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48 results for Phase boundaries

Study proves existence of a specific type of flow in geometry.

problem Existence of canonical multi-phase free boundary Brakke flows.
method Global-in-time existence established using Brakke flow and uniform density ratio assumption.
result Existence of the flow with no positive mass on the free boundary for some short time.

Paper proves gradient estimates for Lagrangian mean curvature equation.

problem Proving gradient estimates for Lagrangian mean curvature equation.
method Interior gradient estimates for critical and supercritical Lagrangian mean curvature equation.
result Solves Dirichlet boundary value problem for critical and supercritical Lagrangian mean curvature equation.

We study classical solutions to the one-phase free boundary problem in which the free boundary consists of smooth curves and the components of the positive phase are simply-connected. We show that if two components of the free boundary are close, then the solution locally resembles an entire solution discovered by Haus…

2014-12-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We construct a smooth axially symmetric solution to the classical one phase free boundary problem in RN\mathbb{R}^{N}. Its free boundary is of \textquotedblleft catenoid\textquotedblright\ type. This is a higher dimensional analogy of the Hauswirth-Helein-Pacard solution in R\mathbb{R}% ^{2} (\cite{Pacard}). The exist…

2017-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Sharp bound on singular set dimension for specific geometric problems.

problem Hausdorff dimension of singular set in free boundary problems.
method Analysis of noncollapsed limits of manifolds with Ricci curvature bounds.
result Dimension bound of singular set is n5n-5.

New phases identified in neural scaling laws with compute limits.

problem Understanding neural scaling laws under compute constraints.
method Solved neural scaling model with stochastic gradient descent, derived loss curves, analyzed model-parameter-count phases.
result Identified 4 phases (+3 subphases) in data-complexity/target-complexity phase-plane, derived exponents.

Study the singular limit of a boundary reaction equation, showing energy concentration and varifold support.

problem Analyzing the singular limit of a boundary reaction equation.
method Investigates the critical points of the boundary reaction equation \((-Δ)^{\frac{1}{2}}u = \frac{1}{\varepsilon}(u-u^3)\) in \(U \subset \mathbb{R}^n\).
result Shows existence of an (n1)(n-1)-rectifiable energy concentration set and associates limit energy measures to a stationary varifold.

Common models for two-phase lipid bilayer membranes are based on an energy that consists of an elastic term for each lipid phase and a line energy at interfaces. Although such an energy controls only the length of interfaces, the membrane surface is usually assumed to be at least C1C^1 across phase boundaries. We consi…

2016-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that for three dimensional gravity with higher genus boundary conditions, if the theory possesses a sufficiently light scalar, there is a second order phase transition where the scalar field condenses. This three dimensional version of the holographic superconducting phase transition occurs even though the pure…

2018-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We study Generalised Restricted Boltzmann Machines with generic priors for units and weights, interpolating between Boolean and Gaussian variables. We present a complete analysis of the replica symmetric phase diagram of these systems, which can be regarded as Generalised Hopfield models. We underline the role of the r…

2016-12-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework explains adversarial examples in neural nets.

problem Adversarial examples in deep neural networks are counterintuitive and hard to explain.
method Introduces Dimpled Manifold Model to explain training phases and adversarial examples.
result Shows how adversarial examples arise from training dynamics and dimpling phase.

Constructs minimal capillary cones with specific symmetry and proves their existence and uniqueness.

problem Proves existence and uniqueness of minimal capillary cones with bi-orthogonal symmetry.
method Solves a nonlinear free boundary equation parametrized by the contact angle and uses monotonicity properties.
result Demonstrates that minimizing capillary hypersurfaces can have singularities in codimension 7.

Gradient descent dynamics in quadratic regression models are analyzed, revealing five phases: monotonic, catapult, periodic, chaotic, and divergent.

problem Analyzing the dynamics of gradient descent in quadratic regression models.
method Fine-grained bifurcation analysis of gradient descent dynamics using a cubic map parameterized by the step-size.
result Gradient descent dynamics in quadratic regression models exhibit five distinct phases: monotonic, catapult, periodic, chaotic, and divergent.

We study the Dirichlet problem for the Lagrangian phase operator, in both the real and complex setting. Our main result states that if ΩΩ is a compact domain in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} or Cn\mathbb{C}^n, then there exists a solution to the Dirichlet problem with right-hand side h(x)h(x) satisfying h(x)>(n2)π2|h(x)| > (n-2)\fracπ{2} and…

2016-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep neural networks near edge of chaos show universal scaling laws.

problem Understanding the behavior of deep neural networks near critical points.
method Analogy to absorbing phase transitions in statistical mechanics, deterministic propagation dynamics, mean-field and directed percolation universality classes.
result Deep neural networks exhibit universal scaling laws near the edge of chaos.

Study phase transition in liquid crystal droplets using mathematical analysis.

problem Mathematical analysis of phase transition between isotropic and nematic states of liquid crystals.
method Rigorous mathematical analysis using the Ericksen model and Γ-convergence theory.
result Γ-limit provides geometric description and anchoring conditions for liquid crystal orientations.

Study on combustion theory solutions, proving nondegeneracy and stability in limit.

problem One-phase singular perturbation problem in combustion theory.
method Introduce density condition to preserve nondegeneracy, classify stable solutions.
result Global stable solutions have flat level sets in dimensions ≤ 4.

We analyze the statistics of daily price change of stock market in the framework of a statistical physics model for the collective fluctuation of stock portfolio. In this model the time series of price changes are coded into the sequences of up and down spins, and the Hamiltonian of the system is expressed by spin-spin…

2001-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the problem of approximate ranking from observations of pairwise interactions. The goal is to estimate the underlying ranks of nn objects from data through interactions of comparison or collaboration. Under a general framework of approximate ranking models, we characterize the exact optimal statistical error …

2017-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Study reconstructs Riemannian metric from Cherenkov radiation in complex media.

problem Reconstructing internal geometry of inhomogeneous anisotropic targets.
method Mathematical model of waves in medium, including vector-valued wave operator and phase velocity.
result Riemannian metric inside a bounded region can be reconstructed from boundary measurements of Cherenkov radiation.

Study of two-layer ReLU neural network phase diagram at infinite-width limit.

problem Characterize the dynamical regimes of two-layer ReLU neural networks.
method Combining experimental and theoretical approaches, including phase diagram analogy.
result Identification of three regimes: linear, critical, and condensed.

Paper analyzes latent space geometry in generative models using Fisher information.

problem Understanding the structure of latent spaces in generative models.
method Reconstructs Fisher information metric from generated samples and posterior distribution.
result Reveals fractal structure and abrupt changes in Fisher metric at phase boundaries.

Finite index solutions to Bernoulli problem are always axially symmetric.

problem Entire solutions to the Bernoulli free boundary problem with finite Morse index in 3D.
method Proof of axial symmetry for finite index solutions.
result Finite index solutions to the Bernoulli problem in 3D are axially symmetric.

One-Class Boundary Peeling detects outliers efficiently and robustly.

problem Unsupervised outlier detection in diverse data distributions.
method One-Class Boundary Peeling uses flexible boundaries generated by one-class SVMs and iteratively peels them.
result One-Class Boundary Peeling outperforms state-of-the-art methods in synthetic data simulations.

Moving boundary problems allow to model systems with phase transition at an inner boundary. Driven by problems in economics and finance, in particular modeling of limit order books, we consider a stochastic and non-linear extension of the classical Stefan-problem in one space dimension, where the paths of the moving in…

2016-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