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48 results for small ball problem

The small-ball method was introduced as a way of obtaining a high probability, isomorphic lower bound on the quadratic empirical process, under weak assumptions on the indexing class. The key assumption was that class members satisfy a uniform small-ball estimate: that Pr(fκfL2)δPr(|f| \geq κ\|f\|_{L_2}) \geq δ for given const…

2017-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This study examines abnormal geodesics in 2D-Zermelo navigation problems, revealing their role in separating time minimal and maximal curves.

problem The role of abnormal geodesics in planar Zermelo navigation problems with strong current.
method Geometric time optimal control approach, focusing on the heading angle of the ship.
result Abnormal geodesics separate time minimal and maximal curves, and are both small-time minimizing and maximizing.

The paper studies nonlocal isoperimetric problems in hyperbolic space and finds unique minimizers for small volumes.

problem Nonlocal isoperimetric problem in hyperbolic space.
method Investigates minimization of a functional with perimeter and a nonlocal term derived from the negative power of distance.
result Geodesic balls are unique minimizers for small volumes in hyperbolic space.

Study compares eigenvalues on spherically symmetric manifolds to Euclidean balls.

problem Comparing eigenvalues on spherically symmetric manifolds to Euclidean balls.
method Examines Dirichlet Laplace eigenvalues on balls of spherically symmetric manifolds and Euclidean space.
result Eigenvalues on spherically symmetric manifolds are smaller for small radii, but larger for hyperbolic spaces.

Recently, Awasthi et al. introduced an SDP relaxation of the kk-means problem in Rm\mathbb R^m. In this work, we consider a random model for the data points in which kk balls of unit radius are deterministically distributed throughout Rm\mathbb R^m, and then in each ball, nn points are drawn according to a common ro…

2015-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Small sub-Riemannian balls have diameter close to twice their radius.

problem Understanding the diameter of small sub-Riemannian balls.
method Analyzing C1,1C^{1,1} and C0C^0 sub-Riemannian manifolds.
result The diameter of small sub-Riemannian balls equals twice the radius in C1,1C^{1,1} manifolds, and is close to twice the radius in C0C^0 manifolds.

We construct cobordisms of small genus between torus knots and use them to determine the cobordism distance between torus knots of small braid index. In fact, the cobordisms we construct arise as the intersection of a smooth algebraic curve in C2\mathbb{C}^2 with the unit 4-ball from which a 4-ball of smaller radius is…

2015-01-02abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings on Helmholtz equation solutions show exponential growth in constant for three ball inequality.

problem Analyzing solutions of Helmholtz equation on different manifolds.
method Examining the three ball inequality for solutions of Helmholtz equation on Rn\mathbb{R}^n, Sn\mathbb{S}^n, or Hn\mathbb{H}^n.
result The constant in the three ball inequality grows exponentially with the wave number.

We study the eigenvalue problem for the Riemannian Pucci operator on geodesic balls. We establish upper and lower bounds for the principal Pucci eigenvalues depending on the curvature, extending Cheng's eigenvalue comparison theorem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator. For manifolds with bounded sectional curvature, we p…

2016-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New symplectic caps and embeddings found in complex projective plane.

problem Embeddings of homology balls in complex projective plane.
method Handlebody construction of symplectic caps and embeddings.
result First examples of symplectic handlebody decompositions of a closed symplectic 4-manifold.

We prove that the group of compactly supported symplectomorphisms of the standard symplectic ball admits a continuum of linearly independent real-valued homogeneous quasimorphisms. In addition these quasimorphisms are Lipschitz in the Hofer metric and have the following property: the value of each such quasimorphism on…

2003-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Characterizes symplectic rational homology ball fillings of Seifert fibered spaces.

problem Understanding which Seifert fibered spaces can be boundaries of symplectic rational homology balls.
method Analyzes convex boundaries and Lagrangian disk fillings of Legendrian knots.
result Strong restrictions on which Seifert fibered spaces can bound symplectic rational homology balls.

Local isoperimetric inequality holds for balls with nonpositive curvature.

problem Preserving the isoperimetric ratio in perturbed ball metrics with nonpositive curvature.
method Analyzing perturbations of ball metrics with nonpositive curvature.
result Isoperimetric ratio is preserved only by homotheties of the ball.

In this paper we investigate the properties of small surfaces of Willmore type in Riemannian manifolds. By \emph{small} surfaces we mean topological spheres contained in a geodesic ball of small enough radius. In particular, we show that if there exist such surfaces with positive mean curvature in the geodesic ball $B_…

2009-09-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Algorithm finds small confidence sets for arbitrary distributions.

problem Learning high-density regions in arbitrary distributions.
method Competitive with sets from a concept class with bounded VC-dimension.
result Algorithm finds a confidence set with volume exp(ildeO(d1/2))\exp( ilde{O}(d^{1/2})) competitive with optimal ball.

Call a smooth knot (or smooth link) in the unit sphere in C2\mathbb{C}^2 analytic (respectively, smoothly analytic) if it bounds a complex curve (respectively, a smooth complex curve) in the complex ball. Let KK be a smoothly analytic knot. For a small tubular neighbourhood of KK we give a sharp lower bound for the 4…

2015-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

In this short note we show that the lower bounds of Mangoubi on the inner radius of nodal domains can be improved for quantum ergodic sequences of eigenfunctions, according to a certain power of the radius of shrinking balls on which the eigenfunctions equidistribute. We prove such improvements using a quick applicatio…

2016-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Identifies bilinear systems from a single trajectory with optimal sample complexity.

problem Learning bilinear systems from a single trajectory of states and inputs.
method Uses a mild marginal mean-square stability assumption and martingale small-ball condition.
result Sample complexity and statistical error rates are optimal.

The rational homology balls BnB_n appeared in Fintushel and Stern's rational blow-down construction [FS] and were subsequently used (e.g. Fintushel-Stern[FS4], Park[Pa2]) to construct exotic smooth manifolds with small Euler numbers. We show that a large class of smooth 4-manifolds have all of the BnB_n's for odd $n \g…

2012-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop an analog of harmonic replacement in the gauge theory context. The idea behind harmonic replacement dates back to Schwarz and Perron. The technique, as introduced by Jost and further developed by Colding and Minicozzi, involves taking a map v ⁣:ΣMv\colonΣ\to M defined on a surface ΣΣ and replacing its values on…

2016-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Constructs ε-splitting maps for geodesic balls with non-negative Ricci curvature.

problem Constructing ε-splitting maps for geodesic balls with non-negative Ricci curvature.
method Induction and stratified almost Gou-Gu Theorem for finding directional points; error estimates for projections.
result Constructs εε-splitting maps on concentric geodesic balls with uniformly small radius.

We consider the problem of online linear regression on individual sequences. The goal in this paper is for the forecaster to output sequential predictions which are, after TT time rounds, almost as good as the ones output by the best linear predictor in a given 1\ell^1-ball in Rd\\R^d. We consider both the cases wher…

2011-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

For a certain class of distributions, we prove that the linear programming relaxation of kk-medoids clustering---a variant of kk-means clustering where means are replaced by exemplars from within the dataset---distinguishes points drawn from nonoverlapping balls with high probability once the number of points drawn a…

2013-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature have virtually abelian fundamental groups if they escape from bounded balls at a small rate.

problem Understanding the fundamental groups of open manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature.
method Analyzing the escape rate of minimal geodesic loops and relating it to the fundamental group's properties.
result If an open manifold has a small escape rate, its fundamental group is virtually abelian.

Researchers quantify risk exposure and sensitivities in financial markets under model uncertainty.

problem Optimizing investment and pricing under model uncertainty in financial markets.
method Distributionally robust optimization, Wasserstein ball, first-order sensitivity analysis.
result Sensitivities of value function, investment policy, and marginal prices to model uncertainty can be non-monotonic.

Study tests uniformity of categorical data against missing-ball alternatives, finding chi-squared test outperforms.

problem Testing uniformity of categorical data against missing-ball alternatives.
method Characterizes minimax risk, uses collisions and chi-squared test, reduces to structured subset of alternatives.
result Minimax test outperforms chi-squared test under least favorable alternative.

We show that there are minimal graphs in R^{n+1} whose intersection with the portion of the horizontal hyperplane contained in the unit ball has any prescribed geometry, up to a small deformation. The proof hinges on the construction of minimal graphs that are almost flat but have small oscillations whose geometry we c…

2016-02-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Consider an integral Brakke flow (μt)(μ_t), t[0,T]t\in [0,T], inside some ball in Euclidean space. If μ0μ_{0} has small height, its measure does not deviate too much from that of a plane and if μTμ_{T} is non-empty, then Brakke's local regularity theorem yields that (μt)(μ_t) is actually smooth and graphical inside a smaller b…

2016-01-25abs ↗pdf ↗