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Yau's Affine Normal Descent optimizes smooth unconstrained problems with geometrically adapted directions.

Algorithm tackles large-scale portfolio optimization with higher moments, improving computational efficiency.

We construct noncompact solutions to the affine normal flow of hypersurfaces, and show that all ancient solutions must be either ellipsoids (shrinking solitons) or paraboloids (translating solitons). We also provide a new proof of the existence of a hyperbolic affine sphere asymptotic to the boundary of a convex cone c…

New method computes affine normal directions efficiently for sparse polynomials.

We prove that the only compact convex ancient solutions of the planar affine normal flow are contracting ellipses.

We prove that the only compact, origin-symmetric, strictly convex ancient solutions of the planar $p$ centro-affine normal flows are contracting origin-centered ellipses.

We study the long time behavior of the volume preserving $p$-flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ for $1\leq p<\frac{n+1}{n-1}$. By extending Andrews' technique for the flow along the affine normal, we prove that every centrally symmetric solution to the volume preserving $p$-flow converges sequentially to the unit ball in the $…

We study the asymptotic behavior of smooth, origin-symmetric, strictly convex bodies under the centro-affine normal flows. By means of a stability version of the Blaschke-Santaló inequality, we obtain regularity of the solutions provided that initial convex bodies have almost maximum Mahler volume. We prove that suitab…

Polylab is a MATLAB toolbox for multivariate polynomial modeling.

The paper classifies singularities of line congruences in 4D space.

Extends positive mass theorem to arbitrary dimensions using a new inductive scheme.

Basic aspects of the equiaffine geometry of level sets are developed systematically. As an application there are constructed families of $2n$-dimensional nondegenerate hypersurfaces ruled by $n$-planes, having equiaffine mean curvature zero, and solving the affine normal flow. Each carries a symplectic structure with r…

Developing a singular dimension descent method for positive scalar curvature obstructions

The paper classifies singularities of plane congruences and affine distance functions.

For non-degenerate surfaces in $R^4$, a distinguished transversal bundle called affine normal plane bundle was proposed in [Nomizu-Vrancken]. Lagrangian surfaces have remarkable properties with respect to this normal bundle, like for example, the normal bundle being Lagrangian. In this paper we characterize those surfa…

Theory explains why neural nets better learn Calabi-Yau metrics.

Let $M$ be a symplectic symmetric space, and let $\imath : M \to V$ be an extrinsic symplectic symmetric immersion, i.e., $(V, Ω)$ is a symplectic vector space and $\imath$ is an injective symplectic immersion such that for each point $p \in M$, the geodesic symmetry in $p$ is compatible with the reflection in the affi…

We consider relative normalizations of ruled surfaces with non-vanishing Gaussian curvature $K$ in the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R} ^{3}$, which are characterized by the support functions $^{\left( α\right) }q=\left \vert K\right \vert ^α$ for $α\in \mathbb{R}$ (Manhart's relative normalizations). All ruled surfaces for…

We introduce a new family of affine metrics on a locally strictly convex surface $M$ in affine 4-space. Then, we define the symmetric and antisymmetric equiaffine planes associated with each metric. We show that if $M$ is immersed in a locally strictly convex hyperquadric, then the symmetric and the antisymmetric plane…

Employing the affine normal flow, we prove a stability version of the $p$-affine isoperimetric inequality for $p\geq1$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ in the class of origin-symmetric convex bodies. That is, if $K$ is an origin-symmetric convex body in $\mathbb{R}^2$ such that it has area $π$ and its $p$-affine perimeter is close en…

We apply the Cartan equivalence method to the study of real analytic second order ODEs under the local real analytic diffeomorphism of $\C^2$ which are area-preserving. This enables us to give a characterization of the second order ODEs which are equivalent to $y^{\prime\prime}=0$ under such transformations. Moreover w…

The paper proves conditions for the existence of small Urysohn width hypersurfaces in manifolds with positive scalar curvature.

