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48 results for functional aspects

Global existence and geometry of constant mass aspect function foliation in perturbed Schwarzschild spacetime studied.

problem Null Penrose inequality on a null hypersurface.
method Global existence of constant mass aspect function foliation on a nearly spherically symmetric incoming null hypersurface in a vacuum perturbed Schwarzschild spacetime.
result Geometry of the constant mass aspect function foliation compared to the spherically symmetric foliation in the Schwarzschild spacetime.

Unified definition of mass aspect function for weakly regular hyperbolic manifolds.

problem Ambiguity in mass definition for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds.
method Introduced an ADM-style mass aspect function for broad asymptotics and low regularity.
result Unified mass aspect function exhibits favorable covariance properties.

This thesis covers different aspects of the p-Laplace operators on Riemannian manifolds. Chapter 2. Potential theoretic aspects: the Khasmkinskii condition. Chapter 3: sharp eigenvalue estimates with Ricci curvature lower bounds. Chapter 4: Critical sets of (2-)harmonic functions.

2012-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We discuss classical gravitational aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence, with the aim of obtaining a rigorous (mathematical) understanding of the semi-classical limit of the gravitational partition function. The paper surveys recent progress in the area, together with a selection of new results and open problems.

2004-03-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Formulae for mass and angular momentum transformations under BMS transformations derived from curvature and metric.

problem Deriving transformation formulae for mass and angular momentum under BMS transformations.
method Two approaches: from curvature tensor and metric coefficients.
result Exact expressions for Drey-Streubel angular momentum of a general section.

In the context of synthetic differential geometry, we study the Laplace operator an a Riemannian manifold. The main new aspect is a neighbourhood of the diagonal, smaller than the second neighbourhood usually required as support for second order differential operators. The new neighbourhood has the property that a func…

2000-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper explores geometric and analytic aspects of Lojasiewicz inequalities on vector bundles.

problem Understanding growth and stability conditions for real-analytic functions over vector bundles.
method Outline theory of functionals and variational problems over vector bundles, explore applications to real-analytic functionals.
result Describes the energy functional on $S^{n-1$ as a functional over a vector bundle.

We study the geometry and partial differential equations arising from the consideration of Frobenius determinants, also called-group-determinants. This leads us to address some aspects of twistor theory as well as some extensions of Bessel functions.

2018-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Interpretability has emerged as a crucial aspect of building trust in machine learning systems, aimed at providing insights into the working of complex neural networks that are otherwise opaque to a user. There are a plethora of existing solutions addressing various aspects of interpretability ranging from identifying …

2017-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Ranking is a key aspect of many applications, such as information retrieval, question answering, ad placement and recommender systems. Learning to rank has the goal of estimating a ranking model automatically from training data. In practical settings, the task often reduces to estimating a rank functional of an object …

2014-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Motivated by the supersymmetric extension of Liouville theory in the recent physics literature, we couple the standard Liouville functional with a spinor field term. The resulting functional is conformally invariant. We study geometric and analytic aspects of the resulting Euler-Lagrange equations, culminating in a blo…

2005-11-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method for ranking items across multiple aspects based on user feedback.

problem No principled solution exists for generating multiple item rankings over different aspects.
method Developed a directional multi-aspect ranking criterion using probabilistic multivariate tensor factorization.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of the proposed method through comprehensive experiments on real datasets.

Motivated from the action functional for bosonic strings with extrinsic curvature term we introduce an action functional for maps between Riemannian manifolds that interpolates between the actions for harmonic and biharmonic maps. Critical points of this functional will be called interpolating sesqui-harmonic maps. In …

2018-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a functional that couples the nonlinear sigma model with a spinor field: $L=\int_M[|dφ|^2+(ψ,\Dψ)]$. In two dimensions, it is conformally invariant. The critical points of this functional are called Dirac-harmonic maps. We study some geometric and analytic aspects of such maps, in particular a removable si…

2004-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper shows how to embed Möbius bands with many twists and small aspect ratios.

problem Finding the smallest aspect ratio for Möbius bands with many twists.
method Constructs a folded paper ribbon knot to bound the aspect ratio.
result Paper Möbius bands and annuli with any number of half-twists can be embedded with aspect ratio less than 8.

In this paper we determine a number of meaningful compositions of higher order of a set of functions, which is considered in Malesevic (1998), in implicit and explicit form. Results which are obtained are applied to the vector analysis in order to determine the number of meaningful differential operations of higher ord…

2004-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

A multi-stage reinforcement learning method for object detection.

problem Efficiently detecting objects within images with high accuracy.
method Hierarchical tree-like region candidates, zoom and refinement stages, aspect ratio modification, multiple reward metrics.
result The multi-stage approach leads to more correct detections compared to single-stage methods.

