Mises theorem, but for complex targets and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hanlin Yu , Marcelo Hartmann , Bernardo Williams , Mark Girolami , Arto Klami

We establish the convergence of an adaptive spline-based finite element method of a fourth order elliptic problem.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Ibrahim Al Balushi

Moreau's seminal paper, introducing what is now called the Moreau envelope and the proximity operator (also known as the proximal mapping), appeared in 1965. The Moreau envelope of a given convex function provides a regularized version…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Heinz H. Bauschke , Minh N. Dao , Scott B. Lindstrom

In this work, we present a novel approach for solving stochastic shape optimization problems. Our method is the extension of the classical stochastic gradient method to infinite-dimensional shape manifolds. We prove convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

In this note we introduce some nonlinear extremal nonlocal operators that approximate the, so called, truncated Laplacians. For these operators we construct representation formulas that lead to the construction of what, with an abuse of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-26 Isabeau Birindelli , Giulio Galise , Erwin Topp

We first survey the current state of the art concerning the dynamical properties of multidimensional continued fraction algorithms defined dynamically as piecewise fractional maps and compare them with algorithms based on lattice reduction.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Valerie Berthé , Karma Dajani , Charlene Kalle , Ela Krawczyk , Hamide Kuru , Andrea Thevis

In this paper we will show that monomial summability can be characterized using Borel-Laplace like integral transformations depending of a parameter $0<s<1$. We will apply this result to prove 1-summability in a monomial of formal solutions…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Sergio A. Carrillo , Jorge Mozo-Fernández

This note reviews some of the recent work on biharmonic conformal maps (see \cite{OC}, Chapter 11, for a detailed survey). It will be focused on biharmonic conformal immersions and biharmonic conformal maps between manifolds of the same…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-12 Ye-Lin Ou

Composite optimization problems, where the sum of a smooth and a merely lower semicontinuous function has to be minimized, are often tackled numerically by means of proximal gradient methods as soon as the lower semicontinuous part of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz

The fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$ is a non-local operator which depends on the parameter $\alpha$ and recovers the usual Laplacian as $\alpha \to 2$. A numerical method for the fractional Laplacian is proposed, based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Yanghong Huang , Adam Oberman

The main objective of this paper is to give a wide study on the conformable fractional Legendre polynomials (CFLPs). This study is assumed to be a generalization and refinement, in an easy way, of the scalar case into the context of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Mhmoud Abul-Ez , Ali Youssef , Mohra Zayed , Manuel De la Sen

The Laplace-Beltrami problem on closed surfaces embedded in three dimensions arises in many areas of physics, including molecular dynamics (surface diffusion), electromagnetics (harmonic vector fields), and fluid dynamics (vesicle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Tristan Goodwill , Michael O'Neil

The use of Laplacian eigenbases has been shown to be fruitful in many computer graphics applications. Today, state-of-the-art approaches to shape analysis, synthesis, and correspondence rely on these natural harmonic bases that allow using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 A. Kovnatsky , M. M. Bronstein , A. M. Bronstein , K. Glashoff , R. Kimmel

The paper is devoted to the conjecture that an equation is Darboux integrable if and only if it possesses symmetries depending on arbitrary functions. We note that results of previous works together prove this conjecture for scalar partial…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-12-04 S. Ya. Startsev