In this paper we classify convex compact ancient solutions to the affine curve shortening flow: namely, any convex compact ancient solution to the affine curve shortening flow must be a shrinking ellipse. The method combines a rescaling argument inspired by \cite{Wang}, affine invariance of the equation and monotonicit…

In this paper we discuss some affine properties of convex equal-area polygons, which are convex polygons such that all triangles formed by three consecutive vertices have the same area. Besides being able to approximate closed convex smooth curves almost uniformly with respect to affine length, convex equal-area polygo…

The envelope of straight lines affine normal to a plane curve C is its affine evolute; the envelope of the affine lines tangent to C is the original curve, together with the entire affine tangent line at each inflexion of C. In this paper, we consider plane curves without inflexions. We use some techniques of singulari…

We prove the following comparison theorem for metrics with nonnegative scalar curvature, also known as the dihedral rigidity conjecture by Gromov: for $n\le 7$, if an $n$-dimensional prism has nonnegative scalar curvature and weakly mean convex faces, then its dihedral angle cannot be everywhere not larger than its Euc…

Integrates ESG data into Black-Litterman for portfolio optimization.

The aim of this paper is to investigate the differential geometry of immersed surfaces in three-dimensional normed spaces from the viewpoint of affine differential geometry. We endow the surface with a useful Riemannian metric which is closely related to normal curvature, and from this we re-calculate the Minkowski Gau…

Estimates symplectic Calabi-Yau equation using Cheng-Yau method.

Constructs complete Calabi-Yau metrics from smoothed Calabi-Yau intersections.

New proofs of Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau theorem using geodesic rays.

New examples of Calabi-Yau 3-folds with unique properties.

In [Centro-affine invariants for smooth convex bodies, Int. Math. Res. Notices. doi: 10.1093/imrn/rnr110, 2011] Stancu introduced a family of centro-affine normal flows, $p$-flow, for $1\leq p<\infty.$ Here we investigate the asymptotic behavior of the planar $p$-flow for $p=\infty$ in the class of smooth, origin-symme…

Uniform estimates for Calabi-Yau degenerations proved.

New machine learning approach finds Kähler metrics through Grassmannian learning.

Compactifies Calabi-Yau to weak Fano manifolds.

The study shows how to foliate convex hypersurfaces in affine space with constant curvature.

Study classifies Calabi-Yau threefolds with non-Gorenstein involutions.

Normalizing flows are shown to be equivalent to Bayesian networks, revealing new insights.

In a recent paper, Darvas-Rubinstein proved a convergence result for the Kahler-Ricci iteration, which is a sequence of recursively defined complex Monge-Ampere equations. We introduce the Monge-Ampere iteration to be an analogous, but more general, sequence of recursively defined real Monge-Ampere second boundary valu…

Constructs special Lagrangian submanifolds in Calabi-Yau 3-folds.

Polyhomogeneous expansions for Calabi-Yau metrics near singularities.

New Calabi-Yau metrics constructed with detailed geometry at infinity.

We study Calabi-Yau 3-folds M_0 with a conical singularity x modelled on a Calabi-Yau cone V. We construct desingularizations of M_0, obtaining a 1-parameter family of compact, nonsingular Calabi-Yau 3-folds which has M_0 as the limit. The way we do is to choose an Asymptotically Conical Calabi-Yau 3-fold Y modelled on…

In this paper, we study the analogue of the Shafarevich conjecture for polarized Calabi-Yau varieties. We use variations of Hodge structures and Higgs bundles to establish a criterion for the {\it rigidity} of families. We then apply the criterion to obtain that some important and typical families of Calabi-Yau varieti…

Solves Calabi-Yau equation on complex manifolds with non-positive astheno-Ricci curvature.

In this paper, we construct simply connected symplectic Calabi-Yau 6-manifolds by applying Gompf's symplectic fiber sum operation along $T^4$. Using our construction, we also produce symplectic non-Kähler Calabi-Yau 6-manifolds with fundamental group $\Z$. In this paper, we also produce the first examples of simply con…

Reviewed and extended Wang-Yau quasi-local mass definitions.