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Apparent horizon plays an important role in numerical relativity as it provides a tool to characterize the existence and properties of black holes on three-dimensional spatial slices in 3+1 numerical spacetimes. Apparent horizon finders…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Hon-Ka Hui , Lap-Ming Lin

In 3+1 numerical simulations of dynamic black hole spacetimes, it's useful to be able to find the apparent horizon(s) (AH) in each slice of a time evolution. A number of AH finders are available, but they often take many minutes to run, so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan Thornburg

We have developed a general method for finding apparent horizons in 3D numerical relativity. Instead of solving for the partial differential equation describing the location of the apparent horizons, we expand the closed 2D surfaces in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-15 P. Anninos , K. Camarda , J. Libson , J. Massó , E. Seidel , W. -M. Suen

By using the Hadamard matrix product concept, this paper introduces two generalized matrix formulation forms of numerical analogue of nonlinear differential operators. The SJT matrix-vector product approach is found to be a simple,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-21 W. Chen

This paper considers the problems of solving monotone variational inequalities with H\"older continuous Jacobians. By employing the knowledge of H\"older parameter $\nu$, we propose the $\nu$-regularized extra-Newton method within at most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Chengchang Liu , Luo Luo

I present a fast algorithm to find apparent horizons. This algorithm uses an explicit representation of the horizon surface, allowing for arbitrary horizon resolutions and, in principle, shapes. Novel in this approach is that the tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Erik Schnetter

The Newton, Gauss--Newton and Levenberg--Marquardt methods all use the first derivative of a vector function (the Jacobian) to minimise its sum of squares. When the Jacobian matrix is ill-conditioned, the function varies much faster in some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 S. J. Brooks

We demonstrate a systematic method for solving the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for general relativity with the inclusion of matter fields. The generating functional is expanded in a series of spatial gradients. Each term is manifestly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 J. Parry D. S. Salopek , J. M. Stewart

Considered herein is a modified Newton method for the numerical solution of nonlinear equations where the Jacobian is approximated using a complex-step derivative approximation. We show that this method converges for sufficiently small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Dimitrios Mitsotakis

This study proposes a Newton based multiple objective optimization algorithm for hyperparameter search. The first order differential (gradient) is calculated using finite difference method and a gradient matrix with vectorization is formed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Qinwu Xu

This work proposes a higher-order iterative framework for solving matrix equations, inspired by the structure and functionality of neural networks. A modification of the classical Jacobi iterative method is introduced to compute…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-29 Nithin Kumar Goona , Lama Tarsissi

We describe a three precision variant of Newton's method for nonlinear equations. We evaluate the nonlinear residual in double precision, store the Jacobian matrix in single precision, and solve the equation for the Newton step with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-11 C. T. Kelley

Variable projection methods prove highly efficient in solving separable nonlinear least squares problems by transforming them into a reduced nonlinear least squares problem, typically solvable via the Gauss-Newton method. When solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Malena I. Español , Gabriela Jeronimo

Apparent horizon (AH) finders are essential for characterizing black holes and excising their interiors in numerical relativity (NR) simulations. However, open-source AH finders to date are tightly coupled to individual NR codes. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Zachariah B. Etienne , Thiago Assumpção , Leonardo Rosa Werneck , Samuel D. Tootle

The focus in this work is on interior-point methods for inequality-constrained quadratic programs, and particularly on the system of nonlinear equations to be solved for each value of the barrier parameter. Newton iterations give high…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 David Ek , Anders Forsgren

A new Jacobian approximation is developed for use in quasi-Newton methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations. The new hypersecant Jacobian approximation is intended for the special case where the evaluation of the functions whose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-05-08 Johan Carlsson , John R. Cary

Variational inequalities represent a broad class of problems, including minimization and min-max problems, commonly found in machine learning. Existing second-order and high-order methods for variational inequalities require precise…

The Classic Howard's algorithm, a technique of resolution for discrete Hamilton-Jacobi equations, is of large use in applications for its high efficiency and good performances. A special beneficial characteristic of the method is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Adriano Festa

The goal of this paper is to study approaches to bridge the gap between first-order and second-order type methods for composite convex programs. Our key observations are: i) Many well-known operator splitting methods, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-27 Xiantao Xiao , Yongfeng Li , Zaiwen Wen , Liwei Zhang

We describe inexact proximal Newton-like methods for solving degenerate regularized optimization problems and for the broader problem of finding a zero of a generalized equation that is the sum of a continuous map and a maximal monotone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Ching-pei Lee , Stephen J. Wright
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