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Newton method for polynomials with random starting points
I know that this question exists, but unfortunately it doesn't cover my issue sufficiently.
Assume that we have a polynomial $p(x)$ of degree $n$ with real coefficients, we can assume that all its ...
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How to maximize the variance of a subset of integers?
$\DeclareMathOperator{\Var}{Var}$Given the set of numbers $\Omega := \{1, \ldots, n\}, n \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, how can I choose a subset, $A$ of $\Omega$ , such that $\min(\Var(A), \Var(\Omega \setminus ...
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Convergence of finite-difference method for Cauchy-Riemann equations
Let $I\subseteq \mathbb{R}$ an open interval. Let $f:I\rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ real analytic. Suppose we want to numerically compute an analytic extension of $f$.
We will assume the following: we are ...
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Integral hull of a polyhedron Q is polyhedron
Let $Q \subseteq R^n$ be a rational polyhedron and let $Q_I=Convexhull(Q \cap Z^n)$. By finite basis theorem, we have $Q=P+C$ for some rational polytope $P$ and finitely generated cone $C$ where $C=R_+...
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Is it possible to backtrack an optimization solver? [closed]
I have an optimization problem and was using a linear programming optimizer to find solutions. However, I find that past a certain size, the problem becomes "infeasible" and has no solutions....
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Complexity of evaluation of analytic functions
Given an analytic function $f(x)$ (say as combination of elementary functions and operators), is it possible to compute $n$ first bits of the value of the function on the whole interval $[a, b]$ ...
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Easy instance of set cover
I am trying to prove that a natural greedy algorithm solves the following instance of the set cover problem: for a set of elements $e\in U$ with a set of weights $w_e$, we define the cost of a subset ...
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Prove that $ n \leq d+1 $ under ordering constraints in $\mathbb{R}^d$
Let $x_1, \dotsc, x_n \in \mathbb{R}^d$ and $\theta_1, \dotsc, \theta_n \in \mathbb{R}^d$ be vectors such that for every $k \in [n]$, the following inequality holds:
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\langle x_k, \theta_k \rangle &...
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Method of characteristics, the characteristic lines follow gradient, is this significant?
The PDE I am working on comes from geology, which I do not have much background on.
Said equation aims to describe describes the erosion by describing it as an advection phenomena: the advection ...
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Understanding quadrature rule of a function multiplied by another $C^{\infty}$ function
Define a function $f \in C^m[-1,1],m \in \mathbb{N}$ and $g\in C^{\infty}[-1,1]$. Also define a quadrature rule $Q$ for approximating the integral $\int_{-1}^1 h(x)dx$ for some function integrable ...
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Optimization algorithms for Kronecker approximation of high-dimensional covariance matrices
I'm working with a high-dimensional covariance matrix and exploring Kronecker product approximations to make it computationally manageable.
Here's the setup:
I have a graph $G$ represented by a $D\...
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What is the maximal advantage of randomized over deterministic algorithms for approximation in the worst-case?
Let $X\subset Y$ be Banach spaces and $B_X:=\{x\in X: \|x\|_X\le1\}$ be the unit ball of $X$.
The goal is to find an approximation of every element from $B_X$ with error measured in $Y$ by using at ...
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Efficient algorithm for graph problem
Let $D=(V,E)$ be a directed graph, $S,T\subset V$ and $f:V\rightarrow \{1,\ldots, k\}$ a positive, bounded weight-function and $l\in \mathbb{N}$, find a path $v_1,\ldots, v_l\in V$ with $v_1\in S$ and ...
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Linear interpolation vs L2-projection
I'm reading the book "The Finite Element Method: Theory, Implementation, and Applications" by Larson and Bengzon. In the first chapters there are presented two methods for approximating ...
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Iterated optimal transport
Suppose we are interested in two consecutive transport plans (in the Kantorovich formulation). That is, we are given finite sets $X$, $Y$ and $Z$, endowed with probability measures $\mu_X$, $\mu_Y$ ...
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Reference to formal approach to homotopy analysis method
I'm currently reading a book about the Homotopy Analysis Method (HAM), but it isn't very rigorous (it explains most things with a single example), which is bothering me.
I'm searching for papers where ...
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Handling absolute value and other discontinuities in numerical optimization methods that use gradients
Suppose we have difficult peak fitting problems where the the users wish to fit asymmetric peaks to their experimental data by the least squares method. One such function is illustrated below:
Here
$...
