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48 results for critical problems

Solves Dirichlet problem for Lagrangian phase equation with critical and supercritical phase.

problem Solving Dirichlet problem for Lagrangian phase equation with critical and supercritical phase.
method Uses interior C2C^2 estimate.
result Result is sharp, showing existence of singular solutions in subcritical phase.

We create a flat end foliation by critical spheres solving a Laplace-Beltrami problem.

problem Foliation of an asymptotically flat end by critical hypersurfaces.
method Constructing hypersurfaces as critical points of a functional, solving an over-determined boundary value problem.
result Solutions to the Laplace-Beltrami operator over a foliation of critical spheres.

The study classifies solutions to a specific eigenvalue problem and identifies the critical catenoid.

problem Eigenvalue problem on the sphere with boundary conditions.
method Classifying positive solutions as rotationally symmetric and analyzing boundary conditions.
result Characterization of the critical catenoid as the only embedded free boundary minimal annulus.

Study on eigenfunctions on sphere configurations, proving non-existence and construction of critical eigensections.

problem Existence and rigidity of critical Z2 eigenvalues on sphere configurations.
method Algebraic identities and finite group representation theory.
result Construction of infinitely many configurations admitting critical eigensections and proof of deformation rigidity of Taubes-Wu tetrahedral eigensections.

In 1974, Gehring posed the problem of minimizing the length of two linked curves separated by unit distance. This constraint can be viewed as a measure of thickness for links, and the ratio of length over thickness as the ropelength. In this paper we refine Gehring's problem to deal with links in a fixed link-homotopy …

2004-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New actor-critic method reduces sample complexity for reinforcement learning.

problem Improving sample complexity for actor-critic algorithms in reinforcement learning.
method Integrates Monte Carlo rollouts into policy search steps for better control over bias.
result Established sample complexity for actor-critic algorithms with policy gradient.

Learning the distribution of natural images is one of the hardest and most important problems in machine learning. The problem remains open, because the enormous complexity of the structures in natural images spans all length scales. We break down the complexity of the problem and show that the hierarchy of structures …

2015-10-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves mass-capacity inequalities for critical area-normalized capacitors, improving Schwarzschild metric uniqueness.

problem Proving mass-capacity inequalities for critical area-normalized capacitors.
method Analyzes asymptotically flat manifolds with boundary capacity potential satisfying an overdetermined problem.
result Improves Schwarzschild metric uniqueness and results for spin asymptotically flat spacetimes.

Paper finds infinitely many solutions changing sign for critical fractional equations.

problem Critical fractional equations with sign-changing solutions.
method Reduction to equivalent problem on sphere, blow-up arguments, Pohozaev's identity, regularity results, symmetries of sphere.
result Unbounded sequence of sign-changing solutions for critical problems.

Paper proves gradient estimates for Lagrangian mean curvature equation.

problem Proving gradient estimates for Lagrangian mean curvature equation.
method Interior gradient estimates for critical and supercritical Lagrangian mean curvature equation.
result Solves Dirichlet boundary value problem for critical and supercritical Lagrangian mean curvature equation.

Study on CR curves in 3-sphere, focusing on critical curves integration and existence.

problem Addressing the integration and existence of critical curves in the CR 3-sphere.
method Provided a procedure for the explicit integration of general critical curves and characterized closed curves.
result Existence of infinite countably many closed critical curves.

The problem of prescribing conformally the scalar curvature of a closed Riemannian manifold as a given Morse function reduces to solving an elliptic partial differential equation with critical Sobolev exponent. Two ways of attacking this problem consist in subcritical approximations or negative pseudo gradient flows. W…

2019-01-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm solves mean-field control problems using actor-critic learning with moment neural networks.

problem Solving mean-field control problems in continuous time reinforcement learning.
method Gradient-based policy and value function learning with moment neural networks on the Wasserstein space.
result Effective solution for diverse mean-field control problems, including multi-dimensional and nonlinear settings.

Study on p-Laplacian problems with critical exponent, focusing on existence of solutions.

problem Existence of least energy solutions for nonlinear p-Laplacian problems with critical exponent.
method Proving existence of solutions through critical point theory and variational methods.
result Significant difference in existence results between p-Laplacian and Laplacian cases.

