Research
On-device research index

arXiv research

A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.

168,695 papers · 148 categories

Trend · papers per month

163325488650 · Jun 202019922001200920172026
48 results for zero-mean functions

Randomly initialized wide neural networks with zero-mean activations are nearly independent, potentially solving AI interpretability limits.

problem Measuring the limits of AI interpretability.
method Randomly initialized neural networks with large width and zero-mean activation functions.
result Neural networks with zero-mean activations are nearly independent, solving the computational no-coincidence conjecture.

Study duality of zero mean curvature surfaces in Heisenberg group.

problem Understanding the duality of zero mean curvature surfaces in the Lorentzian Heisenberg group.
method Investigation of a transformation surface associated with zero mean curvature surfaces in the Heisenberg group under two metrics.
result Derivation of the Sym formula for the dual surface in both metric cases.

Solves surface problem in 3D light cone.

problem Björling problem for zero mean curvature surfaces in the three-dimensional light cone.
method Solves the Björling problem for zero mean curvature surfaces in the three-dimensional light cone.
result Constructs and classifies all rotational zero mean curvature surfaces.

Study classifies zero mean curvature surfaces with planar curvature lines.

problem Characterizing surfaces with specific curvature properties.
method Complete classification and investigation of their relationship to Thomsen-type surfaces.
result Zero mean curvature surfaces with planar curvature lines belong to a 1-parameter family.

Paper investigates reflection principles for zero mean curvature surfaces in isotropic 3-space.

problem Investigating reflection principles for zero mean curvature surfaces in isotropic 3-space.
method Analyzes reflection principles for zero mean curvature surfaces in I3\mathbb{I}^3.
result Shows a reflection principle for isotropic line segments on zero mean curvature surfaces in I3\mathbb{I}^3.

On any timelike surface with zero mean curvature in the four-dimensional Minkowski space we introduce special geometric (canonical) parameters and prove that the Gauss curvature and the normal curvature of the surface satisfy a system of two natural partial differential equations. Conversely, any two solutions to this …

2011-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proves a Moser-Trudinger inequality for zero-mean functions in 2D.

problem Proving a Moser-Trudinger inequality for zero-mean functions in 2D.
method Analyzing the supremum of a specific integral over functions in W1,2(Ω)W^{1,2}(Ω) with zero mean and bounded gradient norm.
result The supremum is finite and can be attained for β(0,1)β \in (0,1), partially generalizing Chang and Yang's result.

New examples of mixed-type zero-curvature graphs found.

problem Finding new examples of zero-curvature graphs in Lorentz-Minkowski space.
method Using Konderak's representation formula to construct entire zero-curvature graphs over specific planes.
result Existence of new types of entire zero-curvature graphs in mixed-type in Lorentz-Minkowski space.

Riemann zero mean curvature examples in the Lorentz-Minkowski space are surfaces with zero mean curvature foliated by circles contained in parallel planes. In contrast to the Euclidean case, this family of surfaces presents new and rich features because of the variety of types of circles. In this paper, we give a geome…

2018-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper shows how Scherk-type surfaces can be decomposed into helicoids.

problem Decomposing Scherk-type zero mean curvature surfaces.
method Using a special Euler-Ramanujan identity and Wick rotation, the paper expresses these surfaces as an infinite superposition of dilated helicoids and provides different finite decompositions.
result Scherk-type zero mean curvature surfaces can be expressed as an infinite superposition of dilated helicoids.

Study shows zero level sets of solutions to Allen-Cahn equation are minimal surfaces with zero mean curvature.

problem Understanding phase transitions through entire solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation.
method Proving minimality of the zero level set with respect to a perimeter functional with density and showing zero mean curvature.
result The zero level set of entire solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation has zero mean curvature and is minimal.

Study maxfaces and minfaces converging to surfaces with folded singularities.

problem Analyzing surfaces with folded singularities and their convergence properties.
method Constructing families of maxfaces and minfaces with increasing cuspidal crosscaps.
result Maxfaces and minfaces converge to surfaces with folded singularities.

Derive new Euler-Ramanujan-type identities and infinite decompositions for zero mean curvature graphs in various spaces.

problem Derive new Euler-Ramanujan-type identities and infinite decompositions for zero mean curvature graphs in various spaces.
method Derive new Euler-Ramanujan-type identities and infinite decompositions for zero mean curvature graphs in various spaces.
result Derive new Euler-Ramanujan-type identities and infinite decompositions for zero mean curvature graphs in various spaces.

