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48 results for affine function classes

Estimates fat-shattering dimension of aggregated function classes.

problem Understanding the complexity of aggregated function classes.
method Analyzes fat-shattering dimension of kk-fold aggregations of real-valued function classes.
result Provides upper and lower bounds on fat-shattering dimension for linear and affine function classes.

We introduce the class of affine forward variance (AFV) models of which both the conventional Heston model and the rough Heston model are special cases. We show that AFV models can be characterized by the affine form of their cumulant generating function, which can be obtained as solution of a convolution Riccati equat…

2018-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

This thesis is devoted to the study of affine processes and their applications in financial mathematics. In the first part we consider the theory of time-inhomogeneous affine processes on general state spaces. We present a concise setup for time-inhomogeneous Markov processes. For stochastically continuous affine proce…

2015-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper classifies affine minimal translation surfaces and finds their properties.

problem Classifying and understanding affine minimal translation surfaces.
method Using Weierstrass-Enneper formula and hodographic coordinate system.
result Classification and properties of affine minimal translation surfaces.

Inspired by the Weierstrass representation of smooth affine minimal surfaces with indefinite metric, we propose a constructive process producing a large class of discrete surfaces that we call discrete affine minimal surfaces. We show that they are critical points of an affine area functional defined on the space of qu…

2008-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider non-degenerate centro-affine hypersurface immersions in R^n whose cubic form is parallel with respect to the Levi-Civita connection of the affine metric. There exists a bijective correspondence between homothetic families of proper affine hyperspheres with center in the origin and with parallel cubic form, …

2012-08-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Affine jump-diffusions constitute a large class of continuous-time stochastic models that are particularly popular in finance and economics due to their analytical tractability. Methods for parameter estimation for such processes require ergodicity in order establish consistency and asymptotic normality of the associat…

2018-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper discusses properties of a Doubly Stochastic Poisson Process (DSPP) where the intensity process belongs to a class of affine diffusions. For any intensity process from this class we derive an analytical expression for probability distribution functions of the corresponding DSPP. A specification of our results…

2011-09-13abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies a new class of affine maximal surfaces with singularities.

problem Understanding the properties of affine maximal surfaces with singularities.
method Defining a new subclass of affine maximal surfaces and applying Euclidean minimal surface theory.
result Affine maxfaces satisfy an Osserman-type inequality and do not contain non-trivial improper affine fronts.

Study pricing options on forward contracts using infinite-dimensional affine models.

problem Pricing European-style options on forward contracts in complex stochastic volatility models.
method Model forward price curves using stochastic partial differential equations modulated by stochastic volatility processes. Analyze two classes of affine stochastic volatility models: Gaussian and pure-jump. Derive conditions for existence of exponential moments and develop semi-closed pricing formulas.
result Developed semi-closed Fourier-based pricing formulas for vanilla call and put options in infinite-dimensional affine models.

CF-INNs can approximate any invertible function, resolving a long-standing problem.

problem Whether CF-INNs can approximate any invertible function.
method Demonstrated CF-INNs are universal approximators for invertible functions by showing a convenient criterion.
result CF-INNs are universal approximators for invertible functions.

The class of affine LIBOR models is appealing since it satisfies three central requirements of interest rate modeling. It is arbitrage-free, interest rates are nonnegative and caplet and swaption prices can be calculated analytically. In order to guarantee nonnegative interest rates affine LIBOR models are driven by no…

2015-03-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The study of which mapping class group elements can be realized as affine automorphisms of dilation surfaces.

problem Which elements of the mapping class group can be realized as affine automorphisms of dilation surfaces?
method Investigation into the affine automorphism groups of dilation surfaces, including the construction of dilation surfaces from multicurves.
result Only certain types of mapping class group elements can arise as affine automorphisms of dilation surfaces.

This paper extends stock trading results to include stop-loss orders.

problem Generalizing stock trading results with stop-loss orders.
method Geometric Brownian motion model, affine feedback controller, closed-form expression for cumulative distribution function.
result Affine feedback controller with stop-loss order generalizes results without stop-loss orders.

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

problem Classifying singularities of plane congruences and affine distance functions.
method Classification through 2-parameter plane congruences in \(\mathbb{R^4}\) and affine normal plane congruences.
result Generic singularities of plane congruences and affine distance functions are classified.

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 ↗

We introduce a class of maps from an affine flat into a Riemannian manifold that solve an elliptic system defined by the natural second order elliptic operator of the affine structure and the nonlinear Riemann geometry of the target. These maps are called affine harmonic. We show an existence result for affine harmonic…

2009-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

New SDEs from affine and polynomial perspectives for path-dependent processes.

problem Characterizing path-dependent stochastic processes.
method Affine and polynomial processes, signature SDEs, Fourier-Laplace transform, Riccati and linear ODEs.
result Explicit formulas for the Fourier-Laplace transform and expected values of entire functions of signature processes.

