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48 results for degenerate densities

The paper studies knot densities under various constraints and degenerations.

problem Understanding knot densities under different constraints and their degenerations.
method Introduces and analyzes unconstrained and ropelength-windowed pp-densities of knot types.
result The degenerations in the unconstrained theory and the introduction of ropelength-windowed densities.

Solves a general class of free boundary Monge-Ampère equations.

problem Optimal transport with degenerate densities and geometric problems.
method Analyzes a specific class of Monge-Ampère equations and their applications.
result Solves the equations for a general class, including applications to optimal transport and geometric problems.

Study on stable Hamiltonian topology finds non-density of certain structures.

problem Non-density of stable hypersurfaces and Hamiltonian structures.
method Proving non-density results for stable hypersurfaces and Hamiltonian structures in various dimensions.
result Non-density of stable hypersurfaces and Hamiltonian structures in specific isotopy and homotopy classes.

Degenerations of rank-two bundles on threefolds lead to isolated point singularities, with rigidity and bubbling properties.

problem Degenerations of rank-two vector bundles on complex threefolds to a rank-two torsion-free sheaf with an isolated point singularity.
method Proving a rigidity identity and using it to obtain smoothability obstructions and construct local smoothings.
result Smoothability obstructions and local smoothings are obtained, with a rigidity identity linking algebraic bubbling multiplicity and Ext-length.

FSPA bypasses eigenvalue estimation for quantum PCA, achieving optimal complexity and robustness.

problem Quantum PCA eigenvalue estimation is computationally expensive and prone to errors.
method Filtered Spectral Projection Algorithm (FSPA) that projects onto the dominant spectral subspace directly.
result FSPA achieves optimal complexity and robustness, outperforming classical methods.

A new method for learning manifolds efficiently using canonical basis functions.

problem Learning manifolds in high-dimensional data with efficient and distinct latent dimensions.
method Proposes a novel optimization objective to enforce a transformation matrix with a few prominent and non-degenerate basis functions.
result Demonstrates that minimizing the off-diagonal manifold metric elements 1\ell_1-norm results in a more efficient latent space representation.

Proposes a method to estimate time-dependent probability density functions using binary classifiers.

problem Estimating time-dependent probability density functions of stochastic processes.
method Trains a time-dependent binary classifier to discriminate between realizations of a stochastic process at two nearby time instants.
result Explicitly models and accurately reconstructs complex time-dependent, multi-modal, and near-degenerate densities.

The paper tackles manifold overfitting in deep generative models.

problem Manifold overfitting occurs when generative models learn the manifold itself instead of the distribution on it.
method The authors propose a two-step procedure: dimensionality reduction followed by maximum-likelihood density estimation.
result The two-step procedure avoids manifold overfitting and enables density estimation on learned manifolds.

We investigate non-degenerate Lagrangians of the form f(ux,uy,ut)dxdydt \int f(u_x, u_y, u_t) dx dy dt such that the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equations (fux)x+(fuy)y+(fut)t=0 (f_{u_x})_x+ (f_{u_y})_y+ (f_{u_t})_t=0 are integrable by the method of hydrodynamic reductions. We demonstrate that the integrability conditions, which constitute an invol…

2007-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The distribution of money is analysed in connection with the Boltzmann distribution of energy in the degenerate states of molecules. Plots of the population density of income distribution for various countries are well reproduced by a Gamma function, confirming the validity of the statistical distribution at equilibriu…

2003-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The state price density of a basket, even under uncorrelated Black-Scholes dynamics, does not allow for a closed from density. (This may be rephrased as statement on the sum of lognormals and is especially annoying for such are used most frequently in Financial and Actuarial Mathematics.) In this note we discuss short …

2013-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficiently sparsifies simplicial complexes using local densities of states.

problem Prohibitive computational requirements for dense simplicial complexes.
method Probabilistic sparsification using local densities of states and kernel-ignoring decomposition.
result Approximates the spectrum of the original SC with a sparser surrogate SC.

On a Riemannian or a semi-Riemannian manifold, the metric determines invariants like the Levi-Civita connection and the Riemann curvature. If the metric becomes degenerate (as in singular semi-Riemannian geometry), these constructions no longer work, because they are based on the inverse of the metric, and on related o…

2011-05-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Method identifies latent variables from high-dimensional data with piecewise affine mixing.

problem Identifying latent variables from high-dimensional observations with dependencies and piecewise affine transformations.
method Proposes a two-stage method with sparsity and Gaussianity regularization.
result Effectively recovers ground-truth latent variables from synthetic and image data.

Method reconstructs neuron models from spike times efficiently.

problem Reconstructing neuron models from spike times in degenerate populations.
method Combining deep learning with DICs to map spike times to DIC densities and generate degenerate CBM populations.
result Fast and scalable reconstruction of degenerate populations from spike recordings.

