where F (ξ) is a nonlinear operator from a real Euclidean space of dimension n or Hilbert space into itself. The Euclidean norm and corresponding inner product will be denoted by ‖·‖1 and (·, ·)1 respectively. A general different inner product with a weight function and the corresponding norm will be denoted by (·, ·)0 and ‖ · ‖ respectively. In the first part of this article (Sects. 2 and 3) w...

Sparsity is an important modeling tool that expands the applicability of convex formulations for data analysis, however it also creates significant challenges for efficient algorithm design. In this paper we investigate the generalized conditional gradient (GCG) algorithm for solving sparse optimization problems—demonstrating that, with some enhancements, it can provide a more efficient alterna...

Gradient expansions in quantum transport equations of a Kadanoff–Baym form have been reexamined. We have realized that in a consistent approach the expansion should be performed also inside of the self–energy in the scattering integrals of these equations. In the first perturbation order this internal expansion gives new correction terms to the generalized Boltzman equation. These correction te...

This paper describes a Parallel Space Decomposition (PSD) technique for the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm. MADS extends Generalized Pattern Search for constrained nonsmooth optimization problems. The objective here is to solve larger problems more efficiently. The new method (PSD-MADS) is an asynchronous parallel algorithm in which the processes solve problems over subsets of var...

in present work, we have calculated the electronic properties including density of states and electron density for gan, inn and inxga1-xn  in wurtzite phase for x=0.5. the study is based on density functional theory with full potential linearized augmented plane wave method by generalized gradient approximation for calculating electronic properties. in this report we concluded that inxga1-xn ba...

The morphological gradient is a widely used edge detector for grey-level images in many applications. In this paper, we generalize the definition of the morphological gradient of the fuzzy mathematical morphology based on t-norms. Concretely, instead of defining the morphological gradient from the usual definitions of fuzzy dilation and erosion, where the minimum and the maximum are used, we de...

Variational analysis concerns the geometry and calculus of nonsmooth sets and functions, often viewed from an optimization perspective. Over several decades, variational analysis has matured into a powerful and elegant theory. One rich source of concrete examples involves the eigenvalues of symmetric and nonsymmetric matrices, sometimes deriving from dynamical or feedback control questions. Thi...

In previous work, the generalized pattern search (GPS) algorithm for linearly constrained (continuous) optimization was extended to mixed variable problems, in which some of the variables may be categorical. In another paper, the mesh adaptive direct search (MADS) algorithm was introduced as a generalization of GPS for problems with general nonlinear constrained. The convergence analyses of the...

A 10-parameter, range-separated hybrid (RSH), generalized gradient approximation (GGA) density functional with nonlocal correlation (VV10) is presented. Instead of truncating the B97-type power series inhomogeneity correction factors (ICF) for the exchange, same-spin correlation, and opposite-spin correlation functionals uniformly, all 16,383 combinations of the linear parameters up to fourth o...

The fundamental energy gap of a periodic solid distinguishes insulators from metals and characterizes low-energy single-electron excitations. However, the gap in the band structure of the exact multiplicative Kohn-Sham (KS) potential substantially underestimates the fundamental gap, a major limitation of KS density-functional theory. Here, we give a simple proof of a theorem: In generalized KS ...