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48 results for surface energy density

The study shows how energy density of harmonic maps dominates in nn-Fuchsian fibers, leading to unique minimal surfaces.

problem Understanding energy density and topological invariants in nn-Fuchsian fibers of Higgs bundles.
method Establishing an algebraic inequality generalizing a GIT theorem to prove energy density domination.
result Energy density of harmonic maps dominates in nn-Fuchsian fibers, leading to unique minimal surfaces.

Proposes a new quasi-local mass for timelike 2-surfaces in spacetimes.

problem Need a mass definition for 2-surfaces with timelike mean curvature.
method Adopts Wang-Yau's quasi-local energy framework, modifies for timelike mean curvature.
result Yields a positive definite surface energy density and divergence-free current.

Develops spherical density-equalizing maps for closed surfaces.

problem Lack of methods for genus-0 closed surfaces.
method Conformal parameterization onto unit sphere, density equalization, quasi-conformal theory, harmonic energy, landmark constraints.
result Landmark-aligned spherical density-equalizing maps balancing different distortion measures.

Developed an ellipsoidal density-equalizing map for genus-0 closed surfaces.

problem Large geometric distortion when using spherical domain for genus-0 closed surfaces.
method Developed a novel method for ellipsoidal density-equalizing maps and combined with quasi-conformal maps.
result Significantly improved surface remeshing performance for genus-0 closed surfaces.

Study magnetic Laplacians on hyperbolic surfaces, revealing three regimes of eigenfunction behavior.

problem Investigate semiclassical defect measures of magnetic Laplacians on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Analyze eigenfunctions in low, critical, and high energy regimes using quantum ergodicity and equidistribution.
result Eigenfunctions in different regimes converge to distinct measures: invariant, Liouville, or equidistributed.

Method flattens complex surfaces with consistent density and shape.

problem Shape deformations and local geometric distortions in density-equalizing maps for multiply-connected surfaces.
method Formulates density diffusion as a quasiconformal flow, solving an energy minimization problem involving the Beltrami coefficient to ensure bijectivity and control distortion.
result Achieves optimal parameterization of multiply-connected surfaces with bijective and controlled geometric distortions.

The calculation of minimum energy paths for transitions such as atomic and/or spin re-arrangements is an important task in many contexts and can often be used to determine the mechanism and rate of transitions. An important challenge is to reduce the computational effort in such calculations, especially when ab initio …

2017-03-30abs ↗pdf ↗

For a fixed smooth map u0u_0 between two Riemann surfaces ΣΣ and SS with non-zero degree, we consider the energy function on Teichmüller space $\mc{T}$ of ΣΣ that assigns to a complex structure $t\in \mc{T}$ on ΣΣ the energy of the harmonic map ut:Σt:=(Σ,t)Su_t:Σ_t:=(Σ,t) \to S homotopic to u0u_0. We prove that the energy fun…

2019-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings confirm parallels to De Giorgi's conjecture for phase transitions in higher dimensions.

problem Understanding phase transitions with bounded index in higher-dimensional spaces.
method Establishing parallels to De Giorgi's conjecture for general solutions of bounded Morse index.
result Finite index solutions to the Allen--Cahn equation in R4\mathbb{R}^4 are one-dimensional, and this holds for all 4n74 \leq n \leq 7.

We prove that at a finite singular time for the Harmonic Ricci Flow on a surface of positive genus both the energy density of the map component and the curvature of the domain manifold have to blow up simultaneously. As an immediate consequence, we obtain smooth long-time existence for the Harmonic Ricci Flow with larg…

2015-10-13abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we analyzed the physical meaning of scalar curvatures for a generalized Riemannian space. It is developed the Madsen's formulae for pressures and energy-densities with respect to the corresponding energy-momentum tensors. After that, the energy-momentum tensors, pressures, energy-densities and state-para…

2019-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural density estimators are flexible families of parametric models which have seen widespread use in unsupervised machine learning in recent years. Maximum-likelihood training typically dictates that these models be constrained to specify an explicit density. However, this limitation can be overcome by instead using …

2019-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum vacuum energy (Casimir energy) is reviewed for a mathematical audience as a topic in spectral theory. Then some one-dimensional systems are solved exactly, in terms of closed classical paths and periodic orbits. The relations among local spectral densities, energy densities, global eigenvalue densities, and tot…

2007-06-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Gaussian process regression loses locality in high dimensions, affecting molecular energy surface fitting.

problem Loss of locality in high-dimensional Gaussian process regression.
method Analysis of Matern family kernels and multi-zeta basis functions.
result The property of locality disappears in high dimensions, impacting regression quality.

Efficiently samples and learns densities with symmetries using equivariant methods.

problem Efficiently sampling and learning densities with symmetries.
method Equivariant Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) and equivariant energy based models.
result Improves and scales up training of energy based models.

