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In this paper, we introduce a dynamical urban planning model. This leads us to study a system of nonlinear equations coupled through multi-marginal optimal transport problems. A simple case consists in solving two equations coupled through…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-04 Maxime Laborde

Two-stage methods addressing continuous shortest path problems start local minimization from discrete shortest paths in a spatial graph. The convergence of such hybrid methods to global minimizers hinges on the discretization error induced…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Ralf Borndörfer , Fabian Danecker , Martin Weiser

We consider a boundary value problem of a stationary advection equation in a bounded domain with Lipschitz boundary. It is known to be well-posed in $L^p$-based function spaces for $1 < p < \infty$ under the separation condition of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Masaki Imagawa , Daisuke Kawagoe

This article introduces an innovative mathematical framework designed to tackle non-linear convex variational problems in reflexive Banach spaces. Our approach employs a versatile technique that can handle a broad range of variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Pablo M. Berná , Antonio Falcó

Estimation of solution norms and stability for time-dependent nonlinear systems is ubiquitous in numerous engineering, natural science and control problems. Yet, practically valuable results are rare in this area. This paper develops a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Mark A. Pinsky , Steve Koblik

This paper presents a unified analysis for the proximal subgradient method (Prox-SubGrad) type approach to minimize an overall objective of $f(x)+r(x)$, subject to convex constraints, where both $f$ and $r$ are weakly convex, nonsmooth, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Daoli Zhu , Lei Zhao , Shuzhong Zhang

The branched transport problem, a popular recent variant of optimal transport, is a non-convex and non-smooth variational problem on Radon measures. The so-called urban planning problem, on the contrary, is a shape optimization problem that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Julius Lohmann , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

This paper considers the problem of unconstrained minimization of smooth convex functions having Lipschitz continuous gradients with known Lipschitz constant. We recently proposed an optimized gradient method (OGM) for this problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Donghwan Kim , Jeffrey A. Fessler

In its most general form, the optimal transport problem is an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, yet certain notable instances admit closed-form solutions. We identify the common source of this tractability as \textit{symmetry} and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Bahar Taskesen

We study the inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map at selected frequency as the data. We develop an explicit reconstruction of the wavespeed using a multi-level nonlinear projected…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-11 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Lingyun Qiu , Otmar Scherzer

We derive nearly tight and non-asymptotic convergence bounds for solutions of entropic semi-discrete optimal transport. These bounds quantify the stability of the dual solutions of the regularized problem (sometimes called Sinkhorn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Alex Delalande

We study the existence of particular traveling wave solutions of a nonlinear parabolic degenerate diffusion equation with a shear flow. Under some assumptions we prove that such solutions exist at least for propagation speeds c {\in}]c*,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Léonard Monsaingeon , Alexeï Novikov , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

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

Lawson and Osserman proved that the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface system is not always solvable in the class of Lipschitz maps. However, it is known that minimizing sequences (for area) of Lipschitz graphs converge to objects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Connor Mooney , Ovidiu Savin

This paper studies Minimum Spanning Trees under incomplete information for its vertices. We assume that no information is available on the precise placement of vertices so that it is only known that vertices belong to some neighborhoods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Víctor Blanco , Elena Fernández , Justo Puerto

In this paper, we discuss singular Neumann boundary problem for a class of nonlinear parabolic equations in one space dimension. Our boundary problem describes motion of a planar curve sliding along the boundary with a zero contact angle,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Takashi Kagaya , Qing Liu

The goal of the paper is to give an optimal transport characterization of sectional curvature lower (and upper) bounds for smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. More generally we characterize, via optimal transport, lower bounds on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Christian Ketterer , Andrea Mondino

We construct a Banach space satisfying that the nearest point map (also called proximity mapping or metric projection) onto any compact and convex subset is continuous but not uniformly continuous. The space we construct is locally…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Rubén Medina , Andrés Quilis

We study Online Convex Optimization in the unbounded setting where neither predictions nor gradient are constrained. The goal is to simultaneously adapt to both the sequence of gradients and the comparator. We first develop parameter-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Zakaria Mhammedi , Wouter M. Koolen

We consider approximations of the Stefan-type condition by imbalances of volume closely around the inner interface and study convergence of the solutions of the corresponding semilinear stochastic moving boundary problems. After a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Marvin S. Mueller