Actor-critic methods can achieve incredible performance on difficult reinforcement learning problems, but they are also prone to instability. This is partly due to the interaction between the actor and critic during learning, e.g., an inaccurate step taken by one of them might adversely affect the other and destabilize…

2018-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Actor-critic methods solve reinforcement learning problems by updating a parameterized policy known as an actor in a direction that increases an estimate of the expected return known as a critic. However, existing actor-critic methods only use values or gradients of the critic to update the policy parameter. In this pa…

2017-05-22abs ↗pdf ↗

The critical catenoid is uniquely determined by certain symmetries of its boundary.

problem Uniqueness of free boundary minimal annuli in a half-ball.
method Symmetry analysis and boundary conditions.
result An embedded free boundary minimal annulus with specific symmetries is congruent to the critical catenoid.

The paper studies the smoothness of critical points of variational integrals on Hessian spaces.

problem The study focuses on the regularity of critical points of variational integrals defined on Hessian spaces.
method The approach involves solving a fourth order nonlinear equation and analyzing the Hessian of the critical points.
result Smooth critical points with bounded Hessian are shown to be smooth provided their Hessian has small BMO.

Neural networks solve high-dimensional HJB PDEs with asymptotic guarantees.

problem Solving high-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs in stochastic control theory.
method Actor-critic machine learning algorithm with a structured critic and biased gradient actor.
result The training dynamics converge to an ODE, ensuring solutions to the original problem.

The exponential map fails to be injective near critical points in sub-Riemannian geometry.

problem Injectivity failure of the exponential map at critical points in sub-Riemannian geometry.
method Analysis of the Hilbert invariant integral of the variational problem associated with the sub-Riemannian structure.
result Characterization of conjugate points in terms of metric structure.

Critical points of scale-invariant curvature energies in 4D are analytic.

problem Analyzing critical points of curvature energies in 4D manifolds.
method Applying Noether's theorem to identify conservation laws and lower order elliptic system of PDEs, then using integrability by compensation and interpolation theory.
result Critical points of scale-invariant curvature energies in 4D are analytic.

We study the problem of prescribing the Paneitz curvature on higher dimensional spheres. Particular attention is paid to the blow-up points, i.e. the critical points at infinity of the corresponding variational problem. Using topological tools and a careful analysis of the gradient flow lines in the neighborhood of suc…

2004-12-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper discusses quantifying realism in generated images.

problem Designing functions to reliably distinguish realistic data from unrealistic data.
method Drawing on insights from algorithmic information theory, the paper introduces the notion of a universal critic.
result A good generative model alone is insufficient to solve the problem of realism quantification.

New actor-critic algorithm achieves optimal sample efficiency in RL.

problem Achieving εε-optimal policies with minimal samples in RL.
method Integrates optimism, off-policy critic estimation, and rare-switching policy resets.
result Sample complexity of O(dH5logA/ε2+dH4logF/ε2)O(dH^5 \log|\mathcal{A}|/ε^2 + d H^4 \log|\mathcal{F}|/ ε^2) trajectories.

The paper finds sign-changing solutions for a specific type of elliptic equation.

problem Existence of sign-changing solutions for a Yamabe type equation.
method Investigates a critical elliptic equation with a Yamabe type operator on a compact manifold with boundary.
result Existence of sign-changing solutions assured under certain geometric conditions.

New existence results for curvature problem on balls with specific conditions.

problem Existence of solutions for a prescribed mean curvature problem on a ball.
method Combining critical points at infinity approach with Morse theory.
result New existence results for higher dimensional case n5n\geq 5 under pinching conditions.

Paper classifies critical points in half-space with new distance function.

problem Classifying critical points in half-space with capillary CMC hypersurfaces.
method New shifted distance function for capillary problem in half-space.
result Proves Alexandrov-type theorem for singular capillary CMC hypersurfaces.

We consider a variational problem for submanifolds Q \subset M with nonempty boundary \partialQ = K. We propose the definition that the boundary K of any critical point Q have constant mean curvature, which seems to be a new perspective when dim Q \textless{} dim M . We then construct small nearly-spherical solutio…

2015-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