arXiv research

New equivalences found linking parabolicity, comparison principle, and capacity on Riemannian manifolds.

Study curve flows with global forcing terms using a distance comparison principle.

We give a version of the comparison principle from pluripotential theory where the Monge-Ampère measure is replaced by the Bergman kernel and use it to derive a maximum principle

New distance comparison principle for curve shortening flow in higher dimensions.

The paper proves a comparison principle for complex Monge-Ampère flows and solves a uniqueness problem.

Paper studies apparent horizon dynamics and introduces a null comparison principle.

We present a number of related comparison results, which allow to compare moment explosion times, moment generating functions and critical moments between rough and non-rough Heston models of stochastic volatility. All results are based on a comparison principle for certain non-linear Volterra integral equations. Our u…

We study weak solutions to degenerate quasilinear elliptic equations, involving first order terms, in unbounded tubular domains. In particular we show that, under suitable hypotheses, the weak comparison principle holds if the domain is narrow enough.

We extend Bony's propagation of support argument \cite{Bony} to $C^1$ solutions of the non-homogeneous sub-elliptic $p-$Laplacian associated to a system of smooth vector fields satisfying Hörmander's finite rank condition. As a consequence we prove a strong maximum principle and strong comparison principle that general…

Viscosity solutions are suitable notions in the study of nonlinear PDEs justified by estimates established via the maximum principle or the comparison principle. Here we prove that the isoperimetric profile functions of Riemannian manifolds with Ricci lower bound are viscosity super-solutions of some nonlinear differen…

We consider an integro-differential equation derived from a system of coupled parabolic PDE and an ODE which describes an European option pricing with liquidity shocks. We study the well-posedness and prove comparison principle for the corresponding initial value problem.

We establish interior Lipschitz regularity for continuous viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear, conformally invariant, degenerate elliptic equations. As a by-product of our method, we also prove a weak form of the strong comparison principle, which we refer to as the principle of propagation of touching points, for o…

Study on maximum principles for nonlinear equations on Riemannian manifolds.

Study controlled contagion with state-dependent killing, proving a comparison principle.

We present a criterion for the stochastic completeness of a submanifold in terms of its distance to a hypersurface in the ambient space. This relies in a suitable version of the Hessian comparison theorem. In the sequel we apply a comparison principle with geometric barriers for establishing mean curvature estimates fo…

Study of complex Hessian equations using subharmonic functions and geodesics.

Study compares nodal sets of solutions to the Allen-Cahn equation.

In this paper, we use the distance comparison principle, first been developed by G. Huisken, to study the spatial curve shortening flow. We have got the result that if the initial curve is the helix, then the local minimum of the ratio of the extrinsic and intrinsic distance is non-decreasing. And we have proved a Gray…

Many complex systems can be represented as networks, and the problem of network comparison is becoming increasingly relevant. There are many techniques for network comparison, from simply comparing network summary statistics to sophisticated but computationally costly alignment-based approaches. Yet it remains challeng…

In this paper we provide a characterization of second order fully nonlinear CR invariant equations on the Heisenberg group, which is the analogue in the CR setting of the result proved in the Euclidean setting by A. Li and the first author (2003). We also prove a comparison principle for solutions of second order fully…

Study compares nonsmooth spaces with integrable Ricci bounds.

In this paper we prove Hessian and Laplacian comparison theorems for the Lorentzian distance function in a spacetime with sectional (or Ricci) curvature bounded by a certain function by means of a comparison criterion for Riccati equations. Using these results, under suitable conditions, we are able to obtain some esti…

New principles needed for scaling large language models, challenging traditional regularization methods.

Solves Monge-Ampère equations on compact Hessian manifolds using the Perron method.

Using a maximum principle for self-shrinkers of the mean curvature flow, we give new proofs of a rigidity theorem for rotationally symmetric compact self-shrinkers and a result about the asymptotic behavior of self-shrinkers. This comparison argument also implies a linear bound for the second fundamental form of self-s…

Proposes a revenue function to evaluate dendrograms from comparisons.

