arXiv research

We study locally compact contractive local groups, that is, locally compact local groups with a contractive pseudo-automorphism. We prove that if such an object is locally connected, then it is locally isomorphic to a Lie group. We also prove a related structure theorem for locally compact contractive local groups whic…

The paper explores local-correlation models for pricing complex financial contracts.

LDP is equivalent to contraction of E_γ-divergence, impacting privacy and utility.

Develops a contraction framework for MCMC mixing rates.

Non-linear Hopf manifolds can be embedded into linear ones and admit LCK metrics.

Study finds a non-locally contractible $r$-convex set.

We prove that any finite dimensional Alexandrov space with a lower curvature bound is locally Lipschitz contractible. As applications, we obtain a sufficient condition for solving the Plateau problem in an Alexandrov space considered by Mese and Zulkowski.

This paper pays a visit to a famous contractible open 3-manifold $W^3$ proposed by R. H. Bing in 1950's. By the finiteness theorem \cite{Hak68}, Haken proved that $W^3$ can embed in no compact 3-manifold. However, until now, the question about whether $W^3$ can embed in a more general compact space such as a compact, l…

We study $E_γ$-divergence contraction and its privacy implications.

Let $X$ be a contractible $2$-complex which is a union of two contractible subcomplexes $Y$ and $Z.$ Is the intersection $Y\cap Z$ contractible as well? In this note, we prove that the inclusion-induced map $π_{1}(Y\cap Z)\rightarrow π_{1}(Z)$ is injective if $Y$ is $π_{1}$-injective subcomplex in a locally CAT(0) 2-co…

The study explores convex unions and completions in simplicial pseudomanifolds, revealing unexpected behavior.

The contractive auto-encoder learns a representation of the input data that captures the local manifold structure around each data point, through the leading singular vectors of the Jacobian of the transformation from input to representation. The corresponding singular values specify how much local variation is plausib…

Ricci limit spaces are semi-locally simply connected.

A quasi-geodesic is Morse if and only if it is strongly contracting in injective spaces.

Study shows bounds on knot groups and nonembeddability of certain open manifolds.

The main technical result of this paper is to characterize the contracting isometries of a CAT(0) cube complex without any assumption on its local finiteness. Afterwards, we introduce the combinatorial boundary of a CAT(0) cube complex, and we show that contracting isometries are strongly related to isolated points at …

There are known infinite families of Brieskorn homology 3-spheres which can be realized as boundaries of smooth contractible 4-manifolds. In this paper we show that free periodic actions on these Brieskorn spheres do not extend smoothly over a contractible 4-manifold. We give a new infinite family of examples in which …

Tool for contracting subcurves of hyperelliptic curves, proving differential implications.

This paper presents some partial answers to the following question. QUESTION. If a normal space X is the union of an increasing sequence of open sets U(1), U(2), U(3) ... such that each U(n) contracts to a point in X, must X be contractible? The main results of the paper are: THEOREM 1. If a normal space X is the union…

Fixed point sets of certain group actions are contractible.

Model prices commodity futures and index options.

Extends six operations to sheaves in any symmetric monoidal category.

In this paper we investigate the local risk-minimization approach for a combined financial-insurance model where there are restrictions on the information available to the insurance company. In particular we assume that, at any time, the insurance company may observe the number of deaths from a specific portfolio of in…

New contractible domains on half-sphere with constant boundary Laplacian eigenfunctions.

Let $X$ be a proper CAT(0) space and let $G$ be a cocompact group of isometries of $X$ which acts properly discontinuously. Charney and Sultan constructed a quasi-isometry invariant boundary for proper CAT(0) spaces which they called the contracting boundary. The contracting boundary imitates the Gromov boundary for $δ…

Researchers prove spaces of positive scalar curvature metrics are contractible with symmetry.

New algorithms improve Bayesian linear regression with spike-and-slab priors.

Outer space for RAAGs is a contractible finite-dimensional space for automorphisms.

The paper proposes modern computational methods for optimizing reinsurance contracts.

Paper proposes a new descriptor for early trajectory characterization in matrix iterations.

In this paper we deduce a local deformation lemma for uniform embeddings in a metric covering space over a compact manifold from the deformation lemma for embeddings of a compact subspace in a manifold. This implies the local contractibility of the group of uniform homeomorphisms of such a metric covering space under t…

Quantum channels' contraction under privacy constraints studied.

Study shows contractibility of certain metrics on 3-manifolds.

Study shows volume constraints lead to isoperimetric constant bounds in specific metric spaces.

Paper develops a model to assess capital requirement for demographic risk using stochastic methods.

Recent work suggests that some auto-encoder variants do a good job of capturing the local manifold structure of the unknown data generating density. This paper contributes to the mathematical understanding of this phenomenon and helps define better justified sampling algorithms for deep learning based on auto-encoder v…

This note proves that any locally extremal non-self-conjugate geodesic loop in a Riemannian manifold is a closed geodesic. As a consequence, any complete and non-contractible Riemannian manifold with diverging injectivity radii along diverging sequences and without points conjugate to themselves, possesses a minimizing…

The study proves conditions for symplectic torus actions on manifolds with non-contractible orbits.

We propose a new non-parametric framework for learning incrementally stable dynamical systems x' = f(x) from a set of sampled trajectories. We construct a rich family of smooth vector fields induced by certain classes of matrix-valued kernels, whose equilibria are placed exactly at a desired set of locations and whose …

Study on geodesics in spacetime, proving properties of multiple maximizing paths.

Study efficient power iteration for tensor models, proving convergence under specific conditions.

This paper examines limits of Riemannian 2-manifolds with bounded curvature.

Let $X$ be a non-collapsing Ricci limit space and let $x\in X$. We show that for any $ε>0$, there is $r>0$ such that every loop in $B_t(x)$ is contractible in $B_{(1+ε)t}(x)$, where $t\in(0,r]$. In particular, $X$ is semi-locally simply connected.

Study variance-reduced method for estimating fixed points in Banach spaces.

Graph Neural Network (GNN) research has concentrated on improving convolutional layers, with little attention paid to developing graph pooling layers. Yet pooling layers can enable GNNs to reason over abstracted groups of nodes instead of single nodes. To close this gap, we propose a graph pooling layer relying on the …

The paper solves a 5-manifold foliation problem using a Sasaki-Ricci flow.

We introduce the notions of a differentiable groupoid and a differentiable stratified groupoid, generalizations of Lie groupoids in which the spaces of objects and arrows have the structures of differentiable spaces, respectively differentiable stratified spaces, compatible with the groupoid structure. After studying b…

The article reviews how to set stochastic volatility model parameters.