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48 results for Kac dynamics

Study of mean curvature flows with conical singularities using mathematical techniques.

problem Understanding the dynamics of mean curvature flows near conical singularities.
method Feynman-Kac formula and invariant cone method for noncompact settings.
result Generic initial perturbations avoid conical singularities in mean curvature flows.

We investigate in detail the class of Euclidean affine Kac-Moody symmetric spaces and their orthogonal symmetric affine Kac-Moody algebras (OSAKAs). These spaces are the only class of Kac-Moody symmetric spaces, that is not directly derived from affine Kac-Moody algebras in the classical sense.

2013-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified kernel framework extends to stochastic systems, improving numerical stability.

problem Extending kernel methods to stochastic dynamical systems with diffusion.
method Unified kernel framework, Feynman-Kac path-integral representations, collocation-based computational framework.
result Kernel equivalence under uniform ellipticity assumptions and improved numerical stability with moderate diffusion.

Since the work of Henri Cartan finite dimensional Riemannian symmetric spaces are an important subject of mathematical interest. They are related in a natural way to semisimple Lie groups. In this work we introduce and study their infinite dimensional generalization: Affine Kac-Moody symmetric spaces. Affine Kac-Moody …

2011-09-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Riemannian symmetric spaces are fundamental objects in finite dimensional differential geometry. An important problem is the construction of symmetric spaces for generalizations of simple Lie groups, especially their closest infinite dimensional analogues known as Kac-Moody groups. We solve this problem and construct a…

2013-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

A subgroup of a Kac-Moody group is called bounded if it is contained in the intersection of two finite type parabolic subgroups of opposite signs. In this paper, we study the isomorphisms between Kac-Moody groups over arbitrary fields of cardinality at least 4, which preserve the set of bounded subgroups. We show that …

2005-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

We study spin structures on affine Kac-Moody symmetric spaces and obtain sufficient conditions for their existence.\ As a by product of this, we obtain a spin-c representation of certain Kac-Moody quadratic subgroups of type E.

2017-10-30abs ↗pdf ↗

The geometry of symmetric spaces, polar actions, isoparametric submanifolds and spherical buildings is governed by spherical Weyl groups and simple Lie groups. A natural generalization of semisimple Lie groups are affine Kac-Moody groups as they mirror their structure theory and have good explicitely known representati…

2010-03-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The relationship between minimal algebraic Kac-Moody groups and twin buildings is well known as is the relationship between formal completions in one direction and affine buildings. Nevertheless, as the completion of a Kac-Moody group in one direction destroys the opposite BN-pair, there exists no longer a twin buildin…

2010-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

This is an introduction to Wiener measure and the Feynman-Kac formula on general Riemannian manifolds for Riemannian geometers with little or no background in stochastics. We explain the construction of Wiener measure based on the heat kernel in full detail and we prove the Feynman-Kac formula for Schrödinger operators…

2011-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗

This study quantifies systemic importance in global banks using a continuous framework that amplifies localized shocks.

problem Analyzing financial contagion and systemic risk in global banks.
method Developed a continuous framework incorporating geographic proximity and interbank network linkages, using a master equation and Feynman-Kac representation.
result The amplification factor correctly identifies systemically important institutions and predicts crisis outcomes.

Extends PF submanifold results and connects Kac-Moody spaces.

problem Computational results and submanifold geometry of PF actions.
method Defines isomorphism between Hilbert spaces, shows equivariance, and uses parallel transport.
result Shows natural isomorphism between Kac-Moody spaces of group type.

We prove Bismut-type formulae for the first and second derivatives of a Feynman-Kac semigroup on a complete Riemannian manifold. We derive local estimates and give bounds on the logarithmic derivatives of the integral kernel. Stationary solutions are also considered. The arguments are based on local martingales, althou…

2016-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We describe some buildings related to complex Kac-Moody groups. First we describe the spherical building of SLn(C) (i.e. the projective geometry PG(Cn)) and its Veronese representation. Next we recall the construction of the affine building associated to a discrete valuation on the rational function field C(z)C(z). Then …

2001-09-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper develops a Feynman-Kac formula for perturbations of order ≤ 1 in noncommutative geometry.

problem Analyzing perturbations of order ≤ 1 in noncommutative geometry.
method Develops a Feynman-Kac formula for differential operators of order ≤ 1 on complex metric vector bundles over Riemannian manifolds.
result Explicit Feynman-Kac type formula for holomorphic semigroups generated by QQ.

