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Critical surfaces can be regarded as topological index 2 minimal surfaces which was introduced by David Bachman. In this paper we give a sufficient condition and a necessary condition for self-amalgamated Heegaard surfaces to be critical.

The distance function to a generic submanifold behaves well under small perturbations.

The paper proves critical point results for Frechet manifolds.

We introduce $Z$-critical connections for holomorphic vector bundles and prove their existence under stability conditions.

This paper studies properties of weak reducing pairs in critical Heegaard splittings.

Bi-Lipschitz proof for 2-varifolds near critical Allard condition.

We study closed $n$-dimensional manifolds of which the metrics are critical for quadratic curvature functionals involving the Ricci curvature, the scalar curvature and the Riemannian curvature tensor on the space of Riemannian metrics with unit volume. Under some additional integral conditions, we classify such manifol…

The critical catenoid is uniquely determined by certain symmetries of its boundary.

Characterizes solutions to Z-critical equations on surfaces using effective conditions.

Rigidity for 4D Willmore submanifolds with boundary.

Critical surfaces are defined by Bachman as topological index 2 surfaces, generalizing incompressible surfaces and strongly irreducible surfaces. In this paper we give a condition to obtain critical Heegaard surfaces by amalgamation. As a special case, we obtain critical Heegaard surfaces by boundary stabilization. It …

Study on critical points in random neural networks, revealing three regimes based on activation function.

TOPPO improves PPO for MTRL by balancing critic gradients, outperforming SAC.

Characterizes infinite harmonic maps using 1-currents.

The paper finds sign-changing solutions for a specific type of elliptic equation.

Paper finds critical metrics with pinched curvature are geodesic balls.

We give a necessary condition for a closed subset of $R^3$ to be the set of critical points of some smooth function. In particular we obtain that for example neither the Whitehead continuum nor the p-adic solenoid are such a critical sets.

Simplified neural network EFTs reveal a single critical condition.

When f : R power n to R power p, is a surjective real analytic map with isolated critical value, we prove that the (m)-regularity condition (in a sense we define) ensures that f ||f|| is a fibration on small spheres, f induces a fibration on the tubes and both fibrations are equivalent. In particular, we make the state…

Study on critical Lagrangian phase singularities in mean curvature flow.

The paper studies critical points of horizontal energy functional in Riemannian foliations.

Enhanced Sampling Scheme improves masked generative modeling.

The Palais-Smale condition is proven for various knot energies.

New existence results for curvature problem on balls with specific conditions.

We propose a new algorithm to incorporate class conditional information into the critic of GANs via a multi-class generalization of the commonly used Hinge loss that is compatible with both supervised and semi-supervised settings. We study the compromise between training a state of the art generator and an accurate cla…

In relativity, the energy of a moving particle depends on the observer, and the rest mass is the minimal energy seen among all observers. The Wang-Yau quasi-local mass for a surface in spacetime introduced in [7] and [8] is defined by minimizing quasi-local energy associated with admissible isometric embeddings of the …

Enhances reinforcement learning with partial state information.

Paper proves convex domains have one maximum for semi-stable solutions.

Study semilinear equations on weighted manifolds to prove rigidity.

The study finds conditions for minimal spheres into ellipsoids using eigenfunctions.

Learning the distribution of natural images is one of the hardest and most important problems in machine learning. The problem remains open, because the enormous complexity of the structures in natural images spans all length scales. We break down the complexity of the problem and show that the hierarchy of structures …

We reformulate the option framework as two parallel augmented MDPs. Under this novel formulation, all policy optimization algorithms can be used off the shelf to learn intra-option policies, option termination conditions, and a master policy over options. We apply an actor-critic algorithm on each augmented MDP, yieldi…

In this paper we prove rigidity results on critical metrics for quadratic curvature functionals, involving the Ricci and the scalar curvature, on the space of Riemannian metrics with unit volume. It is well-known that Einstein metrics are always critical points. The purpose of this article is to show that, under some c…

The Levy-Gromov inequality states that round spheres have the least isoperimetric profile (normalized by total volume) among Riemannian manifolds with a fixed positive lower bound on the Ricci tensor. In this note we study critical metrics corresponding to the Levy-Gromov inequality and prove that, in two-dimensions, t…

The integral of the energy density function $\mathfrak m$ of a closed Robertson-Walker (RW) spacetime with source a perfect fluid and cosmological constant $Λ$ gives rise to an action functional on the space of scale functions of RW spacetime metrics. This paper studies closed RW spacetimes which are critical for this …

On the space of positive 3-forms on a seven-manifold, we study a natural functional whose critical points induce metrics with holonomy contained in $G_2$. We prove short-time existence and uniqueness for its negative gradient flow. Furthermore, we show that the flow exists for all times and converges modulo diffeomorph…

The paper studies Hawkes processes under mean-field limits and criticality conditions.

On a compact $n$-dimensional manifold, it is well known that a critical metric of the total scalar curvature, restricted to the space of metrics with unit volume is Einstein. It has been conjectured that a critical metric of the total scalar curvature, restricted to the space of metrics with constant scalar curvature o…

Many policy gradient methods are variants of Actor-Critic (AC), where a value function (critic) is learned to facilitate updating the parameterized policy (actor). The update to the actor involves a log-likelihood update weighted by the action-values, with the addition of entropy regularization for soft variants. In th…

Study on curve diffusion flows with scale-critical curvature term.

In this paper, we investigate critical points of the Laplacian's eigenvalues considered as functionals on the space of Riemmannian metrics or a conformal class of metrics on a compact manifold. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a metric to be a critical point of such a functional. We derive specific con…

Study on p-Laplacian problems with critical exponent, focusing on existence of solutions.

Our objective is to develop a stratified Morse theory with tangential conditions. We define a continuous strata-wise smooth Morse function on an abstract stratified space by using control conditions and radiality assumptions on the gradient vector field. For critical points of a Morse function one can show that the loc…

Paper proves Łojasiewicz inequalities near simple bubble trees on surfaces.

The paper proves conditions under which critical point metrics are Einstein.

If $(M,g)$ is a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\ge 2$ we give necessary and sufficient conditions for improved $L^p(M)$-norms of eigenfunctions for all $2<p\ne p_c=\tfrac{2(n+1)}{n-1}$, the critical exponent. Since improved $L^{p_c}(M)$ bounds imply improvement all other exponents, these conditions are nece…

The study examines higher-order modern portfolio theory with complex critical points and feasible portfolio variety.

Rigidity theorem for special metrics on 4-manifolds.