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Has this notion of "variation along the diagonal of a not-necessarily-smooth function" been studied before?
I am interested in knowing whether something along the lines of the "diagonal variation" defined below has been studied before. In spirit, the basic idea is that it is a kind of ...
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Integrability of modified diagonalizable Jacobian
I have a smooth function $f$ from $\mathbf{R}^N$ to $\mathbf{R}^N$. For each $x\in \mathbf{R}^N$ the Jacobian of $f$, $J_f$, is diagonalizable as
$$
J_f(x)=S(x)\Lambda(x) {S(x)}^{-1},
$$
where the ...
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It is possible to limit a set of curves in the sense $f(x,y) \leq C f(x_0,y)$?
Suppose you have a continuous function $f:[a,b]\times (-\infty, \infty) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. I'm trying to understand if it's possible to conclude that due to the compactness of the interval $[a,b]...
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Proving the simple form of a function from statistical mechanics
I have discovered a pertinent solution to my problem in the article On the Kinetic Theory of Rarefied Gases by Harold Grad and the book Thermodynamik und Statistik by Arnold Sommerfeld, both of which ...
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Is $f^{-a}$ locally integrable if $f\geq 0$ has a unique stationary point ( a minimum) at which the Hessian is positive definite, $0<a<d/2$
Let $0<a<d/2$, let $B$ be the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^{d}$ centered at the origin, and let $f:B \to [0,\infty[$ be a a smooth function such that
(1) $f(x)\geq f(0).$
(2) $\nabla f(x)\neq 0,\...
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Bound for the laplacian of a strictly convex function from above by the gradient of it
Let $V \in C^2(\mathbb{R}^d; \mathbb{R})$ a (strictly) convex function with $ \int_{\mathbb{R}^d} \mathrm{e}^{-V(x)} \, dx = 1.$
I am trying to show that
$$ \int_{\mathbb{R}^d} |\nabla_x V(x) |^2\...
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Is it possible to simplify the coefficient matrix for large values of $x$?
If I have a system of $8$ linear equations for the eight variables $\{\alpha ,\beta ,\gamma ,\delta ,\eta ,\lambda ,\xi ,\rho \}$ and with the three parameters $\{x,y,z\}$ reals and $x>0$. I want ...
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Is there any hope to prove that $g(x)>-4$ if $f(x)<0$?
I have these two functions for $x>0$, $\beta>0$ and $\alpha$ (all reals)
$$ f(x)= \frac{\alpha \; \sin (\beta \; x)}x+4 \cos (\beta\; x) ,\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\qquad\\
g(x)=\frac{\...
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A sufficient condition for multiple differentiability of a function of several variables
While working on some properties of partial derivatives and multiply differentiable functions of several variables, I came across the following Hypothesis 1:
Let $f: \mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}$, $\...
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Generalization(s) of variation diminishing property to multivariate case
Let us first define the variation diminishing property for the Gaussian kernel. Consider a function $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ that is sufficiently smooth and define
\begin{align}
F(x)= \int_{-\...
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A non-differentiable function $f(x,y)$ with bounded $f_x$, $f_y$, $f_{xx}$ and $f_{yy}$
Recently I was trying to construct a counterexample to the statement "If there exist $f_{xy}(0,0)$, $f_{yx}(0,0)$ and the functions $f_{xx}$, $f_{yy}$ exist in some neighborhood and are ...
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How to generalize the various vector calculus theorems to distributions?
Here is a list of vector calculus identities; in the proof of these identities, we all assume that these functions are $𝐶^𝑘$ in an open set, and we usually use these identities to calculate ...
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What is the standard terminology for the quantity $\|\nabla f\|_{L^2(\mu)} := \sqrt{\int_{\mathbb R^d}\|\nabla f(x)\|^2d\mu(x)}$?
Let $f:\mathbb R^d \to \mathbb R$ be a continuously differentiable function and let $\mu$ be a probability measure on $\mathbb R^d$.
Question. What is the standard teminology for the quantity $\|\...
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Does this non-negative function, with no stationary points, have only descent directions close to a constraint set?
Suppose $P: \mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_{\ge 0} $ is a differentiable map, with $P(x) = 0 \ \forall x \in \mathcal{X}$ and $P(x) > 0 \ \forall x \in \mathcal{X}^c$. Further, suppose $P$ has ...
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Question about the implicit function theorem. an example of a homogeneous form for which its implicit function satisfies certain conditions
Let $F$ be a homogeneous form with coefficients in $\mathbb{R}$. Suppose it defines a smooth projective variety, in other words at every point other than the origin at least one of the first partial ...
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Is a function of several variables convex near a local minimum when the derivatives are non-degenerate?
This is a cross-post.
Let $U \subseteq \mathbb R^n$ be an open subset, and let $f:U \to \mathbb R$ be smooth. Suppose that $x \in U$ is a strict local minimum point of $f$.
Let $df^k(x):(\mathbb R^n)^...
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Conditions for a function to vanish almost nowhere on its support?
Let $f:\mathbb{R}^d\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ be a continuous function and $\mathrm{supp}(f) := \mathrm{cl}\{x\in\mathbb{R}^d\mid f(x)\neq 0\}$ its support.
Under which conditions is it true that $f≠0$ (...
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Is the minimum of a constraint optimization problem differentiable in the constraint parameter?
Let $h:\mathbb R^{>0}\to \mathbb R^{\ge 0}$ be a smooth function, satisfying $h(1)=0$, and suppose that $h(x)$ is strictly increasing on $[1,\infty)$, and strictly decreasing on $(0,1]$.
Let $s&...
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Is the optimum of this problem convex in the constraint parameter?
Let $f:\mathbb R^+ \to \mathbb R$ be a smooth function, satisfying $f(1)=0$, and suppose that
$|f|$ grows with the distance from $1$: $|f(x)|$ is strictly increasing when $x \ge 1$, and strictly ...
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Integral $ g(a)= \int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{\arctan(a \tan x)}{\tan x}dx $ [closed]
I am having trouble calculating this integral:
$$ g(a) = \int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \frac{\arctan(a \tan x)}{\tan x}dx $$
I tried calculating $g'(a)$ but then I get stuck.
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A question about multivariable calculus and optimization
Consider the function $f(x) :\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, such that $f(x)\geqslant 0\; \forall x\in \mathbb{R}$, and has a set of extremum points at $x_{j}$.
Consider the integral :
$$\int_{\bar{...
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