In this paper, we study functional approximations where we choose the so-called radial basis function method and more specifically, quasi-interpolation. From the various available approaches to the latter, we form new quasi-Lagrange functions when the orders of the singularities of the radial function's Fourier transforms at zero do not match the parity of the dimension of the space, and therefore new expansions and coefficients are needed to overcome this problem. We develop explicit constructions of infinite Fourier expansions that provide these coefficients and make an extensive comparison of the approximation qualities and - with a particular focus - polynomial precision and uniform approximation order of the various formulae. One of the interesting observations concerns the link between algebraic conditions of expansion coefficients and analytic properties of localness and convergence.
In this paper, we obtain sufficient and necessary conditions for quasi-cyclic codes with index even to be symplectic self-orthogonal. Then, we propose a method for constructing symplectic self-orthogonal quasi-cyclic codes, which allows arbitrary polynomials that coprime $x^{n}-1$ to construct symplectic self-orthogonal codes. Moreover, by decomposing the space of quasi-cyclic codes, we provide lower and upper bounds on the minimum symplectic distances of a class of 1-generator quasi-cyclic codes and their symplectic dual codes. Finally, we construct many binary symplectic self-orthogonal codes with excellent parameters, corresponding to 117 record-breaking quantum codes, improving Grassl's table (Bounds on the Minimum Distance of Quantum Codes. //www.codetables.de).
In this work, we introduce a new acquisition function for sequential sampling to efficiently quantify rare-event statistics of an input-to-response (ItR) system with given input probability and expensive function evaluations. Our acquisition is a generalization of the likelihood-weighted (LW) acquisition that was initially designed for the same purpose and then extended to many other applications. The improvement in our acquisition comes from the generalized form with two additional parameters, by varying which one can target and address two weaknesses of the original LW acquisition: (1) that the input space associated with rare-event responses is not sufficiently stressed in sampling; (2) that the surrogate model (generated from samples) may have significant deviation from the true ItR function, especially for cases with complex ItR function and limited number of samples. In addition, we develop a critical procedure in Monte-Carlo discrete optimization of the acquisition function, which achieves orders of magnitude acceleration compared to existing approaches for such type of problems. The superior performance of our new acquisition to the original LW acquisition is demonstrated in a number of test cases, including some cases that were designed to show the effectiveness of the original LW acquisition. We finally apply our method to an engineering example to quantify the rare-event roll-motion statistics of a ship in a random sea.
In this paper, we present a novel numerical scheme for simulating deformable and extensible capsules suspended in a Stokesian fluid. The main feature of our scheme is a partition-of-unity (POU) based representation of the surface that enables asymptotically faster computations compared to spherical-harmonics based representations. We use a boundary integral equation formulation to represent and discretize hydrodynamic interactions. The boundary integrals are weakly singular. We use the quadrature scheme based on the regularized Stokes kernels. We also use partition-of unity based finite differences that are required for the computational of interfacial forces. Given an N-point surface discretization, our numerical scheme has fourth-order accuracy and O(N) asymptotic complexity, which is an improvement over the O(N^2 log(N)) complexity of a spherical harmonics based spectral scheme that uses product-rule quadratures. We use GPU acceleration and demonstrate the ability of our code to simulate the complex shapes with high resolution. We study capsules that resist shear and tension and their dynamics in shear and Poiseuille flows. We demonstrate the convergence of the scheme and compare with the state of the art.
In this paper we propose a variant of enriched Galerkin methods for second order elliptic equations with over-penalization of interior jump terms. The bilinear form with interior over-penalization gives a non-standard norm which is different from the discrete energy norm in the classical discontinuous Galerkin methods. Nonetheless we prove that optimal a priori error estimates with the standard discrete energy norm can be obtained by combining a priori and a posteriori error analysis techniques. We also show that the interior over-penalization is advantageous for constructing preconditioners robust to mesh refinement by analyzing spectral equivalence of bilinear forms. Numerical results are included to illustrate the convergence and preconditioning results.
Symmetry is a cornerstone of much of mathematics, and many probability distributions possess symmetries characterized by their invariance to a collection of group actions. Thus, many mathematical and statistical methods rely on such symmetry holding and ostensibly fail if symmetry is broken. This work considers under what conditions a sequence of probability measures asymptotically gains such symmetry or invariance to a collection of group actions. Considering the many symmetries of the Gaussian distribution, this work effectively proposes a non-parametric type of central limit theorem. That is, a Lipschitz function of a high dimensional random vector will be asymptotically invariant to the actions of certain compact topological groups. Applications of this include a partial law of the iterated logarithm for uniformly random points in an $\ell_p^n$-ball and an asymptotic equivalence between classical parametric statistical tests and their randomization counterparts even when invariance assumptions are violated.
