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This work introduces the Hookean-Voronoi energy, a minimal model for the packing of soft, deformable balls. This is motivated by recent studies of quasi-periodic equilibria arising from dense packings of diblock and star polymers.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-25 Kenneth Jao , Keith Promislow , Samuel Sottile

Given a renormalization scheme, we show how to formulate a tractable convex relaxation of the set of feasible local density matrices of a many-body quantum system. The relaxation is obtained by introducing a hierarchy of constraints between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 Ilya Kull , Norbert Schuch , Ben Dive , Miguel Navascués

Voronoi Tessellations form an attractive and versatile geometrical asymptotic model for the foamlike cosmic distribution of matter and galaxies. In the Voronoi model the vertices are identified with clusters of galaxies. For a substantial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rien van de Weygaert

In this paper we develop a Lagrangian Inertial Centroidal Voronoi Particle (LICVP) method to extend the original CVP method \cite{fu2017physics} to dynamic load balancing in particle-based simulations. Two new concepts are proposed to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zhe Ji , Lin Fu , Xiangyu Y. Hu , Nikolaus A. Adams

Recently, the centroidal momentum dynamics has received substantial attention to plan dynamically consistent motions for robots with arms and legs in multi-contact scenarios. However, it is also non convex which renders any optimization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Brahayam Ponton , Alexander Herzog , Andrea Del Prete , Stefan Schaal , Ludovic Righetti

The Voronoi diagram is a geometric object which is widely used in many areas. Recently it has been shown that under mild conditions Voronoi diagrams have a certain continuity property: small perturbations of the sites yield small…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Daniel Reem

High energy experimental data can be viewed as a sampling of the relevant phase space. We point out that one can apply Voronoi tessellations in order to understand the underlying probability distributions in this phase space. Interesting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-10 Dipsikha Debnath , James S. Gainer , Doojin Kim , Konstantin T. Matchev

We study the computation of equilibrium points of electrostatic potentials: locations in space where the electrostatic force arising from a collection of charged particles vanishes. This is a novel scenario of optimization in which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Abheek Ghosh , Paul W. Goldberg , Alexandros Hollender

We introduce a new class of spatial-temporal point processes based on Voronoi tessellations. At each step of such a process, a point is chosen at random according to a distribution determined by the associated Voronoi cells. The point is…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Konstantin Borovkov , David Odell

We introduce a general corner transfer matrix renormalization group algorithm tailored to projected entangled-pair states on the triangular lattice. By integrating automatic differentiation, our approach enables direct variational energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-15 Jan Naumann , Jens Eisert , Philipp Schmoll

Recent years have seen the emergence of nonlinear methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), such as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). While these approaches often perform well in practice, their theoretical analysis…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Alexandre Magueresse , Santiago Badia

Voronoi tessellations of scale-invariant fractal sets are characterized by topological and metrical properties that are significantly different from those of natural cellular structures. As an example we analyze Voronoi diagrams of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Haye Hinrichsen , Gudrun Schliecker

We investigate the conformal bootstrap approach to $O(N)$ symmetric CFTs in five dimension with particular emphasis on the lower bound on the current central charge. The bound has a local minimum for all $N>1$, and in the large $N$ limit we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-07 Yu Nakayama , Tomoki Ohtsuki

We consider a constrained minimal energy problem with an external field over noncompact classes of infinite dimensional vector measures on a locally compact space. The components are positive measures (charges) that are constrained from…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-10-12 Natalia Zorii

We analyze the convergence behavior of \emph{globally weakly} and \emph{locally strongly contracting} dynamics. Such dynamics naturally arise in the context of convex optimization problems with a unique minimizer. We show that convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Veronica Centorrino , Alexander Davydov , Anand Gokhale , Giovanni Russo , Francesco Bullo

In this paper, we propose an iterative convolution-thresholding method (ICTM) based on prediction-correction for solving the topology optimization problem in steady-state heat transfer equations. The problem is formulated as a constrained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Huangxin Chen , Piaopiao Dong , Dong Wang , Xiao-Ping Wang

We employ a canonical variational framework for the predictive characterization of structural instabilities that develop during the diffusion-driven transient swelling of hydrogels under geometrical constraints. The variational formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Siddharth Sriram , Elten Polukhov , Marc-Andre Keip

We consider the problem of estimating a multivariate function $f_0$ of bounded variation (BV), from noisy observations $y_i = f_0(x_i) + z_i$ made at random design points $x_i \in \mathbb{R}^d$, $i=1,\ldots,n$. We study an estimator that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-02 Addison J. Hu , Alden Green , Ryan J. Tibshirani

In this work we attempt to show in a clear and simple manner the fundamental ideas of the Renormalization Theory. With that intention we use two well-known problems of the Physic and Engeneering undergraduate students, the calculation of…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Wesley Spalenza , J. Alexandre Nogueira

We consider the inverse problem of recovering a continuous-domain function from a finite number of noisy linear measurements. The unknown signal is modeled as the sum of a slowly varying trend and a periodic or quasi-periodic seasonal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Julien Fageot