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Pricing zero coupon bonds through PDE
I'm currently studying Paul Wilmott on quantitative finance and saw an interesting idea for an interest rate model that went unexplored in the book.
The idea is to model the market price of risk as a ...
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Inversion formula for discrete sine and cosine transforms
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$I am looking for a proof of the inversion formulas for the discrete sine and cosine transforms, i.e. a proof of the fact that these ...
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Simulation of SDEs using Karhunen Loeve expansion
A very common and easy way to simulate the solution of a SDE is to use the Euler-Maruyama method. At each time step the only random part comes from the realization of the increment of the Brownian.
It ...
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How to deal with singularities in thin plate splines?
Follow up from this question Thin-Plate-Spline understanding and solution.
In the general case of $\mathbb{R}^N$ the following problem (interpolant which minimizes the Thin Plate Energy, specifically ...
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Newton-Kantorovich: theorem geometric
This post is cross-posted from Math StackExchange where I did not receive any response after 5 days. I guess this question might be targeted more towards research level mathematics, so I decided that ...
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Numerical computation of spectral abscissa of operator
I would like to numerically compute the spectral abscissa of an unbounded linear operator $A$ on a Hilbert space. To give you an idea my operator has the form:
$$Af(x,y) = a(y) \partial_x f(x,y) - b(x)...
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A question on a quantitative form of Farkas' lemma
Suppose A is an $m \times n$ matrix whose entries are non-negative integers and $\mathbf{b}$ is a vector with rational entries. A version of Farkas lemma implies that if the equation $$A\mathbf{x}=\...
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Chebyshev approximation via iterated weighted least squares fits
I have the task of finding a Chebyshev approximation for a time-series; I want to check different types of functions, e.g. polynomials, rational functions, harmonics, etc.
I know that the Remez ...
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How to deal with minimizing a flat objective function
Problematic (Debiased Sinkhorn barycenter, proposed by H.Janti et al.): Let $\alpha_1, \ldots, \alpha_K \in \Delta_n$ and $\mathbf{K}=e^{-\frac{\mathrm{C}}{\varepsilon}}$. Let $\pi$ denote a sequence ...
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Approximating a symmetric function in S(R) by Gaussians
The comments on this question point to a paper which demonstrates that the Gaussians $$E_b(x)=e^{-bx^2}$$ are dense in the even functions in $\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R})$. I'm wondering if there's a nice ...
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Interpolating points and orthogonal polynomials on varying intervals
In general, a Lebesgue-Stieltjes integral, $\int (\cdot) \, d \alpha(x)$, that defines an inner product on the space of polynomials establishes a notion of orthogonality.
Suppose we have a sequence of ...
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Numerical evaluation of monomial divided differences
Suppose $f(x)=x^{n+1}$ for some $n\in\mathbb{N}$, and define the divided difference $$f[a,b]=\frac{a^{n+1}-b^{n+1}}{a-b}.$$
I am wondering about the best way to numerically evaluate $f[a,b]$ to high ...
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Minimum of the maximum element frequency given the family size and the universe size
[Crossposted at math.stackexchange].
Consider families of sets $\mathcal{F}$ with size $n = |\mathcal{F}|$ and universe $U(\mathcal{F})$ with size $q = |U(\mathcal{F})|$.
I have written and solved ...
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Does Monotone (linear) convergence of iterates imply monotone (linear) convergence of function values?
I am considering a proof that would require a certain connection between convergence of iterates and corresponding function values: Consider an algorithm with iterates $\left\{{\mathbf{x}}^k\right\}_{...
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Finding measure representation for rank 2 moment matrices
Assuming the following equation has a solution, I'm interested in finding any concrete values of $x_{1},\dots x_{n},y_{1},\dots y_{n},c_{1},c_{2},R$ that fulfills it.
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1 & 1 \\
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Upper bound of $-r’’_\nu(x)/r’_\nu(x)$ where $r_\nu(x)=I_{\nu+1}(x)/I_\nu(x)$
Please see the bottom of the post for an updated version of the question.
Original Question. I’m looking for an analytical proof of an upper bound for $-r’’_\nu(x)/r’_\nu(x)$ for $\nu \ge 0$ and $x \...
