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inferring the slope of a digitized line
Given real numbers $a$ and $b$, and an integer $n \geq 2$, let $f(n,a,b)$ be the minimum of $(nint(ja+b)-nint(ia+b)+1)/(j-i)$ (for $1 \leq i < j \leq n$) minus the maximum of $(nint(ja+b)-nint(ia+b)...
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Degenerate case of linear programming duality?
Let's say we have a maximization linear program that looks like this: maximize $\vec{c}\vec{x}$, subject to $\matrix{A}\vec{x} \leq 0$, $\vec{x} \geq 0$. If we take the dual, we have "minimize $0\vec{...
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Maximum average value within a rectangular bounding box
The goal is to expedite detection using the sliding window approach. In other words, an object classifier is known and I need to find where the possible locations of this object are in an image. This ...
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Detect if directed cycle is clockwise or counterclockwise in 3D [closed]
I need to check if cycle given by $(x_1, y_1, z_1), (x_2, y_2, z_2), (x_3, y_3, z_3)$ is clockwise or counterclockwise. I have found this answer: Detecting whether directed cycle is clockwise or ...
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Intersections of irreducible components
Let $V$ be an algebraic variety (not irreducible) over $\mathbb{C}$, defined by an ideal $I = \{f_1,f_2,\dots, f_n\}$. $V$ is not necessarily pure dimensional. Suppose $V = R_1\cup R_2\cup\dots\cup ...
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Algorithm for Ham Sandwich with Points
I just recently learned the Ham Sandwich Theorem in my algebraic topology class. If we take the measure to be the counting measure and let $n=2$, then the theorem tells us that given a set of black ...
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Minimum tiling of a rectangle by squares
Given the $n\times m$ rectangle, I want to compute the minimum number of integer-sided squares needed to tile it (possibly of different sizes).
Is there an efficient way to calculate this?
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Detecting whether directed cycle is clockwise or counterclockwise
Given a directed cycle in the plane I need to walk it and detect whether it is clockwise or counterclockwise.
My first idea is to gather the sum of the turn angles, where a "left" turn is a negative ...
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Open questions in mesh generation
A mesh is a discretization of a geometric domain. An unstructured mesh is typically a triangulation. Unstructured meshes are catching up especially in the academic community.
I'm looking for open ...
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formulate edge length problem as convex optimization problem
I want to us convex optimization to describe a problem in computational geometry.
Let $E = (E_1, E_2,\ldots , E_m) $ be a sequence of line segments in the plane, where $E_1$ and $E_m$ may be points ...
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Linear Programming Cost Function [closed]
I need to add the following to my LP problem:
If the amount of workers hired in period $t$ ($H_t$) is higher than 25, the hiring cost is only 1 instead of 1.2.
Example: if 30 workers are hired in ...
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Inequality-constrained linear-regression, what is the covariance of the estimator?
If you do a linear regression: $||Ax - e ||^2$, where e is iid Gaussian, mean 0 and variance 1, then your answer is $x_{hat} = (A' A)^{-1} (A' * e)$ and the covariance of $x_{hat}$ is $(A' A)^{-1}$
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what is the difference between the revised simplex method andthe full tableu?
No to sound naive but they look like they include the same steps to me, one's just the algorithmical representation of the other. Thanks in advance.
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How to find which subset of bitfields xor to another bitfield?
I have a somewhat coding-oriented problem. I have a bunch of bitfields and would like to calculate what subset of them to xor together to achieve a certain other bitfield, or if there isn't a way to ...
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Regular vs. Irregular Vertices in a Mesh
Hi everybody,
Reading about Geometry Processing, I have realized that people in this area are very interested in regular vertices(degree=6) rather than irregular ones.
Can anybody give me reasons ...
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Symmetry of the integer gap
Are there results that bound the asymmetry of the duality gap of an integer program? That is to say, if the difference between the LP solution and the IP (primal) solution is $a$, is there a function ...
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Generating random polygons from a given triangulation of points
Given a triangulation $T$ of a planar set point $S$, we would like to randomly generate a polygon (hamiltonian cycle) $P$.
However, it has been proved that Hamiltonian Circuit Problem on maximal ...