The paper classifies biharmonic quadratic maps between spheres, proving their energy density properties.

problem Classifying non-harmonic biharmonic quadratic forms between spheres.
method Proving non-harmonic biharmonic quadratic forms have constant energy density and classifying them.
result Non-harmonic biharmonic quadratic forms have constant energy density (m+1)/2(m+1)/2.

Kernel ridge regression is used to approximate the kinetic energy of non-interacting fermions in a one-dimensional box as a functional of their density. The properties of different kernels and methods of cross-validation are explored, and highly accurate energies are achieved. Accurate {\em constrained optimal densitie…

2014-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper we contribute a novel algorithm family, which generalizes many unsupervised techniques including unnormalized and energy models, and allows us to infer different statistical modalities (e.g. data likelihood and ratio between densities) from data samples. The proposed unsupervised technique, named Probabil…

2019-03-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New method trains deep neural networks for non-interacting kinetic-energy functionals in DFT.

problem Lack of exact relationship between electron density and non-interacting kinetic energy.
method Variational principle to regularize machine-learned density functionals.
result Excellent results on kinetic-energy functionals for various systems.

Study investigates singularity formation in α\alpha-Yang-Mills-Higgs fields on spheres.

problem Singularity formation in α\alpha-Yang-Mills-Higgs fields on spheres.
method Established α\alpha-energy identity, no-neck property through Hodge decomposition and new conservation law.
result Unified and quantitative framework for singularity formation in variational gauge theories.

The paper proves short-time existence of αα-Dirac-harmonic map flow and applications.

problem Existence of αα-Dirac-harmonic maps from closed surfaces.
method Heat flow for αα-Dirac-harmonic maps, blow-up analysis, density of maps with minimal kernel.
result Existence of nontrivial αα-Dirac-harmonic maps (α1α\geq1) from closed surfaces.

We give a derivation of the Einstein equation for gravity which employs a definition of the local energy density of the gravitational field as a symmetric second rank tensor whose value for each observer gives the trace of the spatial part of the energy-stress tensor as seen by that observer. We give a physical motivat…

2008-03-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The Clifford torus minimizes Willmore energy closely for small perturbations.

problem Finding the closest shape to the Clifford torus under small perturbations of Willmore energy.
method Analyzing integral 2-varifolds with specific properties and showing quantitative closeness to the Clifford torus.
result The support of the varifold is quantitatively close to the Clifford torus after a conformal transformation.

RNE provides a flexible framework for diffusion models, enabling inference-time control and energy-based training.

problem Insufficient knowledge of marginal densities in diffusion models.
method Introduces Radon-Nikodym Estimator (RNE) to reveal the connection between marginal densities and transition kernels.
result RNE delivers strong results in inference-time control and energy-based diffusion training.

iDEM generates samples from Boltzmann densities without data.

problem Generating statistically independent samples from unnormalized distributions.
method Iterative algorithm using energy and gradient for diffusion-based sampler training.
result iDEM achieves state-of-the-art performance and trains faster than existing methods.

Adaptive multi-stage density ratio estimation improves learning of latent space EBM.

problem Learning energy-based models in latent space is computationally expensive and challenging.
method Adaptive multi-stage density ratio estimation using NCE to bridge the gap between prior and posterior densities.
result The method enables more expressive prior models and sharpens the latent space EBM.

For Ginzburg-Landau vortices, energy quantization holds only when density is less than 2.

problem Energy quantization in Ginzburg-Landau vortices for higher dimensions.
method Analyzing normalized energy measures and vorticity sets.
result Energy quantization only holds when density is less than 2.

The paper establishes curvature inequalities and rigidity results for surfaces in Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry.

problem Curvature and rigidity of surfaces in Riemannian and Lorentzian geometries.
method Establishes curvature inequalities and rigidity results using stability conditions and extrinsic curvature sign conditions.
result Sharp inequality H216π/Σ|\vec{H}|^2\leq 16π/ |Σ| for spacetime constant mean curvature surfaces under the dominant energy condition.

In this paper, we introduce a new energy density function Y\mathscr Y on the projective bundle P(TM)M\mathbb{P}(T_M)\>M for a smooth map f:(M,h)(N,g)f:(M,h)\>(N,g) between Riemannian manifolds Y=gijfαifβjWαWβhγδWγWδ.\mathscr Y=g_{ij}f^i_αf^j_β\frac{W^αW^β}{\sum h_{γδ} W^γW^δ}. We get new Hessian estimates to this energy density and obtain various new…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers created an accurate kinetic energy functional for materials modeling.

problem Lack of accurate analytic kinetic energy functionals for large-scale ab initio materials modeling.
method Interpretative machine learning of crystal cell-averaged kinetic energy densities guided by a hybrid Gaussian process regression - neural network (GPR-NN) method.
result Constructed an analytic kinetic energy functional that reproduces Kohn-Sham DFT energy-volume curves with sufficient accuracy.