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We propose a general framework for geometric approximation of circular arcs by parametric polynomial curves. The approach is based on constrained uniform approximation of an error function by scalar polynomials. The system of nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Aleš Vavpetič , Emil Žagar

We present fully polynomial approximation schemes for a broad class of Holant problems with complex edge weights, which we call Holant polynomials. We transform these problems into partition functions of abstract combinatorial structures…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Katrin Casel , Philipp Fischbeck , Tobias Friedrich , Andreas Göbel , J. A. Gregor Lagodzinski

This article is concerned with the approximation of unbounded convex sets by polyhedra. While there is an abundance of literature investigating this task for compact sets, results on the unbounded case are scarce. We first point out the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Daniel Dörfler

We take a unifying and new approach toward polynomial and trigonometric approximation in an arbitrary number of variables, resulting in a precise and general ready-to-use tool that anyone can easily apply in new situations of interest. The…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-05-31 Marcel de Jeu

The design of starshades, i.e. external occulters for stellar coronography, relies on the fast and precise computation of their associated diffraction patterns of incoming plane waves in the telescope aperture plane. We present here a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Simon Prunet , Claude Aime , André Ferrari , Céline Theys

We study sets of univariate hyperbolic polynomials that share the same first few coefficients and show that they have a natural combinatorial description akin to that of polytopes. We define a stratification of such sets in terms of root…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Arne Lien

We use discrete holomorphic polynomials to prove that, given a refining sequence of critical maps of a Riemann surface, any holomorphic function can be approximated by a converging sequence of discrete holomorphic functions.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Mercat

The common approach to radial distortion is by the means of polynomial approximation, which introduces distortion-specific parameters into the camera model and requires estimation of these distortion parameters. The task of estimating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lili Ma , YangQuan Chen , Kevin L. Moore

For various Hilbert spaces of analytic functions on the unit disk, we characterize when a function $f$ has optimal polynomial approximants given by truncations of a single power series. We also introduce a generalized notion of optimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Christopher Felder

We consider the problem of approximating the reachable set of a discrete-time polynomial system from a semialgebraic set of initial conditions under general semialgebraic set constraints. Assuming inclusion in a given simple set like a box…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-06 Victor Magron , Pierre-Loic Garoche , Didier Henrion , Xavier Thirioux

The Max-Cut polytope appears in the formulation of many difficult combinatorial optimization problems. These problems can also be formulated as optimization problems over the so-called trigonometric approximation which possesses an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Romain Ageron

We enhance the approximation capabilities of algebraic polynomials by composing them with homeomorphisms. This composition yields families of functions that remain dense in the space of continuous functions, while enabling more accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Álvaro Fernández Corral , Yahya Saleh

By using the Poisson formula for resultants and the variants of chip-firing game on graphs, we provide a combinatorial method for computing a class of of resultants, i.e. the characteristic polynomials of the adjacency tensors of starlike…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Yan-Hong Bao , Yi-Zheng Fan , Yi Wang , Ming Zhu

For a function $f$, continuous on a compact convex set $K$ and analytic in its interior we construct a sequence of almost optimal polynomials that converge with a geometric rate at points of analyticity of $f$.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Liudmyla Kryvonos

We discuss how well a given convex body B in a real d-dimensional vector space V can be approximated by a set X for which the membership question: ``given an x in V, does x belong to X?'' can be answered efficiently (in time polynomial in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Barvinok , Ellen Veomett

A fully implementable filtered polynomial approximation on spherical shells is considered. The method proposed is a quadrature-based version of a filtered polynomial approximation. The radial direction and the angular direction of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Yoshihito Kazashi

We study the structure of the set of all possible affine hyperplane sections of a convex polytope. We present two different cell decompositions of this set, induced by hyperplane arrangements. Using our decomposition, we bound the number of…

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Motivated by numerical methods for solving parametric partial differential equations, this paper studies the approximation of multivariate analytic functions by algebraic polynomials. We introduce various anisotropic model classes based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Andrea Bonito , Ronald DeVore , Diane Guignard , Peter Jantsch , Guergana Petrova

In this work we construct an ultracompact star configuration in the framework of Gravitational Decoupling by the Minimal Geometric Deformation approach. We use the complexity factor as a complementary condition to close the system of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 M. Carrasco-Hidalgo , E. Contreras

We present a method for constructing superoscillatory functions the superoscillatory part of which approximates a given polynomial with arbitrarily small error in a fixed interval. These functions are obtained as the product of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 Ioannis Chremmos , George Fikioris