The Kac-Ward formula allows to compute the Ising partition function on a planar graph G with straight edges from the determinant of a matrix of size 2N, where N denotes the number of edges of G. In this paper, we extend this formula to any finite graph: the partition function can be written as an alternating sum of the…

2010-04-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Functional-analytic method for stochastic parallel transport in bundles.

problem Stochastic parallel transport in Hermitian bundles over Riemannian manifolds.
method Purely functional-analytic construction.
result Obtained a general Feynman-Kac formula in vector bundles.

New method trains partial Bayesian neural networks efficiently.

problem Challenges in approximating multi-modal latent variable distributions in pBNNs.
method Formulates pBNN training as a Feynman--Kac model and uses sequential Monte Carlo samplers.
result Proposed training scheme outperforms state of the art in predictive performance.

FlowKac solves high-dimensional Fokker-Planck equations efficiently.

problem Intractability of Fokker-Planck equation solutions in high dimensions.
method Reformulates Fokker-Planck using Feynman-Kac, adaptive stochastic sampling, and normalizing flows.
result Significant computational efficiency and accuracy improvements over existing methods.

For spherical Tits buildings of the classical types there are well-known explicit descriptions as flag complexes. Similarly for affine buildings of the classical types there are explicit constructions in terms of lattices. In this article we generalize the flag complex description to twin cities, a generalization of tw…

2011-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper investigates sufficient conditions for a Feynman-Kac functional up to an exit time to be the generalized viscosity solution of a Dirichlet problem. The key ingredient is to find out the continuity of exit operator under Skorokhod topology, which reveals the intrinsic connection between overfitting Dirichlet …

2018-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We analyze the landscape of empirical risk minimization for high-dimensional models, predicting phase transitions and critical point properties.

problem Understanding the complexity and structure of high-dimensional empirical risk landscapes.
method Using the Kac-Rice formula, we analyze the expected number of critical points and their spectral properties, providing detailed predictions.
result We derive complete topological phase diagrams for the phase retrieval problem, predicting BBP-type transitions and critical point stability.

Improved diffusion models using energy distillation and sequential Monte Carlo.

problem Training instability and inferior performance in energy parameterized diffusion models.
method Introduced a novel training regime for energy functions through distillation of pre-trained diffusion models, and cast the sampling procedure as a Feynman Kac model.
result Demonstrated improved performance and new sampling techniques.

Classifies central extensions for area-preserving diffeomorphisms and shows they are fuzzy sphere limits.

problem Classifying central extensions for area-preserving diffeomorphisms.
method Classifying central extensions and showing they are fuzzy sphere limits of Kac-Moody cocycles.
result Central extensions are fuzzy sphere limits of Kac-Moody cocycles for large k.

Some moduli spaces of irregular connections on the trivial bundle over the Riemann sphere will be identified with Nakajima quiver varieties. In particular this enables us to associate a Kac-Moody root system to such connections (yielding many isomorphisms between such moduli spaces, via the reflection functors for the …

2008-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

ACSSM models irregular time series with continuous dynamics.

problem Modeling irregular time series data.
method ACSSM uses a multi-marginal Doob's h-transform and variational inference with stochastic optimal control.
result ACSSM outperforms in tasks like classification, regression, interpolation, and extrapolation.

Let ΩMΩ\subset M be an open subset of a Riemannian manifold MM and let $V:M\to \IR$ be a Kato decomposable potential. With W01,2(M;V)W^{1,2}_{0}(M;V) the natural form domain of the Schrödinger operator Δ+V-Δ+V in L2(M)L^2(M), in this paper we study systematically the following question: Under which assumption on ΩΩ is the statem…

2017-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Research characterizes intersection cohomology groups of gauge theories and cotangent bundles.

problem Characterizing intersection cohomology groups of Coulomb branch gauge theories.
method Uses geometric Satake correspondence for Kac-Moody settings.
result Sketches proof of conjecture in affine type A.

We prove existence, regularity and a Feynman-Kač representation formula of the strong solution to the free boundary problem arising in the financial problem of the pricing of the American Asian option with arithmetic average.

2009-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