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The initial state of the spherical gravitational collapse in general relativity has been studied with different methods, especially by using {\it a priori} given equations of state that describe the matter as a perfect fluid. We propose an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-24 Elly Bayona , Hernando Quevedo , Miguel Alcubierre

We investigate the continuous analogue of the Cholesky factorization, namely the pivoted Cholesky algorithm. Our analysis establishes quantitative convergence guarantees for kernels of minimal smoothness. We prove that for a symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Sungwoo Jeong , Alex Townsend

For a distribution function $F$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ and a point $q\in \mathbb{R}^d$, the \emph{spherical depth} $\SphD(q;F)$ is defined to be the probability that a point $q$ is contained inside a random closed hyper-ball obtained from a pair…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-02-27 David Bremner , Rasoul Shahsavarifar

Given a closed oriented manifold or more generally a group homology class, we introduce the spherical Plateau problem, which is a variational problem corresponding to a topological invariant called the spherical volume. In principle, its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Antoine Song

We find explicit formulas for the radii and locations of the circles in all the optimally dense packings of two, three or four equal circles on any flat torus, defined to be the quotient of the Euclidean plane by the lattice generated by…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Madeline Brandt , William Dickinson , AnnaVictoria Ellsworth , Jennifer Kenkel , Hanson Smith

In this paper optimal designs for regression problems with spherical predictors of arbitrary dimension are considered. Our work is motivated by applications in material sciences, where crystallographic textures such as the missorientation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Holger Dette , Maria Konstantinou , Kirsten Schorning , Josua Gösmann

Approximating a function with a finite series, e.g., involving polynomials or trigonometric functions, is a critical tool in computing and data analysis. The construction of such approximations via now-standard approaches like least squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Dihan Dai , Yekaterina Epshteyn , Akil Narayan

Data uniformity is a concept associated with several semantic data characteristics such as lack of features, correlation and sample bias. This article introduces a novel measure to assess data uniformity and detect uniform pointsets on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Panagiotis Sidiropoulos

This work introduces topological regularization as a framework for handling ultraviolet divergences in quantum field theory, reinterpreting infinities as topological obstructions at spacetime boundaries. Through geometric compactification…

General Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Sebastián Alí Sacasa-Céspedes

This paper provides a survey of spherical designs and their applications, with a particular emphasis on the perspective of ``numerical analysis''. A set \(X_N\) of \(N\) points on the unit sphere \(\mathbb{S}^d\) is called a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Congpei An , Xiaosheng Zhuang

A given set of data-points in some feature space may be associated with a Schrodinger equation whose potential is determined by the data. This is known to lead to good clustering solutions. Here we extend this approach into a full-fledged…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-02-16 Marvin Weinstein , David Horn

Employing the lattice theory on majorization, we investigate the universal quantum uncertainty relation for any number observables and general measurement. We find: 1. The least bounds of the universal uncertainty relations can only be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

We introduce a new stochastic algorithm for solving entropic optimal transport (EOT) between two absolutely continuous probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$. Our work is motivated by the specific setting of Monge-Kantorovich quantiles where…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Bernard Bercu , Jérémie Bigot , Gauthier Thurin

We develop a sampling scheme on the sphere that permits accurate computation of the spherical harmonic transform and its inverse for signals band-limited at $L$ using only $L^2$ samples. We obtain the optimal number of samples given by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

We approximate the uniform measure on an equilateral triangle by a measure supported on $n$ points. We find the optimal sets of points ($n$-means) and corresponding approximation (quantization) error for $n\leq4$, give numerical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Carl P. Dettmann , Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

We address the problem of finding the optimal common resource for an arbitrary family of target states in quantum resource theories based on majorization, that is, theories whose conversion law between resources is determined by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-26 G. M. Bosyk , G. Bellomo , F. Holik , H. Freytes , G. Sergioli

In this paper we are concerned with the global minimization of a possibly non-smooth and non-convex objective function constrained on the unit hypersphere by means of a multi-agent derivative-free method. The proposed algorithm falls into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Massimo Fornasier , Hui Huang , Lorenzo Pareschi , Philippe Sünnen

In this paper, we provide $R$-estimators of the location of a rotationally symmetric distribution on the unit sphere of $\R^k$. In order to do so we first prove the local asymptotic normality property of a sequence of rotationally symmetric…

Applications · Statistics 2012-03-28 Christophe Ley , Yvik Swan , Baba Thiam , Thomas Verdebout

This paper studies numerical integration over the unit sphere $ \mathbb{S}^2 \subset \mathbb{R}^{3} $ by using spherical $t$-design, which is an equal positive weights quadrature rule with polynomial precision $t$. We investigate two kinds…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Congpei An , Siyong Chen

We study a variant of the equidistribution of mass conjecture on the sphere posed by B\"ocherer, Sarnak, and Schulze-Pillot: quantum unique ergodicity in shrinking sets. Conditionally on the generalized Lindel\"of hypothesis, we show that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Maximiliano Sanchez Garza