arXiv research

Study lower bounds for connectivity of distance function level sets in convex sets.

The paper characterizes potential functions whose level sets are orbits in mechanical systems.

Characterizes level-set families of harmonic functions without critical points.

The paper examines how the topology of level sets changes with critical points in Morse theory.

Analyzes properties of transnormal Finsler functions on compact manifolds.

We prove that the level sets of a real C^s function of two variables near a non-degenerate critical point are of class C^[s/2] and apply this to the study of planar sections of surfaces close to the singular section by the tangent plane at hyperbolic points or elliptic points, and in particular at umbilic points. We al…

We continue the study of the variation of the $p$--modulus of a foliation initiated by the first author. We derive the formula for the second variation which allows to study $p$--stable foliations. We obtain some results concerning codimension one $p$--stable foliations. Moreover, we derive the equation for the critica…

Level set flow's singularities are type I under 2-convexity, leading to specific curvature blow-up rates.

New RL method MAC improves performance in sparse reward settings.

RLHC uses multiple critics at different levels to enhance RL performance.

Study of symmetries of sphere divisions induced by functions with isolated critical points.

Researchers compute trace formula for magnetic Laplacian on hyperbolic surfaces.

Deep Learning can significantly benefit cancer proteomics and genomics. In this study, we attempt to determine a set of critical proteins that are associated with the FLT3-ITD mutation in newly-diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia patients. A Deep Learning network consisting of autoencoders forming a hierarchical model fro…

The paper explores the structure of Reeb spaces for smooth functions on manifolds.

For strong exact magnetic fields the action functional (i.e., the length plus the linear magnetic term) is not bounded from below on the space of closed contractible curves and the lower estimates for critical levels are derived by using the principle of throwing out cycles. It is proved that for almost every energy le…

Model criticism tool evaluates text coherence and structure in generated long-form text.

LICA learns credit assignment for cooperative agents without explicit formulation.

New Morse-Bott function defined on Stiefel manifolds, revealing complex critical structures.

Single-timescale actor-critic finds globally optimal policy.

We prove that the number of critical points of a Li-Tam Green's function on a complete open Riemannian surface of finite type admits a topological upper bound, given by the first Betti number of the surface. In higher dimensions, we show that there are no topological upper bounds on the number of critical points by con…

A methodology is developed to identify, as units of study, each decrease in the value of a stock from a given maximum price level. A critical level in the amount of price declines is found to separate a segment operating under a random walk from a segment operating under a power law. This level is interpreted as a poin…

Paper derives trace formula for magnetic Laplacian at zero energy.

Smooth tori in S^4 are topologically unknotted.

Study critical metrics on manifolds, proving specific isometries.

Given a smooth closed oriented manifold $M$ of dimension $n$ embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{n+2}$ we study properties of the `solid angle' function $Φ\colon\mathbb{R}^{n+2}\setminus M\to S^1$. It turns out that a non-critical level set of $Φ$ is an explicit Seifert hypersurface for $M$.

A theorem connects integral of second-order derivatives to function rise.

Multilayer graphs are commonly used for representing different relations between entities and handling heterogeneous data processing tasks. New challenges arise in multilayer graph clustering for assigning clusters to a common multilayer node set and for combining information from each layer. This paper presents a theo…

The paper finds infinitely many magnetic geodesics on non-compact manifolds.

Study estimates personalized effects of maternal PM2.5 exposure on birth weight.

The monodromy action in the homology of level sets of Morse functions on stratified singular analytic varieties is studied. The local variation operators in both the standard and the intersection homology groups defined by the loops around the critical values of such functions are reduced to similar operators in the ho…

We prove that every continuous function on a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space X can be uniformly approximated by smooth functions with no critical points. This kind of result can be regarded as a sort of very strong approximate version of the Morse-Sard theorem. Some consequences of the main theorem are as …

The paper studies conditions for graphs connecting level sets of harmonic polynomials.

Deep learning depends on tuning layers near critical points.

We prove that every continuous mapping from a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $X$ into $\mathbb{R}^{m}$ can be uniformly approximated by $C^\infty$ smooth mappings {\em with no critical points}. This kind of result can be regarded as a sort of very strong approximate version of the Morse-Sard theorem. Some…

For a monotonically advancing front, the arrival time is the time when the front reaches a given point. We show that it is twice differentiable everywhere with uniformly bounded second derivative. It is smooth away from the critical points where the equation is degenerate. We also show that the critical set has finite …

New proofs of Cheeger-like inequalities for coexact 1-forms on hyperbolic manifolds.

We study the asymptotic behaviour of 1-parameter subgroups with respect to Hofer's metric when the underlying symplectic manifold is an open surface of infinite area. We prove that, depending on the topology of the level sets of the Hamiltonian H, the distance either is bounded or behaves asymptotically linear. Moreove…

Paper resolves ambiguity in non-convex bilevel optimization problems.

Random walk constructs Morse functions on surfaces.

This paper was motivated by work of Arnold where he explains how to count "snakes", i.e. Morse functions on the real axis with prescribed behavior at infinity. This leads immediately to a count of excellent Morse functions on the circle, where following Thom's terminology, excellent means that no two critical points li…

This paper focuses on the problem of topological equivalence of functions with isolated critical points on the boundary of a compact surface $M$ which are also isolated critical points of their restrictions to the boundary. This class of functions we denote by $Ω(M)$. Firstly, we've obtained the topological classificat…

Paper proposes PRR network for better experience reuse in reinforcement learning.

We investigate the Dolbeault operator on a pair of pants, i.e., an elementary cobordism between a circle and the disjoint union of two circles. This operator induces a canonical selfadjoint Dirac operator $D_t$ on each regular level set $C_t$ of a fixed Morse function defining this cobordism. We show that as we approac…

In this paper, we present theorems specifying the critical values for series associated with debts arranged in the order of their duration.

New study proves no strictly positive solutions to a specific Laplace equation on certain manifolds.

Empirical study on trends reversion in financial markets.

Let $X$ be a simplicial complex with a piecewise linear function $f:X\to\mathbb{R}$. The Reeb graph $Reeb(f,X)$ is the quotient of $X$, where we collapse each connected component of $f^{-1}(t)$ to a single point. Let the nodes of $Reeb(f,X)$ be all homologically critical points where any homology of the corresponding c…

The paper analyzes how SGD visits different regions of a non-convex problem's state space.