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This paper deals with the time evolution in the matter era of perturbations in Friedman-Lemaitre models with arbitrary density parameter $\Omega$, with either a zero cosmological constant, $\Lambda = 0$, or with a non-zero cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. R. Bouchet , S. Colombi , E. Hivon , R. Juszkiewicz

We address the persistent monitoring problem in two-dimensional mission spaces where the objective is to control the trajectories of multiple cooperating agents to minimize an uncertainty metric. In a one-dimensional mission space, we have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-21 Xuchao Lin , Christos G. Cassandras

Interval Markov decision processes are a class of Markov models where the transition probabilities between the states belong to intervals. In this paper, we study the problem of efficient estimation of the optimal policies in Interval…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Saber Jafarpour , Samuel Coogan

We propose the use of machine learning techniques to find optimal quadrature rules for the construction of stiffness and mass matrices in isogeometric analysis (IGA). We initially consider 1D spline spaces of arbitrary degree spanned over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Tomas Teijeiro , Jamie M. Taylor , Ali Hashemian , David Pardo

The quantum phase transition of the one-dimensional long-range transverse-field Ising model is explored by combining the quantum Monte Carlo method and stochastic parameter optimization, specifically achieved by tuning correlation ratios so…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-05 Sora Shiratani , Synge Todo

The Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action has been widely studied as an interesting example of a model of k-inflation in which the sound speed of the cosmological perturbations differs from unity. In this article we consider a scalar-tensor theory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Carsten van de Bruck , David F. Mota , Joel M. Weller

We extend the softFEM idea to isogeometric analysis (IGA) to reduce the stiffness (consequently, the condition numbers) of the IGA discretized problem. We refer to the resulting approximation technique as softIGA. We obtain the resulting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Quanling Deng , Pouria Behnoudfar , Victor M. Calo

The integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) for Bayesian inference is an efficient approach to estimate the posterior marginal distributions of the parameters and latent effects of Bayesian hierarchical models that can be expressed…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-05 Virgilio Gómez-Rubio , Roger S. Bivand , Håvard Rue

The Immersed Boundary (IB) method is a mathematical framework for constructing robust numerical methods to study fluid-structure interaction in problems involving an elastic structure immersed in a viscous fluid. The IB formulation uses an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Yuanxun Bao , Aleksandar Donev , Boyce E. Griffith , David M. McQueen , Charles S. Peskin

We present a scenario for deriving Maxwell theory from IIB matrix model. Four dimensional spacetime and theories on it relate different dimensional ones by applying appropriate limits of the backgrounds of matrix model. It is understood by…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroyuki Takata

Augmented Lagrangian and optimistic primal--dual methods stabilize equality-constrained optimization through seemingly different mechanisms: the former adds constraint-dependent primal curvature, while the latter adds dual memory. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiayi Zhao

We review recent developments in the type IIB matrix model, which was conjectured to be a nonperturbative formulation of superstring theory. In the first part we review the recent results for the Euclidean model, which suggest that SO(10)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Jun Nishimura

Ill-posed inverse problems are fundamental in many domains, ranging from astrophysics to medical imaging. Emerging diffusion models provide a powerful prior for solving these problems. Existing maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) or posterior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Minseo Kim , Axel Levy , Gordon Wetzstein

The Hamiltonian approach to cosmological perturbations in general relativity in finite space-time is developed, where a cosmological scale factor is identified with spatial averaging the metric determinant logarithm. This identification…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 B. M. Barbashov , V. N. Pervushin , A. F. Zakharov , V. A. Zinchuk

We study the scalar sector of type IIB superstring theory compactified on Calabi-Yau orientifolds as a place to find a mechanism of inflation in the early universe. In the large volume limit, one can stabilize the moduli in stages using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Holman , Jimmy A. Hutasoit

We use high-redshift type Ia supernova and compact radio source data in order to test the infrared (IR) fixed point model of the late Universe which was proposed recently. It describes a cosmology with a time dependent cosmological constant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Bentivegna , A. Bonanno , M. Reuter

The type IIB matrix model is a promising candidate for a nonperturbative formulation of superstring theory. As such, it is expected to explain the origin of space--time and matter at the same time. This has been partially demonstrated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-01 Kohta Hatakeyama , Akira Matsumoto , Jun Nishimura , Asato Tsuchiya , Atis Yosprakob

We introduce an extension of the Born-Infeld action for a scalar field and show that it can act as unifying-dark-matter, providing an explanation for both structure formation and the accelerated expansion of the universe. We investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 M. Novello , M. Makler , L. S. Werneck , C. A. Romero

The phase-integral approximation devised by Fr\"oman and Fr\"oman, is used for computing cosmological perturbations in the quadratic chaotic inflationary model. The phase-integral formulas for the scalar and tensor power spectra are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 Clara Rojas , Victor M. Villalba

We consider a small, metastable maximum vacuum expectation value $b_0$ of order of a few eV, for a pseudoscalar Goldstone-like field, which is related to the scalar inflaton field $\phi$ in an idealized model of a cosmological,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Saul Barshay , Georg Kreyerhoff