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As is well known, average-cost optimality inequalities imply the existence of stationary optimal policies for Markov Decision Processes with average costs per unit time, and these inequalities hold under broad natural conditions. This paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Eugene A. Feinberg , Yan Liang

We present an explicit formula for the expected value of a product of several independent symplectically invariant matrices in which the trace and real part function may be applied, possibly to different subexpressions. This takes the form…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-25 C. E. I. Redelmeier

We consider the task of estimating the trace of a matrix function, ${\rm tr}(f({\bf A}))$, of a large symmetric positive semi-definite matrix ${\bf A}$. This problem arises in multiple applications, including kernel methods and inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Madhusudan Madhavan , Alen Alexanderian , Arvind K. Saibaba

We investigate the properties of positive definite and positive semi-definite symmetric matrices within the framework of symmetrized tropical algebra, an extension of tropical algebra adapted to ordered valued fields. We focus on the…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Dariush Kiani , Hanieh Tavakolipour

With some transformations, we convert the problem of option pricing under state-dependent volatility into an initial value problem of the Fokker-Planck equation with a certain potential. By using the Lie symmetry analysis and similarity…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-11-19 Wenqing Bao , ChunLi Chen , Jin E. Zhang

The numerical solution of an ordinary differential equation can be interpreted as the exact solution of a nearby modified equation. Investigating the behaviour of numerical solutions by analysing the modified equation is known as backward…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Robert I McLachlan , Christian Offen

We study symplectic linear algebra over the ring $\Rt$ of Colombeau generalized numbers. Due to the algebraic properties of $\Rt$ it is possible to preserve a number of central results of classical symplectic linear algebra. In particular,…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Sanja Konjik , Guenther Hoermann , Michael Kunzinger

We propose a novel parallel numerical algorithm for calculating the smallest eigenvalues of highly ill-conditioned matrices. It is based on the {\it LDLT} decomposition and involves finding a $k \times k$ sub-matrix of the inverse of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Yang Chen , Jakub Sikorowski , Mengkun Zhu

We study alternating minimization for matrix completion in the simplest possible setting: completing a rank-one matrix from a revealed subset of the entries. We bound the asymptotic convergence rate by the variational characterization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Rui Liu , Alex Olshevsky

We discuss the following extremal problem and its relevance to the sum of the so-called superoptimal singular values of a matrix function: Given an $m\times n$ matrix function $\Phi$ on the unit circle $\mathbb{T}$, when is there a matrix…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Alberto A. Condori

In an instance of the minimum eigenvalue problem, we are given a collection of $n$ vectors $v_1,\ldots, v_n \subset {\mathbb{R}^d}$, and the goal is to pick a subset $B\subseteq [n]$ of given vectors to maximize the minimum eigenvalue of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Adam Brown , Aditi Laddha , Mohit Singh

An important theorem in Gaussian quantum information tells us that we can diagonalise the covariance matrix of any Gaussian state via a symplectic transformation. Whilst the diagonal form is easy to find, the process for finding the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Jason L. Pereira , Leonardo Banchi , Stefano Pirandola

The maximum (or minimum) generalized eigenvalue of symmetric positive semidefinite matrices that depend on optimization variables often appears as objective or constraint functions in structural topology optimization when we consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Akatsuki Nishioka , Yoshihiro Kanno

This paper is concerned with eigenvalue problems for non-symmetric elliptic operators with large drifts in bounded domains under Dirichlet boundary conditions. We consider the minimal principal eigenvalue and the related principal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Francois Hamel , Luca Rossi , Emmanuel Russ

In this paper, we propose a new trace finite element method for the {Laplace-Beltrami} eigenvalue problem. The method is proposed directly on a smooth manifold which is implicitly given by a level-set function and require high order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-17 Song Lu , Xianmin Xu

The goal of optimal transport (OT) is to find optimal assignments or matchings between data sets which minimize the total cost for a given cost function. However, sometimes the cost function is unknown but we have access to (parts of) the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Alberto González-Sanz , Michel Groppe , Axel Munk

In this document, some elements of the theory and algorithmics corresponding to the existence and computability of approximate joint eigenpairs for finite collections of matrices with applications to model order reduction, are presented.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-21 Terry A. Loring , Fredy Vides

We study the optimal value function for control problems on Banach spaces that involve both continuous and discrete control decisions. For problems involving semilinear dynamics subject to mixed control inequality constraints, one can show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Martin Gugat , Falk M. Hante

We compute analytically the probability distribution and moments of the sum and product of the non-zero eigenvalues and singular values of random matrices with (i) non-negative entries, (ii) fixed rank, and (iii) prescribed sums of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-17 Mark J. Crumpton , Yan V. Fyodorov , Pierpaolo Vivo

In this paper, we approach the problem of finding the zeros of the sum of a maximally monotone operator and a monotone and Lipschitz continuous one in a real Hilbert space via an implicit forward-backward-forward dynamical system with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-23 Sebastian Banert , Radu Ioan Bot