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48 results for Thurston's Master Teapot

We establish basic geometric and topological properties of Thurston's Master Teapot and the Thurston set for superattracting unimodal self-maps of intervals. In particular, the Master Teapot is connected, contains the unit cylinder, and its intersection with a set D×{c}\mathbb{D} \times \{c\} grows monotonically with cc.…

2019-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

In three dimensions, a `master theory' for all Thurston geometries requires imaginary flux. However, these geometries can be obtained from physical three-dimensional theories with various additional scalar fields, which can be interpreted as moduli in various compactifications of a higher-dimensional `master theory'. T…

2002-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

The string vertices of closed string field theory are subsets of the moduli spaces of punctured Riemann surfaces that satisfy a geometric version of the Batalin-Vilkovisky master equation. We present a homological proof of existence of string vertices and their uniqueness up to canonical transformations. Using hyperbol…

2019-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Master algorithm fails to detect non-stationarity in practical settings.

problem Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning without prior knowledge.
method Master algorithm tested under various conditions, including piecewise stationary multi-armed bandits.
result Master's non-stationarity detection is ineffective for practical horizons, leading to performance similar to random restarting.

We extend the Chern-Simons perturbative invariant of Axelrod and Singer to non-acyclic connections. We construct a solution of the quantum master equation on the space of functions on the cohomology of the connection. We prove that this solution is well defined up to master homotopy. We discuss also invariants of links…

2008-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We construct master spaces for oriented torsion free sheaves coupled with morphisms into a fixed reference sheaf. These spaces are projective varieties endowed with a natural $\C^*$-action. The fixed point set of this action contains the moduli space of semistable oriented torsion free sheaves and the quot scheme assoc…

1996-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Generalizes Hodge correlators using quantum master equation concepts.

problem Developing a mathematical framework for non-acyclic Chern-Simons theory.
method Introduces a DG Lie algebra of uni-trivalent graphs with loops satisfying a Maurer-Cartan equation.
result Arithmetic analogue of effective action and quantum master equation.

Master-slave architecture tackles combinatorial multi-armed bandits with diversity constraints.

problem Solving top-KK combinatorial multi-armed bandits with non-linear feedback and diversity constraints.
method Master-slave architecture with six slave models, teacher learning, and policy co-training.
result Significantly outperforms existing algorithms in synthetic and real datasets.

A master equation approach to the numerical solution of option pricing models is developed. The basic idea of the approach is to consider the Black--Scholes equation as the macroscopic equation of an underlying mesoscopic stochastic option price variable. The dynamics of the latter is constructed and formulated in term…

2002-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Optimizes master faces for 2D and 3D face verification using evolutionary algorithms and neural networks.

problem Impersonation attacks using master faces for face-based identity authentication.
method Evolutionary algorithm in latent space of StyleGAN, neural network to direct search, 2D and 3D face reconstruction.
result Obtains high impersonation rates with fewer master faces for 2D and 3D face verification.

The paper explores geometric calculations on probability manifolds derived from master equations.

problem Understanding geometric properties of probability manifolds from master equations.
method Deriving geometric quantities like Levi-Civita connection, gradient, Hessian, parallel transport, and curvatures on probability manifolds.
result Calculation of geometric quantities in probability manifolds, including curvatures and connections.

In his lectures at College de France, P.L. Lions introduced the concept of Master equation, see [5] for Mean Field Games. It is introduced in a heuristic fashion, from the system of partial differential equations, associated to a Nash equilibrium for a large, but finite, number of players. The method, also explained in…

2014-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified model explains income inequality across countries.

problem Understanding and explaining income inequality across different countries.
method Analytical model based on a master equation with growth and reset terms, tested on real data.
result Income distributions collapse on a master-curve when normalized, suggesting a universal pattern.

We construct a solution of the master equation by means of standard tools from homological perturbation theory under just the hypothesis that the ground field be of characteristic zero, thereby avoiding the formality assumption of the relevant Lie algebra. To this end we endow the homology H(g) of any differential grad…

1999-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

LocalNewton reduces communication in distributed learning.

problem Communication bottleneck in distributed optimization.
method LocalNewton is a distributed second-order algorithm with local averaging, updating models locally and communicating once every few iterations.
result LocalNewton reduces communication rounds and end-to-end running time compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.

Master's thesis reviews bundle gerbe theory and introduces new isomorphic gerbe.

problem Understanding bundle gerbe theory and its applications.
method Introduced cup product bundle gerbe and showed its isomorphism to the pullback of the basic bundle gerbe by the Weyl map.
result Stable isomorphism between cup product bundle gerbe and pullback of basic bundle gerbe by the Weyl map.

The quantum master equation is usually formulated in terms of functionals of the components of mappings from a space-time manifold M into a finite-dimensional vector space. The master equation is the sum of two terms one of which is the anti-bracket (odd Poisson bracket) of functionals and the other is the Laplacian of…

2005-03-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper extends Thurston's method to new variants of Mather-Thurston theorem.

problem Proving new variants of Mather-Thurston theorem for PL homeomorphisms and contactomorphisms.
method Generalizing Thurston's technique to prove new variants of Mather-Thurston theorem for PL homeomorphisms and contactomorphisms.
result The paper answers questions posed by Gelfand-Fuks and Greenberg on PL foliations and Rybicki on contactomorphisms.

Article explores Thurston's circle packing theorem in 3-manifold geometry.

problem Understanding Thurston's circle packing theorem in 3-manifold geometry.
method Analyzes the Koebe-Andre'ev-Thurston Theorem and its relation to Thurston's circle packing theorem.
result Illustrates the significance of Thurston's circle packing theorem in 3-manifold geometry.

Unified analytical tool for non-Markovian jump processes.

problem Analyzing history-dependent jump processes with non-Markovian behavior.
method Developed a standard form of master equations using Laplace-space embedding and asymptotic solution.
result Unified analytical toolset for general non-Markovian processes, leading to the GLE approximation.

This text arises from teaching advanced undergraduate courses in differential topology for the master curriculum in Mathematics at the University of Pisa. So it is mainly addressed to motivated and collaborative master undergraduate students, having nevertheless a limited mathematical background. Overall this text is a…

2019-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗

In earlier work, we had shown that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for Kleinian surface groups. In this paper we prove that pre-images of points are precisely end-points of leaves of the ending lamination whenever the Cannon-Thurston map is not one-to-one. In particular, the Cannon-Thurston map is finite-to-one. This comple…

2007-01-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for degenerate free groups without parabolics, i.e. for handlebody groups. Combining these techniques with earlier work proving the existence of Cannon-Thurston maps for surface groups, we show that Cannon-Thurston maps exist for arbitrary finitely generated Kleinian groups witho…

2010-02-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a solution scheme for portfolio optimization problems with cardinality constraints. Typical portfolio optimization problems are extensions of the classical Markowitz mean-variance portfolio optimization model. We solve such type of problems using a method similar to column generation. In this scheme, the o…

2018-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