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Simulation of Markov processes with exponential timestepping
Let $(Y_t)_{t\ge0}$ be a time-homogeneous Markov process with transition semigroup $(\kappa_t)_{t\ge0}$. Numerical simulation of $(Y_t)_{t\ge0}$ can be done in the following way:
Choose an initial ...
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Software for computing polytopes
As can be inferred from the title, I want to do some computation on the facets representation of the polytopes given the vertices. My advisor recommended me Polymake, which is indeed useful even with ...
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Probability of being inside a convex n-dimensional polytop
I am currently conducting some post-grad research about wireless transmissions with uncertain transmission delays.
As part of the research, each individual transmission is modelled using a probability ...
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Stopping criteria for damped Newton iterations with backtracking line search
Are there better criteria than the Armijo criterion for damped Newton iteration with backtracking line search, when the objective is standard self-concordant? (See Boyd and Vandenberghe.)
Let $F(x)$ ...
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Efficient counting of integer solutions to linear system
In my research, I have a particular 18x18 matrix $\mathbf{A}$ which defines the linear system $\mathbf{A}\cdot \mathbf{x} \leq \mathbf{-1}$ over the nonnegative integers. And I'm interested in ...
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Peak search for NLS equation solutions
By solving the initial value problem of the NLS equation, I can get a matrix of numerical solutions. I hope to perform a peak search on the matrix of this numerical solution, that is, there are ...
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rank of an integer valued matrix
I make some numerical experiments, involving rank of integer valued matrices of the size about $14\times 24$. As the matrix is integer valued, theoretically there should be no room for errors. However ...
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Restate equality between random variables in a numerical stable way
Let $X$ and $Y$ be two random variables drawn from two distinct normal distributions, $\mathcal{N} (\mu_X, \sigma_X^2)$ and $\mathcal{N} (\mu_Y, \sigma_Y^2)$, that correspond to the measurements of an ...
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Can numerical differentiation be applied to tensor derivatives?
I know that for a 1D function, I can calculate the numerical derivative at every point, $\DeclareMathOperator{\d}{d\!} (x_1,y_1)$, with $\d y/\d x$ where $\d y = y_2 - y_0$ and $\d x = x_2 - x_0$. If ...
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Initial guess in shifted QR algorithm
I'm comparing timings of two implementations of algorithms for the computation of Gauss-Legendre nodes.
1 - The first is a Newton algorithm to find the roots of the Gauss-Legendre polynomials. Quite ...
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Is there any way to approximate a function based on a series of logarithm [closed]
Is there a way to expand a function in terms of logarithmic series? Like when we expand a function in terms of Taylor or Fourier series?
I tried to answer this question this way: Let's assume it can ...
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Galerkin scheme in $H^s_0(G)\subset L^2(G)\subset H^{-s}(G)$ ($s>0$)
What basis functions are usually choosen if one attempts to conduct a Galerkin finite element method given an evolution triplet $H^s_0(G)\subset L^2(G)\subset H^{-s}(G)$. Where $G$ is a sufficiently ...
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Discretization of oscillating integral
Suppose I am interested in computing
$$
I \equiv \int_0^B dx \, g(x) f(x)
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where $B$ is a known upper bound for the integral,
$g(x)$ is a known oscillating function and
$f(x)$ is a smooth function ...
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Antiderivatives via Taylor series and the FT of Calculus
If $f$ is a real function on an interval $[a,b]$ such that
$f$ is computationally tractable on $[a,b]$: you can calculate $f(x)$ to $n$ bits of precision using an algorithm which is polynomial in $n$ ...
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Vandermonde-type factorization of moment matrix?
Consider $n,d \in \mathbb{N}_{>0}$, there are many functions $y:\mathbb{N}^{n} \to \mathbb{R}$. Now for simplicity, we denote $y(\alpha)$ to be $y_{\alpha}$. Let $|\alpha| = \sum_{i=1}^{n}\alpha_{i}...
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Formulation of multipoint constraints using Lagrange multipliers for a time dependent problem (with the Finite Element Method)
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Suppose we have the following static linear equations (e.g. of an elastostatic problem):
$$\mathbf{K}\boldsymbol{u}=\boldsymbol{f}$$
We want a multipoint constraint of the type
$$\boldsymbol{\...
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Converting an algebraic equation into a ODE
I'm working on a method to solve algebraic equations by converting them into ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and then integrating these ODEs over time.
Given an algebraic equation $f(x(t), t) = ...
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