Questions tagged [regularization]
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Theta-function in the lower half-plane
Standard theta function
$$\vartheta(q)=\sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty q^{n^2} \qquad\qquad(1)$$
has a natural boundary of analyticity at $|q|=1$. This means that it can not be used to regularize expressions ...
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Is regularization of infinite sums by analytic continuation unique?
There are ill-posed summations that we can assign values to, take for concreteness,
$$ S = \sum_{k=0}^\infty k $$
to which we can assign $-1/12$ by several methods. Is there a fundamental and rigorous ...
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Less fundamental applications of Zeta regularization:
As we all know, zeta regularization is used in Quantum field theory and calculations regarding the Casimir effect.
Are there less fundamental applications of zeta function regularization? By "less ...
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Are the shapes of the $\mathbb{R}^2$ plane and a disk of infinite radius different? Or otherwise, why their areas differ by $\frac\pi{12}$?
The calculation of the area of the $\mathbb{R}^2$ plane depends on filtering used. I think, the most natural filtering is along the radius in polar coordinates:
$$S_{\mathbb{R}^2}=\int_0^\infty 2\pi ...
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Twin primes and “super-regularization”
(I know this question looks like it's not a proper research question; missing content and everything but it's just all in the paper.)
We know the "super-regularized" product of primes as:
$$ \infty \#...
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Generalised limits via derivatives of integrals?
Assuming that $f$ is a continuous function, we have that
$$f(x) = \frac{d}{dx}\int f(t)\,dt.$$
Assuming instead that $f$ has a removable singularity at $x=a$, and is otherwise continuous, we have ...
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Regularizing the sum of all primes
In the spirit of a similar question for the harmonic series, is there a way to regularize the (divergent) sum of all primes?
$$ \sum_{p \text{ prime}} p $$
Neither of these questions obtained a ...
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Expression of divergent integrals via simplier divergent integrals (or series)
Yesterday I just came to a formula that may allow to express divergent improper integrals bounded (on any finite interval) functions in terms of simple improper integrals or series.
$$\int_0^\infty f(...
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Is there a sensible way to regularize $\int_0^\infty \tan x\, dx$?
I wonder if there is any sensible generalization of regularization which would be able to ascribe finite values to $\int_0^\infty \tan x \,dx$ and $\int_{-\infty}^0 \psi(x)dx$?
Perticularly, since $\...
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Min-sum-max norm optimization with orthogonality constraint and matrix regularization [repost]
Disclaimer: this is a repost from https://math.stackexchange.com/q/3376158/443030, since the question may be a bit too elaborated.
Let $S = \{s_1,\cdots,s_N\}\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ be a finite set of ...
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Interesting questions for inverse parabolic problems
I'm looking for some interesting questions and maybe open problems in inverse problems theory, especially in the framework of parabolic PDEs (basically the heat equation). As key words here we can ...
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Proximal Operator image of convex functionals
Let $\Gamma_0$ denote the set of lower-semi-continuous convex functionals on a Hilbert space $H$. What exactly is the image of $\Gamma_0$ under the proximal operator
$$
\begin{aligned}
&\Gamma_0\...
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How to derive the solution of Tikhonov Regularization via SVD [closed]
The solution to Tikhonov Regularization is
$$x=(A^HA+\sigma^2_{min}I)^{-1}A^Hb$$
where $\sigma^2_{min}$ is the minimum of the singular values of $A$.
Then we apply $SVD$ to $A$ such that,
$$A=U\Sigma ...
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New/useful method for summation of divergent series?
Questions
$$ S(n,x) = x+e^x + e^{e^x} + e^{e^{e^x}} + \dots \text{$n$ times}$$
Also obeys (see background for argument):
$$ \frac{1}{2 \pi i} \oint e^{S(k,x)} \frac{\partial \ln(\frac{\int_0^\...
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Why we cannot speak about the main or natural regularization?
Often when asking about a regularized value of an integral or series, I encounter a negative reaction of the sorts that "regularization is what you define it".
But in practice if we consider some ...
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Regularized linear vs. RKHS-regression
I'm studying the difference between regularization in RKHS regression and linear regression, but I have a hard time grasping the crucial difference between the two.
Given input-output pairs $(x_i,y_i)...
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What is the generalized sum of the following series? $\sum _{x=1}^{\infty } \sqrt{s^2 x^2-1}$ [closed]
I tried Mathematica, various regularization methods, including Borel, with no result.
On Math.SE the question was attacked with claims that divergent series cannot have a sum, so I decided to ask at ...
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Regularization on divergent series [closed]
I want to compute $$ \sum ^{\infty }_{n=1}\dfrac {\left( 2n+k-2\right) !\zeta \left( 2n\right) \left( -1\right) ^{n-1}}{\left( 2\pi \right) ^{2n}}. $$
This series is surely not convergent for any ...
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Why to multiply the penalty by $n$ in the penalized least squares and likelihood?
In the SCAD paper by Fan and Li (2001), there exist two forms of penalized least squares as follows:
$$\frac{1}{2}\left \| y-X\beta \right \|^2+\lambda \sum_{j=1}^{d}p_j (\left | \beta _j \right |),$$
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When will the upper regularization of a bounded function not defined?
Suppose $E$ is a compact metric space.
A function $f :E \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is upper semicontinous if for all $c \in \mathbb{R}$, $f^{-1}(-\infty, c)$ is open in $E.$
For any real-valued ...
