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A-Ward p{eta} improves hierarchical clustering with faster convergence and better recovery.

problem Hierarchical clustering's slow convergence and limited cluster variety.
method Anomalous pattern initialisation and extension of Ward and Ward p algorithms.
result A-Ward p{eta} provides better cluster recovery than Ward and Ward p.

The Ward equation, also called the modified 2+1 chiral model, is obtained by a dimension reduction and a gauge fixing from the self-dual Yang-Mills field equation on R2,2R^{2,2}. It has a Lax pair and is an integrable system. Ward constructed solitons whose extended solutions have distinct simple poles. He also used a li…

2004-05-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Conditions for Penrose-Ward transformation on specific manifolds.

problem Conditions for Penrose-Ward transformation on almost G2G_2-manifolds with almost twistorial structures.
method Necessary and sufficient conditions derived through Penrose-Ward transformation.
result Conditions for Penrose-Ward transformation on almost G2G_2-manifolds with almost twistorial structures.

The moduli space of static finite energy solutions to Ward's integrable chiral model is the space MNM_N of based rational maps from $\CP^1$ to itself with degree NN. The Lagrangian of Ward's model gives rise to a Kähler metric and a magnetic vector potential on this space. However, the magnetic field strength vanishes…

2004-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Using the `Riemann Problem with zeros' method, Ward has constructed exact solutions to a (2+1)-dimensional integrable Chiral Model, which exhibit solitons with nontrivial scattering. We give a correspondence between what we conjecture to be all pure soliton solutions and certain holomorphic vector bundles on a compact …

1997-07-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that, in quaternionic geometry, the Ward transform is a manifestation of the functoriality of the basic correspondence between the ρρ-quaternionic manifolds and their twistor spaces. We apply this fact, together with the Penrose transform, to obtain existence results for hypercomplex manifolds and for harmonic…

2015-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The space-time monopole equation is obtained from a dimension reduction of the anti-self dual Yang-Mills equation on R2,2\R^{2,2}. A family of Ward equations is obtained by gauge fixing from the monopole equation. In this paper, we give an introduction and a survey of the space-time monopole equation. Included are altern…

2006-02-27abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

We use the compactified twistor correspondence for the (2+1)-dimensional integrable chiral model to prove a conjecture of Ward. In particular, we construct the correspondence space of a compactified twistor fibration and use it to prove that the second Chern numbers of the holomorphic vector bundles, corresponding to t…

2015-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Derives stress-energy identities in Liouville theory on compact surfaces.

problem Stress-energy tensor correlation functions on compact Riemann surfaces.
method Varying correlation functions with respect to background metric, treating different types of variations separately.
result Stress-energy correlation functions expressed as differential operators acting on primary field correlation functions.

Improves hierarchical clustering in Euclidean space using autoencoders.

problem Lack of unsupervised methods for learning hierarchical structure in Euclidean space.
method Variational autoencoder with Gaussian mixture prior, rescaling latent space, and Ward's linkage.
result Improved dendrogram purity and Moseley-Wang cost function results.

ClustGeo uses Ward-like clustering with spatial constraints in R.

problem Hierarchical clustering with spatial/geographical constraints.
method Ward-like hierarchical clustering algorithm with two dissimilarity matrices and a mixing parameter.
result Determines optimal spatial contiguity without sacrificing variable quality.

New framework estimates staged tree models using hierarchical clustering on the probability simplex.

problem Estimating staged tree models with context-specific dependencies.
method Hierarchical clustering on the probability simplex, using simplex-based divergences and linkage methods.
result Total Variation divergence with Ward.D2 linkage produces staged trees with better model fit, structure recovery, and computational efficiency.

Method clusters molecular systems based on dynamics or structure similarity.

problem Clustering molecular systems based on dynamics or structure similarity.
method Ward's minimum variance clustering using Jensen-Shannon divergence.
result Method avoids overfitting in supervised learning.

Ward2ICU dataset protects patient privacy while generating synthetic ICU transitions data.

problem Protecting patient privacy while creating synthetic ICU transition data.
method Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to generate synthetic data, class label balancing.
result Quality of synthetic data generation assessed through binary classification task.

The Kac-Ward formula allows to compute the Ising partition function on any finite graph G from the determinant of 2^{2g} matrices, where g is the genus of a surface in which G embeds. We show that in the case of isoradially embedded graphs with critical weights, these determinants have quite remarkable properties. Firs…

2011-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey on 2k2k-Hitchin equations and Higgs bundles from geometric perspective.

problem Understanding 2k2k-Hitchin equations through Higgs bundles and complex geometry.
method Review of Higgs bundles, holomorphic vector bundles, and Hermite-Yang-Mills equations; geometric tools applied to simplify equations.
result Simplified 2k2k-Hitchin equations to a set of two equations for Higgs bundles.

Simplified geometric derivation of quantum A-polynomials for knots.

problem Deriving quantum A-polynomials for knots in a simple geometric way.
method Geometric derivation using Ward identities in Chern-Simons theory, contact geometry, and Kauffman calculus.
result Simplified presentation of quantum A-polynomials, making them accessible to a broader audience.

Geometric method captures rare topics and temporal alignment in co-author networks.

problem Missing rare topics and smooth temporal alignment in topic modeling.
method Integrates multimodal text and co-author network data using Hellinger distances and Ward's linkage.
result Effective identification of rare topics and visualization of topic drift over time.