The paper develops inequalities for log-concave functions and related surface areas.

problem Understanding log-concave functions and their inequalities.
method Establishing new inequalities through f-divergences and functional affine surface areas.
result New inequalities on functional affine surface area and bounds for Kullback-Leibler divergence.

A Sim(n-1,1) affine manifold is an affine manifold whose linear holonomy is contained in the similarity lorentzian group but not in the lorentzian group. The class of similarity lorentzian affine manifolds is a small part in the nice class of conformally lorentzian flat manifolds. In this paper we show that a compact S…

2002-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers describe Casimir functions for 3- and 4-step nilpotent Lie groups.

problem Understanding Casimir functions for free nilpotent Lie groups of steps 3 and 4.
method Construction of Casimir functions for free nilpotent Lie groups of steps 3 and 4.
result For 3-step groups, coadjoint orbits are fully described as affine subspaces or direct products of quadrics.

New proof shows affine manifolds with parallel volume are Riemannian-flat.

problem Characterize compact affine manifolds with parallel volume.
method Construct a representative metric with Levi-Civita connection, using Hessian of volume-normalized distance functions.
result Affine manifolds with parallel volume are Riemannian-flat.

The paper classifies knots in real projective 3-space and introduces new geometric tools.

problem Classifying knots in real projective 3-space and understanding their properties.
method Structural theorem, space bending surgery, genus definition, non-cancellation theorem.
result The genus detects knottedness and classifies knots in real projective 3-space.

We consider non-degenerate graph immersions into affine space An+1\mathbb A^{n+1} whose cubic form is parallel with respect to the Levi-Civita connection of the affine metric. There exists a correspondence between such graph immersions and pairs (J,γ)(J,γ), where JJ is an nn-dimensional real Jordan algebra and γγ is a no…

2013-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We state and prove a simple Theorem that allows one to generate invariant quantities in Metric-Affine Geometry, under a given transformation of the affine connection. We start by a general functional of the metric and the connection and consider transformations of the affine connection possessing a certain symmetry. We…

2019-11-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Sharp Lp affine isoperimetric inequalities are established for the entire class of Lp projection bodies and the entire class of Lp centroid bodies. These new inequalities strengthen the Lp Petty projection and the Lp Busemann--Petty centroid inequality.

2008-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We study affine Jacobi structures on an affine bundle π:AMπ:A\to M, i.e. Jacobi brackets that close on affine functions. We prove that there is a one-to-one correspondence between affine Jacobi structures on AA and Lie algebroid structures on the vector bundle A+=pMAff(Ap,R)A^+=\bigcup_{p\in M}Aff(A_p,\R) of affine functionals. Som…

2002-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Employing a centro-affine flow on smooth convex bodies, we generate new centro-affine differential invariants. One class of the newly defined invariants is the object of a sharp isoperimetric inequality, while other new inequalities on known centro-affine invariants are obtained as a byproduct of the flow's study. Furt…

2010-11-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop the foundations of the deformation theory of compact complete affine space forms and affine crystallographic groups. Using methods from the theory of linear algebraic groups we show that these deformation spaces inherit an algebraic structure from the space of crystallographic homomorphisms. We also study th…

2008-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that every finite-dimensional Alexandrov space X with curvature bounded from below embeds canonically into a product of an Alexandrov space with the same curvature bound and a Euclidean space such that each affine function on X comes from an affine function on the Euclidean space.

2016-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings on neural network identifiability using affine symmetries.

problem Identifying all neural networks that produce a given function.
method Examined affine symmetries of nonlinearities and their impact on neural network identifiability.
result Symmetries can be used to find a rich set of networks giving rise to the same function, except for a special case.

Geodesic connectedness proved for statistical manifolds with divisible cubic forms.

problem Geodesic connectedness of affine connections on statistical manifolds with divisible cubic forms.
method Analogy with Hopf-Rinow theorem in Riemannian geometry, establishing geodesic completeness.
result Geodesic connectedness established for statistical manifolds with divisible cubic forms.

Paper generalizes Bloch-Ros principle to various surface classes.

problem Understanding the relationship between normal family theory, value distribution theory, and surface theory.
method Formulation and generalization of Bloch-Ros principle to different surface classes.
result Effective criterion for determining Gaussian curvature estimates for various surface classes.

For a topological space XX we study continuous maps f:XRmf : X\to \mathbb R^m such that images of every pairwise distinct kk points are affinely (linearly) independent. Such maps are called affinely (linearly) kk-regular embeddings. We investigate the cohomology obstructions to existence of regular embeddings and give …

2010-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