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We solve the classical Dirichlet problem for a general complex Hessian equation on a small ball in $\bC^n$. Then, we show that there is a continuous solution, in pluripotential theory sense, to the Dirichlet problem on compact Hermitian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Dongwei Gu , Ngoc Cuong Nguyen

The main aim of this paper is to solve an inverse source problem for a general nonlinear hyperbolic equation. Combining the quasi-reversibility method and a suitable Carleman weight function, we define a map of which fixed point is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Loc H. Nguyen , Michael V. Klibanov

This paper presents an inverse optimal control methodology and its application to training a predictive model of human motor control from a manipulation task. It introduces a convex formulation for learning both objective function and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Marcel Menner , Peter Worsnop , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Our work proposes a unified approach to three different topics in a general Riemannian setting: splitting theorems, symmetry results and overdetermined elliptic problems. By the existence of a stable solution to the semilinear equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Alberto Farina , Luciano Mari , Enrico Valdinoci

We prove the existence and uniqueness of weak solution of a Neumann boundary problem for an elliptic partial differential equation (PDE for short) with a singular divergence term which can only be understood in a weak sense. A probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Xue Yang , Jing Zhang

The Clustered Traveling Salesman Problem with a Prespecified Order on the Clusters, a variant of the well-known traveling salesman problem is studied in literature. In this problem, delivery locations are divided into clusters with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Hoa Nguyen Phuong , Huyen Tran Ngoc Nhat , Minh Hoàng Hà , André Langevin , Martin Trépanier

This paper presents a piecewise convexification method for solving non-convex multi-objective optimization problems with box constraints. Based on the ideas of the $\alpha$-based Branch and Bound (${\rm \alpha BB}$) method of global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Q. Zhu , L. P. Tang , X. M. Yang

Using the matrix-forest theorem and the Parisi-Sourlas trick we formulate and solve a one-matrix model with non-polynomial potential which provides perturbation theory for massive spinless fermions on dynamical planar graphs. This is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-20 Alexander Gorsky , Vladimir Kazakov , Fedor Levkovich-Maslyuk , Victor Mishnyakov

The paper deals with a risk averse dynamic programming problem with infinite horizon. First, the required assumptions are formulated to have the problem well defined. Then the Bellman equation is derived, which may be also seen as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Martin Šmíd , Miloš Kopa

In this paper we solve the Boltzmann transport equation using AI libraries. The reason why this is attractive is because it enables one to use the highly optimised software within AI libraries, enabling one to run on different computer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 T. R. F. Phillips , C. E. Heaney , C. Boyang , A. G. Buchan , C. C. Pain

We consider the continuous Fermat-Weber problem, where the customers are continuously (uniformly) distributed along the boundary of a convex polygon. We derive the closed-form expression for finding the average distance from a given point…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Thomas T. C. K. Zhang , John Gunnar Carlsson

We consider the multiple traveling salesman problem on a weighted tree. In this problem there are $m$ salesmen located at the root initially. Each of them will visit a subset of vertices and return to the root. The goal is to assign a tour…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Lin Chen , Daniel Marx

This paper surveys some recent results on existence, uniqueness and removable singularities for fully nonlinear differential equations on manifolds. The discussion also treats restriction theorems and the strong Bellman principle.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 F. Reese Harvey , H. Blaine Lawson

The general solution to the Complex Bateman equation is constructed. It is given in implicit form in terms of a functional relationship for the unknown function. The known solution of the usual Bateman equation is recovered as a special…

solv-int · Physics 2007-05-23 D. B. Fairlie , A. N. Leznov

The classical Heron problem states: \emph{on a given straight line in the plane, find a point $C$ such that the sum of the distances from $C$ to the given points $A$ and $B$ is minimal}. This problem can be solved using standard geometry or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-11-16 Boris Mordukhovich , Nguyen Mau Nam , Juan Salinas

The complete group classification of a generalization of the Black-Scholes-Merton model is carried out by making use of the underlying equivalence and additional equivalence transformations. For each non linear case obtained through this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-28 Yuri Bozhkov , Stylianos Dimas

Directional estimation is a common problem in many tracking applications. Traditional filters such as the Kalman filter perform poorly because they fail to take the periodic nature of the problem into account. We present a recursive filter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Gerhard Kurz , Igor Gilitschenski , Simon Julier , Uwe D. Hanebeck

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of recent development related to Bregman distances outside its native areas of optimization and statistics. We discuss approaches in inverse problems and image processing based on Bregman…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-21 Martin Burger

Bi-level optimisation problems have gained increasing interest in the field of combinatorial optimisation in recent years. With this paper, we start the runtime analysis of evolutionary algorithms for bi-level optimisation problems. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-10 Dogan Corus , Per Kristian Lehre , Frank Neumann , Mojgan Pourhassan

The recent approach based on Hamiltonian systems and the implicit parametri\-za\-tion theorem, provides a general fixed domain approximation method in shape optimization problems, using optimal control theory. In previous works, we have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba