Neural networks struggle with periodic functions, a new activation fixes this.
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Binary encoding enables neural networks to extrapolate periodic functions.
Periodic activation functions improve neural network reliability and interpretability.
Model for multi-period carbon market pricing with allowances.
FNN approximates functions and solves PDEs with periodic BCs.
Quantum neural networks approximate periodic functions more efficiently.
In this paper we show how to bypass the usual difficulties in the analysis of elliptic integrals that arise when solving period problems for minimal surfaces. The method consists of replacing period problems with ordinary Sturm-Liouville problems involving the support function. We give a practical application by provin…
The study counts periodic orbits on smooth manifolds, adding ghost orbits for completeness.
In the present paper, we derive a closed-form solution of the multi-period portfolio choice problem for a quadratic utility function with and without a riskless asset. All results are derived under weak conditions on the asset returns. No assumption on the correlation structure between different time points is needed a…
Simple constructions of semi-discrete and discrete surfaces using Jacobi elliptic functions.
The main theme of this paper is a relative version of the almost existence theorem for periodic orbits of autonomous Hamiltonian systems. We show that almost all low levels of a function on a geometrically bounded symplectically aspherical manifold carry contractible periodic orbits of the Hamiltonian flow, provided th…
The paper classifies periodic solitons in curve flows on the light-cone.
The presence of log-periodic structures before and after stock market crashes is considered to be an imprint of an intrinsic discrete scale invariance (DSI) in this complex system. The fractal framework of the theory leaves open the possibility of observing self-similar log-periodic structures at different time scales.…
We analyze the classical model of compound interest with a constant per-period payment and interest rate. We examine the outstanding balance function as well as the periodic payment function and show that the outstanding balance function is not generally concave in the interest rate, but instead may be initially convex…
An area-preserving diffeomorphism of an annulus has an "action function" which measures how the diffeomorphism distorts curves. The average value of the action function over the annulus is known as the Calabi invariant of the diffeomorphism, while the average value of the action function over a periodic orbit of the di…
Study transcendence of abelian differential periods from bi-algebraic perspective.
We show that for any n real periodic functions f_1,..., f_n with the same period, such that f_i>0 for i<n, and a real number e >0, there is a closed curve in R^{n+1} with curvatures k_1, ..., k_n such that |k_i(t)-f_i(t)| < e for all i and t. This neither holds for closed curves in the hyperbolic space H^{n+1}, nor for…
Chirped sinosoids and interferometric phase plots are functions that are not periodic, but are the composition of a smooth function and a periodic function. These functions functions factor into a pair of maps: from their domain to a circle, and from a circle to their codomain. One can easily imagine replacing the circ…
Study shows no periodic geodesics in jet space.
We introduce a new class of forward performance processes that are endogenous and predictable with regards to an underlying market information set and, furthermore, are updated at discrete times. We analyze in detail a binomial model whose parameters are random and updated dynamically as the market evolves. We show tha…
Paper proposes a robust framework for detecting multiple periodic components in time series.
Study optimal periodic dividend strategies for risky businesses with transaction costs.
Understanding the representational power of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and how their structural properties (e.g., depth, width, type of activation unit) affect the functions they can compute, has been an important yet challenging question in deep learning and approximation theory. In a seminal paper, Telgarsky highlig…
The aim of this paper is to compare statistical properties of stock price indices in periods of booms with those in periods of stagnations. We use the daily data of the four stock price indices in the major stock markets in the world: (i) the Nikkei 225 index (Nikkei 225) from January 4, 1975 to August 18, 2004, of (ii…
This paper optimizes periodic dividend strategies for Lévy processes with transaction costs.
We develop a single-period model for a large economic agent who trades with market makers at their utility indifference prices. A key role is played by a pair of conjugate saddle functions associated with the description of Pareto optimal allocations in terms of the utility function of a representative market maker.
Study optimal portfolio strategies with periodic evaluation under short-selling prohibition.
This paper optimizes portfolio management in incomplete markets with stochastic factors, considering periodic wealth evaluations.
Proves a theorem for mechanical systems with reflections.
DEPTS learns to forecast periodic time series with improved accuracy.
We prove the Livšic Theorem for arbitrary cocycles. We consider a hyperbolic dynamical system and a Hölder continuous function . We show that if has trivial periodic data, i.e. for each periodic point , then there …
We will show that the period of a closed orbit of the planar circular restricted three-body problem (viewed on rotating coordinates) depends on the region it encloses. Roughly speaking, we show that, where is an integer, is the region enclosed by the periodic orbit and $g:\mathbb{R}^2\to \m…
BEKAN uses RBFs and evolutionary methods to solve PDEs with boundary conditions.
In this paper, we revisit the optimal periodic dividend problem, in which dividend payments can only be made at the jump times of an independent Poisson process. In the dual (spectrally positive Lévy) model, recent results have shown the optimality of a periodic barrier strategy, which pays dividends at Poissonian divi…
We study the periods mapping from the moduli space of real hyperelliptic curves with marked point on an oriented oval to the euclidean space. The mapping arises in the analysis of Chebyshev construction used in the constrained optimization of the uniform norm of polynomials and rational functions. The decomposition of …
We use bifurcation theory to determine the existence of infinitely many new examples of triply periodic minimal surfaces in . These new examples form branches issuing from the H-family, the rPD-family, the tP-family, and the tD-family, that converge to some degenerate embedding of the families. As to nonde…
Avanzi et al. (2016) recently studied an optimal dividend problem where dividends are paid both periodically and continuously with different transaction costs. In the Brownian model with Poissonian periodic dividend payment opportunities, they showed that the optimal strategy is either of the pure-continuous, pure-peri…
In this paper we derive the exact solution of the multi-period portfolio choice problem for an exponential utility function under return predictability. It is assumed that the asset returns depend on predictable variables and that the joint random process of the asset returns and the predictable variables follow a vect…
For a real valued periodic smooth function u on R, , one defines the osculating polynomial (of order 2n+1) at a point to be the unique trigonometric polynomial of degree n, whose value and first 2n derivatives at s coincide with those of u at s. We will say that a point s is a clean maximal flex …
Paper defines untangling number to measure entanglement complexity in 3-periodic networks.
The paper explores the geometry of level lines of quasiperiodic functions with many periods.
Reduces learning periodic neural networks to lattice problems, proving hardness under cryptographic assumptions.
Improved neural network depth-width trade-offs via dynamical systems.
We consider a version of the stochastic inventory control problem for a spectrally positive Lévy demand process, in which the inventory can only be replenished at independent exponential times. We show the optimality of a periodic barrier replenishment policy that restocks any shortage below a certain threshold at each…
Study vineyards linking TDA and knot theory, showing rich topological features.
Periodicity is often studied in timeseries modelling with autoregressive methods but is less popular in the kernel literature, particularly for higher dimensional problems such as in textures, crystallography, and quantum mechanics. Large datasets often make modelling periodicity untenable for otherwise powerful non-pa…
This paper analyzes how periodic and soft target updates stabilize linear Q-learning.
Paper introduces a new pricing method for electricity swaps and options.