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Recovering a piecewise affine function
Lets say I have an piecewise affine convex function $f(x_1,x_2)$, on which the following operations are possible:
Computing $f(x_1,x_2)$.
Computing a subgradient to $f$ at $(x_1,x_2)$
Computing all ...
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Light rays bouncing around inside a sphere in d-dimensions
Suppose $S=\mathbb{S}^d$ is a unit sphere in $(d-1)$ dimensional space, with $d=3$ of special interest.
The surface of $S$ is a perfect (internal) mirror.
You stand at point $x$ (not the sphere center ...
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What is the most general class of metric spaces for which the closest pair of points in a finite subset can be found in time O(n^(1+eps))?
What is the most general class of metric spaces for which the closest pair of points in any finite subset can be found in time O(n^(1+eps))? I have studied how to do this in O(n log(n)) in the plane, ...
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Sorting a binary matrix diagonal in polynomial time while preserving rows
Is there a polynomial time solution to sort an arbitrary binary square matrix in polynomial time by rows so that the diagonal contains a 1 if any row contains a 1 in that column?
For example given ...
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For Ax = b, x and b unknown vectors, how do I solve the x that maximizes min(b_i)?
Given a matrix $A$, each element $A_{i,j} \geq 0$, find the vector $\vec x$ that maximizes the minimum element in $\vec b$ ($\vec b = A \vec x$). Note that this is not a linear equation system as I ...
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Minimizing variance of distances between points when mean distance is fixed
In Rd, I have n > d+1 points. The mean distance between pairs of points is 1. How can I minimize the variance of the distances (equivalently, the mean squared distance)? I'm mainly interested in d &...
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Applications of minmax theorem(s)
Intro We suppose $X$ and $Y$ are nonempty sets and f: $X\times Y \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. A minimax theorem is a theorem that asserts that, under certain conditions,
$$ \inf_Y \sup_X f = \sup_X \...
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Continuous Linear Programming: Estimating a Solution
I have a "continuous" linear programming problem that involves maximizing a linear function over a curved convex space. In typical LP problems, the convex space is a polytope, but in this case the ...
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Finding equations for projective bundles associated to vector bundles over explicitly given varieties
Suppose I have a projective variety V over a field k. It is given explicitly in terms of homogeneous equations. Moreover, say I have an explicitly given vector bundle E (in terms of a module ...
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Finding integer points on an N-d convex hull
Suppose we have a convex hull computed as the solution to a linear programming problem (via whatever method you want). Given this convex hull (and the inequalities that formed the convex hull) is ...
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split polygon into minimum amount of rectangles and triangles
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is there an algorithm which cuts a polygon into a minimum amount of preferably rectangles and where not possible (e.g. edges) into triangles?
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Feasibility of linear programs
It's known that finding the intersection of n halfplanes in 2-d takes $\Omega(n\log n)$ time. Does the lower bound apply if we change the question to deciding whether the intersection is non-empty?
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A system of linear equations with linear constraints
Mathematical problem.
Suppose we have $2n$ indeterminates $x_1,\dots,x_n$ and $y_1,\dots,y_n$ (which are denoted by $q$ with indices and called abundances below) and $m$ subsets $P_1,\dots,P_m$ of $\...
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Is it possible to use linear programming to solve this problem?
I am trying to write software to minimize pricing for cell phone subscription services, ie: choose the optimum plan for each customer in a large group.
Could someone comment on whether this is ...
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A simple infinite dimensional optimization problem
I'd be grateful for a reference for the following result, which I believe to be true, and
should be well-known.
Let the continuous functions $f_0,f_1,\cdots,f_n: [0,1]\rightarrow [0,\infty)$ be ...
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Covariance matrix formula interpretation - what am I missing?
I'm reading a paper that outlines the calculation of a covariance matrix like the following:
$C=\displaystyle\sum^{N_b}_{i=1}\vec{x}_i\vec{x}_i^T$
What is the order of this matrix? My interpretation ...
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Sum of difference moduli vs. sum of modulus differences
This is a failed attempt of mine at creating a contest problem; the failure is in the fact that I wasn't able to solve it myself.
Let $x_1$, $x_2$, ..., $x_n$ be $n$ reals. For any integer $k$, ...
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