This paper introduces a mathematical framework for explicit structural dynamics, employing approximate dual functionals and rowsum mass lumping. We demonstrate that the approach may be interpreted as a Petrov-Galerkin method that utilizes rowsum mass lumping or as a Galerkin method with a customized higher-order accurate mass matrix. Unlike prior work, our method correctly incorporates Dirichlet boundary conditions while preserving higher order accuracy. The mathematical analysis is substantiated by spectral analysis and a two-dimensional linear benchmark that involves a non-linear geometric mapping. Our results reveal that our approach achieves accuracy and robustness comparable to a traditional Galerkin method employing the consistent mass formulation, while retaining the explicit nature of the lumped mass formulation.
We study how to construct a stochastic process on a finite interval with given `roughness' and finite joint moments of marginal distributions. We first extend Ciesielski's isomorphism along a general sequence of partitions, and provide a characterization of H\"older regularity of a function in terms of its Schauder coefficients. Using this characterization we provide a better (pathwise) estimator of H\"older exponent. As an additional application, we construct fake (fractional) Brownian motions with some path properties and finite moments of marginal distributions same as (fractional) Brownian motions. These belong to non-Gaussian families of stochastic processes which are statistically difficult to distinguish from real (fractional) Brownian motions.
Differential geometric approaches are ubiquitous in several fields of mathematics, physics and engineering, and their discretizations enable the development of network-based mathematical and computational frameworks, which are essential for large-scale data science. The Forman-Ricci curvature (FRC) - a statistical measure based on Riemannian geometry and designed for networks - is known for its high capacity for extracting geometric information from complex networks. However, extracting information from dense networks is still challenging due to the combinatorial explosion of high-order network structures. Motivated by this challenge we sought a set-theoretic representation theory for high-order network cells and FRC, as well as their associated concepts and properties, which together provide an alternative and efficient formulation for computing high-order FRC in complex networks. We provide a pseudo-code, a software implementation coined FastForman, as well as a benchmark comparison with alternative implementations. Crucially, our representation theory reveals previous computational bottlenecks and also accelerates the computation of FRC. As a consequence, our findings open new research possibilities in complex systems where higher-order geometric computations are required.
In this paper the interpolating rational functions introduced by Floater and Hormann are generalized leading to a whole new family of rational functions depending on $\gamma$, an additional positive integer parameter. For $\gamma = 1$, the original Floater--Hormann interpolants are obtained. When $\gamma>1$ we prove that the new rational functions share a lot of the nice properties of the original Floater--Hormann functions. Indeed, for any configuration of nodes in a compact interval, they have no real poles, interpolate the given data, preserve the polynomials up to a certain fixed degree, and have a barycentric-type representation. Moreover, we estimate the associated Lebesgue constants in terms of the minimum ($h^*$) and maximum ($h$) distance between two consecutive nodes. It turns out that, in contrast to the original Floater-Hormann interpolants, for all $\gamma > 1$ we get uniformly bounded Lebesgue constants in the case of equidistant and quasi-equidistant nodes configurations (i.e., when $h\sim h^*$). For such configurations, as the number of nodes tends to infinity, we prove that the new interpolants ($\gamma>1$) uniformly converge to the interpolated function $f$, for any continuous function $f$ and all $\gamma>1$. The same is not ensured by the original FH interpolants ($\gamma=1$). Moreover, we provide uniform and pointwise estimates of the approximation error for functions having different degrees of smoothness. Numerical experiments illustrate the theoretical results and show a better error profile for less smooth functions compared to the original Floater-Hormann interpolants.
In this paper we introduce a multilevel Picard approximation algorithm for general semilinear parabolic PDEs with gradient-dependent nonlinearities whose coefficient functions do not need to be constant. We also provide a full convergence and complexity analysis of our algorithm. To obtain our main results, we consider a particular stochastic fixed-point equation (SFPE) motivated by the Feynman-Kac representation and the Bismut-Elworthy-Li formula. We show that the PDE under consideration has a unique viscosity solution which coincides with the first component of the unique solution of the stochastic fixed-point equation. Moreover, if the PDE admits a strong solution, then the gradient of the unique solution of the PDE coincides with the second component of the unique solution of the stochastic fixed-point equation.