Study on regularity of optimal transport maps on convex domains with quadratic cost.

problem Regularity of optimal transport maps between convex domains with quadratic cost.
method Analysis of CαC^α-densities and C1,αC^{1, α} boundary conditions, monotonicity formula for optimal transport maps.
result Proves C1,1εC^{1, 1-\varepsilon}-regularity for nondegenerate CαC^α-densities and C2,αC^{2, α}-regularity for C1,αC^{1, α} boundary.

The integral of the energy density function m\mathfrak m of a closed Robertson-Walker (RW) spacetime with source a perfect fluid and cosmological constant ΛΛ gives rise to an action functional on the space of scale functions of RW spacetime metrics. This paper studies closed RW spacetimes which are critical for this …

2019-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Given an odd vector field QQ on a supermanifold MM and a QQ-invariant density μμ on MM, under certain compactness conditions on QQ, the value of the integral Mμ\int_{M}μ is determined by the value of μμ on any neighborhood of the vanishing locus NN of QQ. We present a formula for the integral in the case where…

2017-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Boosting variational inference (BVI) approximates an intractable probability density by iteratively building up a mixture of simple component distributions one at a time, using techniques from sparse convex optimization to provide both computational scalability and approximation error guarantees. But the guarantees hav…

2019-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on convergence of SDEs using entropy methods.

problem Analyzing convergence of stochastic differential equations.
method Applied Lyapunov method to Fokker-Planck equation with weighted relative Fisher information.
result Exponential convergence of probability density function to invariant distribution in L1L_1 distance.

Paper estimates GMMs with unknown covariances using sparse regularization.

problem Estimating GMMs with unknown diagonal covariances from samples.
method Employed Beurling-LASSO (BLASSO) for sparse estimation of component means, covariances, and weights.
result Established non-asymptotic recovery guarantees with nearly parametric convergence rates.

Defines and studies solutions to complex equations on Hermitian manifolds.

problem Solving complex equations on Hermitian manifolds.
method Extending recent theories, defines and studies pluripotential solutions to degenerate parabolic complex Monge-Ampère equations.
result Establishes existence and uniqueness of weak Chern-Ricci flow on complex compact varieties with log terminal singularities.

We prove that the degenerate part of the distributive homology of a multispindle is determined by the normalized homology. In particular, when the multispindle is a quandle QQ, the degenerate homology of QQ is completely determined by the quandle homology of QQ. For this case (and generally for two term homology of …

2014-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

An n-dimensional submanifold X of a projective space P^N (C) is called tangentially degenerate if the rank of its Gauss mapping γ: X ---> G (n, N) satisfies 0 < rank γ< n. The authors systematically study the geometry of tangentially degenerate submanifolds of a projective space PN(C)P^N (\mathbf{C}). By means of the foca…

2000-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

A method for optimal Bayesian filtering using progressive particle flow and optimal transport maps.

problem Optimizing Bayesian filtering with deterministic particles to avoid degeneration.
method Progressive flow of particles through a sequence of sub-steps, each using an optimal transport map to replace non-equally weighted particles with equally weighted ones.
result The method avoids particle degeneration and simplifies the filtering process by not requiring inversions or monotonicity constraints.

Study degenerate Bianchi transformations for pseudo-spherical submanifolds in 5D space.

problem Characterize three-dimensional pseudo-spherical submanifolds with degenerate Bianchi transformations.
method Complete description through holonomically degenerate Bianchi transformations.
result Obtained a complete description of degenerate pseudo-spherical submanifolds.

Paper solves degenerated circle pattern metric problem in spherical geometry.

problem Existence and rigidity of (degenerated) circle pattern metrics with prescribed total geodesic curvatures.
method Defined prescribed combinatorial Ricci flows and studied their convergence.
result First degenerated result for total geodesic curvatures in spherical background geometry.

Paper studies degenerated circle packings in hyperbolic geometry and finds conditions for their existence.

problem Whether a prescribed total geodesic curvature can be realized by a degenerated circle packing.
method Introduced combinatorial Ricci flow to find the desired degenerated circle packed surface, analogous to Chow-Luo and Takatsu methods.
result Fully characterized sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of degenerated circle packings and showed their uniqueness.

In this paper we study lightlike surfaces of Minkowski 3- space such that they have degenerate or non-degenerate planar normal sections. We first show that every lightlike surface of Minkowski 33- space has degenerate planar normal sections. Then we study lightlike surfaces with non-degenerate planar normal sections a…

2013-01-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper studies degenerations of rational maps and their limits as geometrically finite rational maps.

problem Understanding the limits of quasi post-critically finite degenerations of rational maps.
method Constructing limits as geometrically finite rational maps on a tree of Riemann spheres, proving boundedness, and giving convergence criteria.
result Progress towards Thurston's compactness theorem and double limit theorem in complex dynamics.

Stability of Morse index for harmonic maps on degenerating surfaces analyzed.

problem Analyzing stability of Morse index for harmonic maps on degenerating Riemann surfaces.
method Analysis of second variation of energy, identification of conditions for upper semicontinuity, explicit contribution of geodesics.
result Sharper control of spectrum of Jacobi operator, explicit contribution of geodesic segments to Morse index.