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Existence of analysis regularization solution
I am interested in the optimization problem known as "analysis regularization":
$$ {\rm argmin}_{x \in \mathbb{R}^{p}}\frac{1}{2}\|y - Ax\|_2^2 + \lambda \|D^T x\|_1,$$
where $y \in \mathbb{R}^n$, $...
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Assigning values to divergent improper integrals
I am investigating a question about possibility of assigning values to divergent improper integrals the same way as we do regularization on divergent series.
The solution to the problem seems to be ...
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Is there optimal sparse and minimum energy solution?
I am interested to know if anyone worked on the the inverse solution of the problem defined below, which means I want to find $\tilde{y}$.
$M_{\delta}^{\alpha}[\tilde{y}]=\|A\tilde{y}-\tilde{b}\|_{...
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Regularisation of $\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{(a+n^2)^p}$
As from the title, I am currently dealing with this sum
$\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{(a+n^2)^p}$
in particular with $p=1/2,3/2,...$ (but once solved for $p=1/2$ one can derive wrt $a$ and find the ...
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Difference between Sobolev norm and L2 norm for regularization?
I am interested to find a inverse solution of the problem defined below, which means I want to find $\tilde{y}$.
$M_{\delta}^{\alpha}[\tilde{y}]=\|A\tilde{y}-\tilde{b}\|_{L_2}^2 + \alpha\|\tilde{y}\|...
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Significance of Tikhonov matrix
I am looking for a tutorial on Tikhonov matrix, in the sense what it can do or it cannot do. The definition of the matrix can be obtained in the wikipedia link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Comparing sizes of sets of natural numbers
It seems natural to consider $\lim_{q \rightarrow 1^-} \sum_{n \in S} q^n - \sum_{n \in T} q^n$, when it exists, as a way of comparing the sizes of two sets $S,T \subseteq {\bf N}$ that have the same ...
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Regularization by mean curvature flow
I have a $C^{1,\alpha}$ surface defined as the graph of some function $\varphi : B \to \Bbb{R}_+$ ($B$ is a ball). This surface has positive and bounded mean curvature in the weak sense (since the ...
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Multidimensional integrals that diverge by oscillation
It's not hard to extend the theory of integration over ${\bf R}$ so that the integral of any compactly supported function is its usual value, while the integral of $f(t) = \cos (at+b)$ (with $a \neq 0$...
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A question about some notation involving the exclamation mark [closed]
What does the symbol ‘!’ signify? Is it $ \text{argmin} $? For example, $ \| A x - y \| = \min! $.
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On increasing the penalty term in convex optimization with regularization
Given the two strictly convex (unique solution) optimization problems as:
$$Problem\:1:\min_{X} f(X)+\|X\|_{F}^2 \hspace{2cm}Problem \:2:\min_{X}f(X)+n\|X\|_2^2$$
where $X\in\mathbf{S}_{++}^{n}$ (...
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double integral and Hadamard finite part
Given the divergent integral
$$ \int _{0}^{\infty}dx \int_{0}^{\infty}dy \frac{x^{2}y+1}{1+x+y} $$
how can I apply Hadamard's finite part to give a finite meaning to it ?
It is just made by ...
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General method for under and over determined systems?
Suppose I have a system:
$$
Ax = b
$$
where $A$ is a $m$ by $n$ matrix which is less than full rank (neither full column nor row rank). In my particular case $m<n$.
I'd like a combination of a ...
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Inverse problem with a rank-1 update
I hope you can help me out with this. I have to find the solution x to an inverse system
$$
x=A^{-1}b
$$
This inverse problem is basically a least square problem with a rank-1 update.
$$
x=[uv^{T}...
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What are some geometric / physical / probabilistic interpretations of the Riemann zeta function at integer arguments n ≤ 1?
Introduction: This is slightly edited and generalised version of a question I asked on the Physics Stack Exchange website. This question has a twin brother asked here on MO, only now we consider ...
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Choosing the order of Tikhonov regularization of an inverse problem
This question is migrated from math.stackexchange.
Let me first describe the problem I am trying to solve and then the question I have. I greatly appreciate anyone who can shine some light on it.
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Understanding zeta function regularization
I attended a talk this morning on Ray-Singer torsion, in which Rafael Siejakowski introduced zeta function regularization in a compelling way. The goal is to define the determinant of a positive self-...
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Regularization of Zygmund functions
Dear community.
I would like to derive a "good" estimate on $\frac{d}{dt}f_\epsilon(t)$, where $f_\epsilon$ is a regularization of a Zygmund-continuous function $f$, i.e.
$|f(x-\tau)+f(x+\tau)-2f(x)|...
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Nonlinear circle fit with known radius
I have data points from a half circle and I already know the approximate radius. I want to find the circle which best fits the points using a fixed radius. How can I do this? If I solve the problem ...
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What is the regularity of the argument of a complex function?
Let $\psi=f+ig=\rho e^{i\theta}$ be a complex function on some open subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$, where $f,g,\rho$ and $\theta$ are real-valued. I happened to find that the identity of differentiation for ...
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What's the correct notion of determinant of a bilinear pairing?
By a pairing on a vector space $V$, I mean a linear map $A : V \otimes V \to R$. If $V$ is $n$-dimensional ($n < \infty$), then I can define the determinant of $A$ by considering the canonical ...
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Zeta-function regularization of determinants and traces
The short answer to my question may be a pointer to the right text. I will give all the background I know, and then ask my questions in list form.
Let A be an operator (on an infinite-dimensional ...
