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Functional derivatives on Banach spaces
Physicists often use functional integrals and I'm trying to make sense of it in more precise terms. As you can see here, the functional derivative in Physics is defined in terms of Taylor expansions. ...
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Integral representation of tempered distributions
After my previous post I got curious about the following very simple question (which I don't seem to find the answer). Given a tempered distribution $K \in \mathcal{S}'(\mathbb{R}^{n_{1}+\cdots+n_{N}})...
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Representing a nonlinear elliptic PDE as an energy minimization problem
I need to solve a PDE in 2D representing a (time-independent) nonlinear diffusion process. The unknown function is $\phi(x,y)$ and its gradients create fluxes $\vec J$ through a nonlinear relation:
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Difference between variation and differential
Been trying to understand how the numerical formulation for structural elements used in FEM are derived. Came across this piece from "Fundamentals of FEM for Heat and Fluid Flow" by Roland ...
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Euler-Lagrange equation for a functional
What does it mean that the equation:
$$ \text{div}_{x,y}(y^a\nabla_{x,y}u)=0,\quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^n\times(0,\infty),$$
is the Euler-Lagrange equation for the functional:
$$ J(u)=\int_{\mathbb{R}^...
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Pointwise functional derivative as partial derivative
Suppose $x_{1},...,x_{n} \in \mathbb{R}^{d}$ are fixed and $f: \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^{d}) \to \mathbb{C}$ is given by:
$$ f(\phi) = e^{\sum_{j=1}^{n}\alpha_{j}\phi(x_{j})}$$
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Fréchet derivative of evaluation-like functional (multivariate)
I'm fairly new to functional calculus but and posting here since the question seems more appropriate than for MSE. When coming across this post I could not help but wonder the following.
Let $H$ be ...
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Linearity of the directional derivative of a convex functional at the minimum
Let $H$ be a Hilbert space, $T_+(H)$ the set of positive self-adjoint trace-class operators on $H$, and $f : T_+(H) \to [0,m]$ a non-negative, bounded, convex functional. I don't necessarily know that ...
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The derivative of a filter with respect to a output signal [closed]
I have two signals, $d(t)$ and $p(t)$, respectively the input and the output of the matching filter $w(t)$, i.e.
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d(t)*w(t)=p(t)
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where $*$ denotes convolution.The impulse response $w(t)$ may be ...
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Stability estimates on quotients of the form $ \frac{\prod_{j=1}^n a_j}{\prod_{j=1}^n b_j} $
Suppose that $a_j,b_j \in \mathbb C$ are complex numbers, $j=1,\dots,n$, with the property that $|a_j|,|b_j| \geq c > d >0$ where $c,d$ are positive real numbers. I'm interested in the stability ...
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Gelfand "Calculus of Variation" 1.7 question on definition and purpose of variational derivative
In Gelfand Calculus of Variation, chapter 1.7, the variational derivative is defined as:
$$\left.\frac{\partial J}{\partial y}\right|_{x = x_0} = \lim_{\Delta\sigma \rightarrow 0}\frac{J[y+h]-J[y]}{\...
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