‎In this paper‎, ‎first we study the weak and strong convergence of solutions to the‎ ‎following first order nonhomogeneous gradient system‎ ‎$$begin{cases}-x'(t)=nablaphi(x(t))+f(t), text{a.e. on} (0,infty)\‎‎x(0)=x_0in Hend{cases}$$ to a critical point of $phi$‎, ‎where‎ ‎$phi$ is a $C^1$ quasi-convex function on a real Hilbert space‎ ‎$H$ with ${rm Argmin}phineqvarnothing$ and $fin L^1(0...

LET K C R3 be a simple closed curve, and K be its convex hull. In [l], Almgren and Thurston define the (oriented) convex hull genus of K to be the minimal genus of an (oriented) surface contained in g and bounded by K. They give examples showing that even if K is unknotted both the orientable and non-orientable convex hull genus of K may be arbitrarily large. In 43 of this paper we show that th...

The expected volume of the convex hull of n random points chosen independently and uniformly on the d-dimensional torus is determined. In the 1860's J. J. Sylvester raised the problem of determining the expected area V$(C) of the convex hull of three points chosen independently and uniformly at random from a given plane convex body C of area one. For some special plane convex bodies the problem...

Let L = ∆ + Z for a C vector field Z on a complete Riemannian manifold possibly with a boundary. A number of transportation-cost inequalities on the path space for the (reflecting) L-diffusion process are proved to be equivalent to the curvature condition Ric−∇Z ≥ −K and the convexity of the boundary (if exists). These inequalities are new even for manifolds without boundary, and are partly ext...

We propose a new stochastic L-BFGS algorithm and prove a linear convergence rate for strongly convex and smooth functions. Our algorithm draws heavily from a recent stochastic variant of L-BFGS proposed in Byrd et al. (2014) as well as a recent approach to variance reduction for stochastic gradient descent from Johnson and Zhang (2013). We demonstrate experimentally that our algorithm performs ...

We consider a different L-Minkowski combination of compact sets in R than the one introduced by Firey and we prove an L-BrunnMinkowski inequality, p ∈ [0, 1], for a general class of measures called convex measures that includes log-concave measures, under unconditional assumptions. As a consequence, we derive concavity properties of the function t 7→ μ(t 1 pA), p ∈ (0, 1], for unconditional con...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: Graph algorithms Simple-path convexity Simple-path convex hull Totally balanced hypergraphs In a connected hypergraph a vertex set X is simple-path convex (sp-convex, for short) if either |X| 1 or X contains every vertex on every simple path between two vertices in X (Faber and Jamison, 1986 [7]), and the sp-convex hull of a vertex set X is the mi...