Defines a Gromov-Hausdorff-like distance for Riemannian manifolds.

problem Defining a distance function for isometric classes of compact Riemannian manifolds.
method Using the Hausdorff distance function in the tangent bundle with the Sasaki metric.
result The convergence of a sequence of compact Riemannian manifolds coincides with the R. S. Hamilton convergence.

This paper is focused on geometric aspects of two particular types of finite-variable reductions in the dispersionless Toda hierarchy. The reductions are formulated in terms of "Landau-Ginzburg potentials" that play the role of reduced Lax functions. One of them is a generalization of Dubrovin and Zhang's trigonometric…

2012-06-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The Seiberg-Witten equations that have recently found important applications for four-dimensional geometry are the Euler-Lagrange equations for a functional involving a connection AA on a line bundle LL and a section φφ of another bundle W+W^+ constructed from LL and a spinor bundle on a given four-dimensional Riem…

1995-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

This work defines a new function space for multi-layer neural networks.

problem Characterizing the function space of multi-layer neural networks.
method Defining a neural Hilbert ladder (NHL) as an infinite union of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs).
result Established theoretical properties of the new function space, including generalization guarantees and dynamics of random fields.

It has been postulated that a good representation is one that disentangles the underlying explanatory factors of variation. However, it remains an open question what kind of training framework could potentially achieve that. Whereas most previous work focuses on the static setting (e.g., with images), we postulate that…

2017-08-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Hybrid Deep Embedding for aspect-level explanations in recommendations.

problem Challenges in personalization, dynamic explanations, and aspect-level granularity in recommendation systems.
method Proposes Hybrid Deep Embedding (HDE) to learn dynamic embeddings for user and item preferences, and aspect-level quality vectors.
result Demonstrates improved recommending performance and dynamic aspect-level explanations.

The massless supermultiplet of eleven-dimensional supergravity can be generated from the decomposition of certain representation of the exceptional Lie group F4 into those of its maximal compact subgroup Spin(9). In an earlier paper, a dynamical Kaluza-Klein origin of this observation is proposed with internal space th…

2009-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles ASC with coarse-to-fine task transfer for AT-level sentiment classification.

problem Small AT-level corpora and limited data for fine-grained AT task.
method Coarse-to-fine task transfer using MGAN with Coarse2Fine attention and contrastive feature alignment.
result MGAN improves ASC performance on AT-level sentiment classification.

New algorithms recover differential equations from short bursts of data.

problem Locally recover unknown governing differential equations from measurement data.
method Approximate governing equations using standard basis functions and short bursts of trajectory data.
result Effective numerical algorithms recover accurate governing equations from short bursts of data.

New equivalences found between subsampling and ridge regularization methods.

problem Establishing precise structural and risk equivalences between subsampling and ridge regularization.
method Proved structural and risk equivalences between subsample ridge estimators and different ridge regularization levels and subsample aspect ratios.
result Optimally tuned ridge regression exhibits a monotonic prediction risk in the data aspect ratio.

We study the distribution of resonances for geometrically finite hyperbolic surfaces of infinite area by countting resonances numerically. The resonances are computed as zeros of the Selberg zeta function, using an algorithm for computation of the zeta function for Schottky groups. Our particular focus is on three aspe…

2013-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We relate previously defined quantum characteristic classes to Morse theoretic aspects of the Hofer length functional on $\ls$. As an application we prove a theorem which can be interpreted as stating that this functional behaves "virtually" as a perfect Morse-Bott functional with a flow. This can be applied to study t…

2008-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗

FunBaT extends Tucker decomposition to handle continuous-indexed tensor data.

problem Handling continuous-indexed tensor data that doesn't fit traditional Tucker decomposition.
method FunBaT treats continuous-indexed data as interactions between a core tensor and a group of latent functions modeled by Gaussian processes (GP). It converts each GP into a state-space prior and uses advanced message-passing techniques for scalable inference.
result FunBaT effectively handles real-world data with continuous indexes, demonstrating its advantage in synthetic and real-world applications.

The variational formalism for classical field theories is extended to the setting of Lie algebroids. Given a Lagrangian function we study the problem of finding critical points of the action functional when we restrict the fields to be morphisms of Lie algebroids. In addition to the standard case, our formalism include…

2004-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

In this thesis, we study cohomological properties of non-Kähler manifolds. In particular, we are concerned in investigating the cohomology of compact (almost-)complex manifolds, and of manifolds endowed with special structures, e.g., symplectic structures, D-complex structures in the sense of F. R. Harvey and H. B. Law…

2013-02-03abs ↗pdf ↗