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Current spectral simulations of Einstein's equations require writing the equations in first-order form, potentially introducing instabilities and inefficiencies. We present a new penalty method for pseudo-spectral evolutions of second order…

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In this article, we study numerical approximation of eigenvalue problems of the Schr\"{o}dinger operator $\displaystyle -\Delta u + \frac{c^2}{|x|^2}u$. There are three stages in our investigation: We start from a ball of any dimension, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

The paper is dedicated to the close analogy between these two theories - some problems lying at the very root of Spectral Geometry are viewed in the context of Semiclassics, and vise versa. The treatment starts from a very basic level and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-05-19 Danail Brezov

This survey provides an exposition of a suite of techniques based on the theory of polynomials, collectively referred to as polynomial methods, which have recently been applied to address several challenging problems in statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Yihong Wu , Pengkun Yang

A spectral method is considered for approximating the fractional Laplacian and solving the fractional Poisson problem in 2D and 3D unit balls. The method is based on the explicit formulation of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Kailai Xu , Eric Darve

Traditionally, finite differences and finite element methods have been by many regarded as the basic tools for obtaining numerical solutions in a variety of quantum mechanical problems emerging in atomic, nuclear and particle physics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Deloff

We present a spectral method for solving elliptic equations which arise in general relativity, namely three-dimensional scalar Poisson equations, as well as generalized vectorial Poisson equations of the type $\Delta \vec{N} + \lambda…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Grandclement , S. Bonazzola , E. Gourgoulhon , J. -A. Marck

Many PDEs involving fractional Laplacian are naturally set in unbounded domains with underlying solutions decay very slowly, subject to certain power laws. Their numerical solutions are under-explored. This paper aims at developing accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Tao Tang , Li-Lian Wang , Huifang Yuan , Tao Zhou

We present a refinement of the Spectral Method by incorporating an optimization method into it and generalize it to two space dimensions. We then apply this Refined Spectral Method as an extremely accurate technique for finding the bound…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Pedram , M. Mirzaei , S. S. Gousheh

Efficient and stable algorithms for the calculation of spectral quantities and correlation functions are some of the key tools in computational condensed matter physics. In this article we review basic properties and recent developments of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Weisse , Gerhard Wellein , Andreas Alvermann , Holger Fehske

The solution of the Lippman-Schwinger (L-S) integral equation is equivalent to the the solution of the Schroedinger equation. A new numerical algorithm for solving the L-S equation is described in simple terms, and its high accuracy is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. H. Rawitscher , I. Koltracht

We develop spectral methods for ODEs and operator eigenvalue problems that are based on a least-squares formulation of the problem. The key tool is a method for rectangular generalized eigenvalue problems, which we extend to quasimatrices…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Behnam Hashemi , Yuji Nakatsukasa

In the framework of mapped pseudospectral methods, we introduce a new polynomial-type mapping function in order to describe accurately the dynamics of systems developing almost singular structures. Using error criteria related to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-10-21 Adrian Alexandrescu , Alfonso Bueno-Orovio , Jose R. Salgueiro , Victor M. Perez-Garcia

Solutions to the stochastic wave equation on the unit sphere are approximated by spectral methods. Strong, weak, and almost sure convergence rates for the proposed numerical schemes are provided and shown to depend only on the smoothness of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-06 David Cohen , Annika Lang

Spectral approximation and variational inducing learning for the Gaussian process are two popular methods to reduce computational complexity. However, in previous research, those methods always tend to adopt the orthonormal basis functions,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-15 Wenqi Fang , Guanlin Wu , Jingjing Li , Zheng Wang , Jiang Cao , Yang Ping

In this work, we use rational approximation to improve the accuracy of spectral solutions of differential equations. When working in the vicinity of solutions with singularities, spectral methods may fail their propagated spectral rate of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-01 João Carrilho de Matos , José M. A. Matos , Maria João Rodrigues

Self-adjoint operators on infinite-dimensional spaces with continuous spectra are abundant but do not possess a basis of eigenfunctions. Rather, diagonalization is achieved through spectral measures. The SpecSolve package [SIAM Rev., 63(3)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Matthew J. Colbrook , Andrew Horning

A method for numerical approximation of a new class of fractional parabolic stochastic evolution equations is introduced and analysed. This class of equations has recently been proposed as a space-time extension of the SPDE-method in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 S. Knutsen Furset

We consider the problem of parameter estimation in a high-dimensional generalized linear model. Spectral methods obtained via the principal eigenvector of a suitable data-dependent matrix provide a simple yet surprisingly effective…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Yihan Zhang , Hong Chang Ji , Ramji Venkataramanan , Marco Mondelli

We consider radially symmetric capillary surfaces that are described by bounded generating curves. We use the arc-length representation of the differential equations for these surfaces to allow for vertical points and inflection points…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Jonas Haug , Ray Treinen