We tackle the classical two-sample spherical location problem for directional data by having recourse to the Le Cam methodology, habitually used in classical “linear” multivariate analysis. More precisely we construct locally and asymptotically optimal (in the maximin sense) parametric tests, which we then turn into semi-parametric ones in two distinct ways. First, by using a studentization arg...

We present a new method for analyzing the running time of parallel evolutionary algorithms with spatially structured populations. Based on the fitness-level method, it yields upper bounds on the expected parallel running time. This allows to rigorously estimate the speedup gained by parallelization. Tailored results are given for common migration topologies: ring graphs, torus graphs, hypercube...

We consider the homogenization of parabolic equations with large spatiallydependent potentials modeled as Gaussian random fields. We derive the homogenized equations in the limit of vanishing correlation length of the random potential. We characterize the leading effect in the random fluctuations and show that their spatial moments converge in law to Gaussian random variables. Both results hold...

Relative to the full compressible flow equations, sound-proof models filter acoustic waves while maintaining advection and internal waves. Two well-known sound-proof models, an anelastic model by Bannon and Durran’s pseudo-incompressible model, are shown here to be structurally very close to the full compressible flow equations. Essentially, the anelastic model is obtained by suppressing ∂tρ in...

We demonstrate that the QCD topological susceptibility nonperturbatively gets a significant contribution signaled by flavor-nonuniversal quark condensates at around pseudo-critical temperature of chiral crossover. It implies remarkable flavor breaking in axial anomaly as well theta vacuum high QCD, which are almost universal vacuum. A nontrivial is triggered nonperturbative thermal loop correct...

gas reservoirs with low permeability (k

the purpose of this paper is to study the strong convergence of an implicit iteration process with errors to a common fixed point for a finite family of asymptotically pseudocontractive mappings and nonexpansive mappings in normed linear spaces. the results in this paper improve and extend the corresponding results of xu and ori, zhou and chang, sun, yang and yu in some aspects.