We address the classical problem of hierarchical clustering, but in a framework where one does not have access to a representation of the objects or their pairwise similarities. Instead, we assume that only a set of comparisons between objects is available, that is, statements of the form "objects $i$ and $j$ are more …

In this note, we describe the Hermitian metrics that leave the total Monge-Ampere volume invariant. In particular, we give several characterizations of the Hermitian metrics which satisfy the comparison principle for the complex Monge-Ampere operator

Developing a non-symmetric strainer theory for spaces with non-negative curvature beyond Alexandrov geometry.

We study the strong maximum principle for horizontal (p-) mean curvature operator and p-(sub)laplacian operator on subriemannian manifolds including, in particular, Heisenberg groups and Heisenberg cylinders. Under a certain Hormander type condition on vector fields, we show the strong maximum principle holds in higher…

This paper deals with continuity preservation when minimizing generalized total variation with a $L^2$ fidelity term or a Dirichlet boundary condition. We extend several recent results in the two cases, mainly by showing comparison principles for the prescribed mean curvature problem satisfied by the level-sets of such…

MIRA scores assess conditional distribution accuracy using joint samples.

Paper develops MRCs for supervised classification using generalized maximum entropy.

The comparison principle for scalar second order parabolic PDEs on functions $u(t,x)$ admits a topological interpretation: pairs of solutions, $u^1(t,\cdot)$ and $u^2(t,\cdot)$, evolve so as to not increase the intersection number of their graphs. We generalize to the case of multiple solutions $\{u^α(t,\cdot)\}_{α=1}^…

We give a Weierstrass type representation for semi-discrete minimal surfaces in Euclidean 3-space. We then give explicit parametrizations of various smooth, semi-discrete and fully-discrete catenoids, determined from either variational or integrable systems principles. Finally, we state the shared properties that those…

We apply stochastic Perron's method to a singular control problem where an individual targets at a given consumption rate, invests in a risky financial market in which trading is subject to proportional transaction costs, and seeks to minimize her probability of lifetime ruin. Without relying on the dynamic programming…

In this paper we study smooth solutions to a fractional mean curvature flow equation. We establish a comparison principle and consequences such as uniqueness and finite extinction time for compact solutions. We also establish evolutions equations for fractional geometric quantities that yield preservation of certain qu…

Study values American passport options in an exponential Lévy model.

This is the content of the lectures given by the author at the winter school KAWA3 held at the University of Barcelona in 2012 from January 30 to February 3. The main goal was to give an account of viscosity techniques and to apply them to degenerate Complex Monge-Ampère equations following recent works of P. Eyssidieu…

New method uses model comparison signals to improve LLM evaluation accuracy.

We develop a categorical index calculus for elliptic symbol families. The categorified index problems we consider are a secondary version of the traditional problem of expressing the index class in K-theory in terms of differential-topological data. They include orientation problems for moduli spaces as well as similar…

We consider the value function originating from an expected utility maximization problem with finite fuel constraint and show its close relation to a nonlinear parabolic degenerated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation with singularity. On one hand, we give a so-called verification argument based on the dynamic progr…

We propose a new model for digital pathology segmentation, based on the observation that histopathology images are inherently symmetric under rotation and reflection. Utilizing recent findings on rotation equivariant CNNs, the proposed model leverages these symmetries in a principled manner. We present a visual analysi…

Data in the form of pairwise comparisons arises in many domains, including preference elicitation, sporting competitions, and peer grading among others. We consider parametric ordinal models for such pairwise comparison data involving a latent vector $w^* \in \mathbb{R}^d$ that represents the "qualities" of the $d$ ite…

Enhances Bayesian model comparison with a probabilistic framework for meta-uncertainty.

Deep learning improves option pricing in incomplete markets.

In this paper we study the generalized mean curvature flow of sets in the sub-Riemannian geometry of Carnot groups. We extend to our context the level sets method and the weak (viscosity) solutions introduced in the Euclidean setting by Evans-Spruck and Chen-Giga-Goto. We establish two special cases of the comparison p…

New model accounts for scale variation and noise in pairwise comparisons.