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Lower and upper bounds for a given function are important in many mathematical and engineering contexts, where they often serve as a base for both analysis and application. In this short paper, we derive piecewise linear and quadratic…

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We develop an idempotent version of probabilistic potential theory. The goal is to describe the set of max-plus harmonic functions, which give the stationary solutions of deterministic optimal control problems with additive reward. The…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-10 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Cormac Walsh

This paper describes infinite sets of polynomial equations in infinitely many variables with the property that the existence of a solution or even an approximate solution for every finite subset of the equations implies the existence of a…

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When implementing regular enough functions (e.g., elementary or special functions) on a computing system, we frequently use polynomial approximations. In most cases, the polynomial that best approximates (for a given distance and in a given…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nicolas Brisebarre , Jean-Michel Muller

We prove that for any even algebraic polynomial $p$ one can find a cosine polynomial with an arbitrary small $l_1$-norm of coefficients such that the first coefficients of its representation as an algebraic polynomial in $\cos x$ coincide…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Kristina Oganesyan

We describe the explicit form of a left greatest common divisor and a least common multiple of solutions of a solvable linear matrix equation over a commutative elementary divisor domain. We prove that these left greatest common divisor and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Volodymyr P. Shchedryk

We demonstrate that any function $f$ from a finite set $Y$ to itself can be represented linearly. Specifically, we prove the existence of an injective map $j$ from $Y$ into a modular ring $\mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}$ and a constant $a \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Roman Bacik

In this paper the main results in arXiv:0901.3179v3, related to the matrix representation of polynomial maps, are restated in traditional way of linear algebra assuming that variable vectors are presented as column vectors. Some new results…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2010-10-14 Ural Bekbaev

A simple proof is given of the known fact that an m-times continuously differentiable function on the real line can be approximated along with its derivatives by an entire function and its respective derivatives.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Paul M. Gauthier , Julie Kienzle

The observational characteristics of a linear structural equation model can be effectively described by polynomial constraints on the observed covariance matrix. However, these polynomials can be exponentially large, making them impractical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Thijs van Ommen , Mathias Drton

In the paper I study properties of random polynomials with respect to a general system of functions. Some lower bounds for the mathematical expectation of the uniform and recently introduced integral-uniform norms of random polynomials are…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pavel Grigoriev

In exchange for large quantities of data and processing power, deep neural networks have yielded models that provide state of the art predication capabilities in many fields. However, a lack of strong guarantees on their behaviour have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Haakon Robinson , Adil Rasheed , Omer San

We show that the Christoffel function (CF) factorizes (or can be disintegrated) as the product of two Christoffel functions, one associated with the marginal and the another related to the conditional distribution, in the spirit of "the CF…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Jean-Bernard Lasserre

In multicentric representation of piecewise holomorphic functions one combines Lagrange interpolation at roots of a polynomial $p$ with convergent power series of $p$ as the "coefficients" multiplying the Lagrange basis polynomials. When…

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We consider piecewise linear interpolation from the perspective of kernel interpolation and quadrature. If the Sobolev space $W_2^1(0, 1)$ is equipped with a suitable inner product, its reproducing kernel is piecewise linear and gives rise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Toni Karvonen , Gabriele Santin , Tizian Wenzel

Adjoint functors and projectivization in representation theory of partially ordered sets are used to generalize the algorithms of differentiation by a maximal and by a minimal point. Conceptual explanations are given for the combinatorial…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Mark Kleiner , Markus Reitenbach

In this paper we study the semilinear partial differential equations in the plane the linear part of which is written in a divergence form. The main result is given as a factorization theorem. This theorem states that every weak solution of…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Vladimir Gutlyanskii , Olga Nesmelova , Vladimir Ryazanov

In this paper, we consider a planar dynamical system with a piecewise linear function containing an arbitrary number (but finite) of dropping sections and approximating some continuous nonlinear function. Studying all possible local and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2008-03-05 Valery A. Gaiko , Wim T. van Horssen

Article explicitly expresses Subgraph Isomorphism by a polynomial size asymmetric linear system.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-11-10 Sergey Gubin

The first order loss function and its complementary function are extensively used in practical settings. When the random variable of interest is normally distributed, the first order loss function can be easily expressed in terms of the…

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