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One proposal to compute parton distributions from first principles is the large momentum effective theory (LaMET), which requires the Fourier transform of matrix elements computed non-perturbatively. Lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD)…

The randomized quantum marginal problem asks about the joint distribution of the partial traces ("marginals") of a uniform random Hermitian operator with fixed spectrum acting on a space of tensors. We introduce a new approach to this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Sho Matsumoto , Colin McSwiggen

Modeling dispersed solid phases in fluids still represents a computational challenge when considering a small-scale coupling in wide systems, such as the atmosphere or industrial processes at high Reynolds numbers. A numerical method is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-13 François Laenen , Giorgio Krstulovic , Jérémie Bec

This paper studies generalized truncated moment problems with unbounded sets. First, we study geometric properties of the truncated moment cone and its dual cone of nonnegative polynomials. By the technique of homogenization, we give a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Lei Huang , Jiawang Nie , Ya-Xiang Yuan

Motivated by the study of the convex hull of the trajectory of a Brownian motion in the unit disk reflected orthogonally at its boundary, we study inhomogeneous fragmentation processes in which particles of mass $m \in (0,1)$ split at a…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Bénédicte Haas , Bastien Mallein

We address the initial source identification problem for the heat equation, a notably ill-posed inverse problem characterized by exponential instability. Departing from classical Tikhonov regularization, we propose a novel approach based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Kang Liu , Enrique Zuazua

We study an inverse problem that consists in estimating the first (zero-order) moment of some R2-valued distribution m supported within a closed interval S $\subset$ R, from partial knowledge of the solution to the Poisson-Laplace partial…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Juliette Leblond , Elodie Pozzi

We derive a moment formula for generalized fractional polynomial processes, i.e., for polynomial-preserving Markov processes time-changed by an inverse L\'evy-subordinator. If the time change is inverse $\alpha$-stable, the time-derivative…

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Over the last two decades, anomalous diffusion processes in which the mean squares variance grows slower or faster than that in a Gaussian process have found many applications. At a macroscopic level, these processes are adequately…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Bangti Jin , William Rundell

An approximate method is proposed for the recovery of a compactly supported spherically-symmetric potential from the set of fixed-energy phase-shifts known for all angular momenta. The method reduces the inverse scattering problem to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 A. G. Ramm , W. Scheid

Particle discretizations of partial differential equations are advantageous for high-dimensional kinetic models in phase space due to their better scalability than continuum approaches with respect to dimension. Complex processes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Mark F. Adams , Daniel S. Finn , Matthew G. Knepley , Joseph V. Pusztay

We consider an inverse problem for the linear one-dimensional wave equation with variable coefficients consisting in determining an unknown source term from a boundary observation. A method to obtain approximations of this inverse problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Carlos Castro , Sorin Micu

We study an inverse design problem for the linear multiple fragmentation equation arising in particle dynamics. Our objective is to reconstruct an unknown initial size distribution that evolves, under a prescribed fragmentation law, into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Arijit Das

An inversion method is formulated for extracting entanglement-related information on two-particle interactions in a one-dimensional system from measurable one-particle position- and momentum-distribution functions. The method is based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 I. Nagy , M. L. Glasser

For a general class of diffusion processes with multiplicative noise, describing a variety of physical as well as financial phenomena, mostly typical of complex systems, we obtain the analytical solution for the moments at all times. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-18 Giacomo Bormetti , Danilo Delpini

We study an inverse initial-density problem for a nonlinear diffusive coagulation--fragmentation equation with known coagulation and fragmentation kernels. The objective is to recover the unknown initial particle-size distribution on a…

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The problem of recovering a moment-determinate multivariate function $f$ via its moment sequence is studied. Under mild conditions on $f$, the point-wise and $L_1$-rates of convergence for the proposed constructions are established. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Robert Mnatsakanov , Rafik Aramyan , Farhad Jafari

We present a new method for the calculation of fragment size correlations in a discrete finite system in which correlations explicitly due to the finite extent of the system are suppressed. To this end, we introduce a combinatorial model,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 Pierre Desesquelles

Inverse problems arise in situations where data is available, but the underlying model is not. It can therefore be necessary to infer the parameters of the latter starting from the former. Statistical mechanics offers a toolbox of…

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