As a novel similarity measure that is defined as the expectation of a kernel function between two random variables, correntropy has been successfully applied in robust machine learning and signal processing to combat large outliers. The kernel function in correntropy is usually a zero-mean Gaussian kernel. In a recent …

2019-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

The class of second order ODE's cubic with respect to the first order derivative is considered. Using geometric structures associated with these equations, the subclasses of umbilical equations, zero mean curvature equations, and zero Gaussian curvature equations are defined. Zero mean curvature equations are studied w…

2017-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on surfaces in neutral space forms with zero mean curvature.

problem Characterizing surfaces with zero mean curvature in neutral space forms.
method Analyzing curvature and normal connection properties of time-like conformal immersions.
result Conditions for surfaces with zero mean curvature in neutral space forms.

In this paper we provide a family of algebraic space-like surfaces in the three dimensional anti de Sitter space that shows that this Lorentzian manifold admits algebraic maximal examples of any order. Then, we classify all the space-like order two algebraic maximal hypersurfaces in the anti de Sitter NN-dimensional s…

2009-03-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Ordinary stochastic neural networks mostly rely on the expected values of their weights to make predictions, whereas the induced noise is mostly used to capture the uncertainty, prevent overfitting and slightly boost the performance through test-time averaging. In this paper, we introduce variance layers, a different k…

2018-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider regular surfaces MM that are given as the zeros of a polynomial function p:R3Rp:R^3\rightarrow R, where the gradient of pp vanishes nowhere. We assume that MM has non-zero mean curvature and prove that there exist only two examples of such surfaces, namely the sphere and the circular cylinder.

2014-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper relaxes independence assumption for non-centered data.

problem Failing to account for dependencies in data leads to model failures.
method Proposes 'Kronecker-sum-structured mean' assumption to relax zero-mean requirement.
result Models with nonconvex but unimodal log-likelihoods can be solved efficiently.

In the half-space model of hyperbolic space, that is, $\r^3_{+}=\{(x,y,z)\in\r^3;z>0\}$ with the hyperbolic metric, a translation surface is a surface that writes as z=f(x)+g(y)z=f(x)+g(y) or y=f(x)+g(z)y=f(x)+g(z), where ff and gg are smooth functions. We prove that the only minimal translation surfaces (zero mean curvature in all po…

2009-02-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate the relation between quadrics and their Christoffel duals on the one hand, and certain zero mean curvature surfaces and their Gauss maps on the other hand. To study the relation between timelike minimal surfaces and the Christoffel duals of 1-sheeted hyperboloids we introduce para-holomorphic elliptic fu…

2017-01-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep Learning has revolutionized vision via convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and natural language processing via recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, success stories of Deep Learning with standard feed-forward neural networks (FNNs) are rare. FNNs that perform well are typically shallow and, therefore cannot …

2017-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Let (M,g) be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. We consider the problem (first studied by Escobar in 1992) of finding a conformal metric with constant scalar curvature in the interior and zero mean curvature on the boundary. Using a local test function construction, we are able to settle most cases left open …

2009-08-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Study Born-Infeld solitons and solve Björling problem for them.

problem Existence and non-uniqueness of solutions to the Björling problem for Born-Infeld solitons.
method Two approaches: treating as time-like minimal surfaces or using Barbashov-Chernikov representation.
result Solution to Björling problem may not be unique.

It is well-known that the distribution over functions induced through a zero-mean iid prior distribution over the parameters of a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) converges to a Gaussian process (GP), under mild conditions. We extend this result firstly to independent priors with general zero or non-zero means, and secondl…

2019-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

This study examines a single attention layer's capabilities using random features.

problem Understanding the learning and generalization of a single multi-head attention layer.
method Random feature setting with large number of heads, frozen query and key matrices, and trainable value matrices.
result Random-feature attention layer can express a broad class of permutation-invariant target functions.

In L^3, cuspidal edges can have bounded mean curvature under specific conditions.

problem Understanding cuspidal edges with bounded mean curvature in Lorentz-Minkowski 3-space.
method Investigated cuspidal edges and generalized cuspidal edges, analyzing their singular points and principal curvatures.
result Cuspidal edges with bounded mean curvature in L^3 occur only when the singular set is a light-like curve.

New connections found on zero-mean multivariate normal distributions.

problem Characterizing statistical connections on zero-mean multivariate normal distributions.
method Investigating invariant conjugate symmetric statistical connections on the submanifold of zero-mean multivariate normal distributions.
result Invariant connections on zero-mean multivariate normal distributions are not uniquely characterized by invariance under the general linear group action.