The paper defines ASD connections and constructs families over a 5D Heisenberg group.

problem Defining and constructing ASD connections over a 5D Heisenberg group.
method Geometric approach using twistor spaces and Atiyah-Ward ansätz.
result Construction of families of ASD connections and their relation to vector bundles.

Study on type-D metrics aligned with Einstein-Maxwell equations, deriving solutions.

problem Understanding metrics with specific Weyl tensor types and their properties.
method Reinterpretation of Araneda's results using Toda field equation and application of Ward's method.
result Metrics can be expressed using solutions of the SU()SU(\infty)-Toda field equation and axisymmetric solutions of the Laplacian.

Probabilistic Boolean tensor decomposition improves accuracy and scalability.

problem Approximating multi-way binary data with interpretable low-rank factors.
method Scalable sampling-based posterior inference exploiting combinatorial structure.
result Maximum a posteriori decompositions outperform existing techniques.

We show that a twistor construction of Hitchin and Ward can be adapted to study unitons (harmonic spheres in a unitary group). Specifically, we show that unitons are equivalent to holomorphic bundles with extra structure over a rational ruled surface with energy given by Chern class. This equivalence allows us to confi…

1995-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We establish a Penrose-Ward transform yielding a bijection between holomorphic principal 2-bundles over a twistor space and non-Abelian self-dual tensor fields on six-dimensional flat space-time. Extending the twistor space to supertwistor space, we derive sets of manifestly N=(1,0) and N=(2,0) supersymmetric non-Abeli…

2012-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The Lax formulation of the hyper-Hermiticity condition in four dimensions is used to derive a potential that generalises Plebanski's second heavenly equation for hyper-Kahler 4-manifolds. A class of examples of hyper-Hermitian metrics which depend on two arbitrary functions of two complex variables is given. The twisto…

1998-08-31abs ↗pdf ↗

I show that solutions of the SU(infinity) Toda field equation generating a fixed Einstein-Weyl space are governed by a linear equation on the Einstein-Weyl space. From this, obstructions to the existence of Toda solutions generating a given Einstein-Weyl space are found. I also give a classification of Einstein-Weyl sp…

1999-08-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Let l be a link of d components. For every finite-index lattice in Z^d there is an associated finite abelian cover of S^3 branched over l. We show that the order of the torsion subgroup of the first homology of these covers has exponential growth rate equal to the logarithmic Mahler measure of the Alexander polynomial …

2000-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We construct a Teichmueller curve uniformized by the Fuchsian triangle group (m,n,\infty) for every m<n. Our construction includes the Teichmueller curves constructed by Veech and Ward as special cases. The construction essentially relies on properties of hypergeometric differential operators. For small m, we find Bill…

2005-11-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper addresses limitations of traditional hierarchical clustering methods.

problem Traditional hierarchical clustering methods face limitations in binary trees and ultrametrics.
method Introduces the notion of a valid hierarchy and a two-step algorithm to construct a binary tree and prune it to enforce validity.
result Proposes a method to recover the finest valid hierarchy, which is not constrained to binary structures.

The two-sphere valued wave map flow on a Lorentzian domain R x Sigma, where Sigma is any flat two-torus, is studied. The Cauchy problem with initial data tangent to the moduli space of holomorphic maps Sigma -> S^2 is considered, in the limit of small initial velocity. It is proved that wave maps, in this limit, conver…

2012-07-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning improves early detection of patient deterioration in Brazilian hospitals.

problem Challenges in recognizing clinical deterioration in hospital settings.
method Application of machine learning to analyze EHR data from multiple hospitals.
result Machine learning models outperformed traditional protocols by 25 percentage points in AUC.

In recent years, a rapidly growing literature has focussed on the construction of wavelet systems to analyze functions defined on the sphere. Our purpose in this paper is to generalize these constructions to situations where sections of line bundles, rather than ordinary scalar-valued functions, are considered. In part…

2008-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The variational calculus for the Faddeev-Hopf model on a general Riemannian domain, with general Kaehler target space, is studied in the strong coupling limit. In this limit, the model has key similarities with pure Yang-Mills theory, namely conformal invariance in dimension 4 and an infinite dimensional symmetry group…

2006-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

In the first part of this paper we provide a short introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence and to holographic renormalization. We discuss how QFT correlation functions, Ward identities and anomalies are encoded in the bulk geometry. In the second part we develop a Hamiltonian approach to the method of holographic re…

2004-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Study the geometry of twistor spaces with rotating circle action.

problem Holomorphic symplectic geometry of twistor spaces.
method Interpreting Hitchin's meromorphic connection and studying critical points of moment maps.
result Residue of Hitchin's meromorphic connection serves as a moment map for the circle action.

Defines non-Abelian gerbes with connections for physical applications.

problem Tackles the definition and description of non-Abelian gerbes with connections.
method Provides a complete cocycle description for non-Abelian gerbes with connections using adjusted connections.
result Important generalization needed for physical applications, especially in supergravity.

We formulate a 4-dimensional higher gauge theoretic Chern-Simons theory. Its symmetry is encoded in a semistrict Lie 2-algebra equipped with an invariant non singular bilinear form. We analyze the gauge invariance of the theory and show that action is invariant under a higher gauge transformation up to a higher winding…

2014-06-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New clustering method recovers hidden tree structure from data.

problem Recovering hidden hierarchical structure in data.
method Maximum average dot product for merging clusters in hierarchical clustering.
result The algorithm produces a tree that accurately represents the underlying generative hierarchical structure.