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Adiabatic elimination is a standard tool in quantum optics, which produces an effective Hamiltonian for a relevant subspace of states, incorporating effects of its coupling to states with much higher unperturbed energy. It shares with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Mikel Sanz , Enrique Solano , Íñigo L. Egusquiza

We study the asymptotic behavior, as $\gamma$ tends to infinity, of solutions for the homogeneous Dirichlet problem associated to singular semilinear elliptic equations whose model is $$ -\Delta u=\frac{f(x)}{u^\gamma}\,\text{ in }\Omega,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Riccardo Durastanti

- In this paper we introduce a new method to solve fixed-delay optimal control problems which exploits numerical homotopy procedures. It is known that solving this kind of problems via indirect methods is complex and computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Riccardo Bonalli , Bruno Hérissé , Emmanuel Trélat

The homotopy analysis method known from its successful applications to obtain quasi-analytical approximations of solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations is applied to stochastic differential equations with Gaussian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-08 Maciej Janowicz , Filip Krzyżewski , Joanna Kaleta , Marian Rusek , Arkadiusz Orłowski

The study of optimal control problems under uncertainty plays an important role in scientific numerical simulations. This class of optimization problems is strongly utilized in engineering, biology and finance. In this paper, a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Caroline Geiersbach , Teresa Scarinci

We present a hybrid classical-quantum algorithm to solve optimization problems in current quantum computers, whose basic idea is to assist variational quantum eigensolvers (VQE) with adiabatic change of the Hamiltonian. The rational for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 A. Garcia-Saez , J. I. Latorre

Time Optimal Path Parametrization is the problem of minimizing the time interval during which an actuation constrained agent can traverse a given path. Recently, an efficient linear-time algorithm for solving this problem was proposed.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Igor Spasojevic , Varun Murali , Sertac Karaman

We present adaptive gradient methods (both basic and accelerated) for solving convex composite optimization problems in which the main part is approximately smooth (a.k.a. $(\delta, L)$-smooth) and can be accessed only via a (potentially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Anton Rodomanov , Xiaowen Jiang , Sebastian Stich

A new method to solve computationally challenging (random) parametric obstacle problems is developed and analyzed, where the parameters can influence the related partial differential equation (PDE) and determine the position and surface…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Martin Eigel , Cosmas Heiß , Janina E. Schütte

In this paper we consider a method of solving optimal stopping problems in discrete and continuous time based on their dual representation. A novel and generic simulation-based optimization algorithm not involving nested simulations is…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Denis Belomestny

In this work we study the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the incompressible two-dimensional Euler equations in the exterior of a single smooth obstacle when the obstacle becomes very thin tending to a curve. We extend results by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Christophe Lacave

We introduce a numerical technique for controlling the location and stability properties of Hopf bifurcations in dynamical systems. The algorithm consists of solving an optimization problem constrained by an extended system of nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Nicolas Boullé , Patrick E. Farrell , Marie E. Rognes

Orthogonality constrained optimization is widely used in applications from science and engineering. Due to the nonconvex orthogonality constraints, many numerical algorithms often can hardly achieve the global optimality. We aim at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Honglin Yuan , Xiaoyi Gu , Rongjie Lai , Zaiwen Wen

We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution of the obstacle problem for quasilinear Stochastic PDEs with non-homogeneous second order operator. Our method is based on analytical technics coming from the parabolic potential theory. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-08 Denis Laurent , Matoussi Anis , Zhang Jing

In this article we consider the problem of finding the visibility set from a given point when the obstacles are represented as the level set of a given function. Although the visibility set can be computed efficiently by ray tracing, there…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Adam Oberman , Tiago Salvador

We consider a class of structured, nonconvex, nonsmooth optimization problems under orthogonality constraints, where the objectives combine a smooth function, a nonsmooth concave function, and a nonsmooth weakly convex function. This class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Ganzhao Yuan

In this paper, we present a novel method for computing the asymptotic values of both the optimal threshold, and the probability of success in sequences of optimal stopping problems. This method, based on the resolution of a first-order…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-18 L. Bayón , P. Fortuny , J. M. Grau , A. M. Oller-Marcén , M. M. Ruiz

We characterize the solution to the entropically regularized optimal transport problem by a well-posed ordinary differential equation (ODE). Our approach works for discrete marginals and general cost functions, and in addition to two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Joshua Zoen-Git Hiew , Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

Variational approaches have been used successfully as a strategy to take advantage from real data measurements. In several applications, this approach gives a means to increase the accuracy of numerical simulations. In the particular case…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Telma Guerra , Adélia Sequeira , Jorge Tiago

Recent observations have been made that bridge splitting methods arising from optimization, to the Hopf and Lax formulas for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations with Hamiltonians $H(p)$. This has produced extremely fast algorithms in computing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Alex Tong Lin , Yat Tin Chow , Stanley Osher