PREFACE 1. CONVERGENT. Does the set of cyclic operators have a non-empty interior?... 2. WEIGHTED. Is every part of a weighted shift similar to a weighted shift?. . . . 3. INVARIANT. If an intransitive operator has an inverse, is its inverse also intransitive? 4. TRIANGULAR. Is every normal operator the sum of a diagonal operator and a compact one? 5. DILATED. Is every subnormal Toeplitz operat...

Two important goals of high-dimensional modeling are prediction and variable selection. In this article, we consider regularization with combined L1 and concave penalties, and study the sampling properties of the global optimum of the suggested method in ultra-high dimensional 10 settings. The L1-penalty provides the minimum regularization needed for removing noise variables in order to achieve...

In this paper, we introduce new definitions of L-fuzzy neighborhood systems, L-fuzzy interior operators and L-fuzzy closure operators. Three characterizations of the category L-FTOP of L-fuzzy topological spaces and their L-fuzzy continuous mappings are presented by means of the category L-FNS of L-fuzzy neighborhood spaces and their continuous mappings, the category L-FIS of L-fuzzy interior s...

In this paper we present a new approach for tightening upper bounds on the partition function. Our upper bounds are based on fractional covering bounds on the entropy function, and result in a concave program to compute these bounds and a convex program to tighten them. To solve these programs effectively for general region graphs we utilize the entropy barrier method, thus decomposing the orig...

Suppose that K is a convex polyhedron in the n-dimensional Euclidean space R. Suppose that the extreme points of K are P1, P2, . . . , Pm ( m ≥ n + 1). If P is an arbitrary interior point of K, then there exist vertices Pi1 , Pi2 , . . . , Pin+1 of K and a point Q of R n and a positive number r > 0 for which ||Pik − Q|| = r for 1 ≤ k ≤ n + 1 , ||Pj − Q|| ≤ r for 1 ≤ j ≤ m and P is an interior p...

Abstract. This paper provides a detailed analysis of a primal-dual interior-point method for PDE-constrained optimization. Considered are optimal control problems with control constraints in L. It is shown that the developed primal-dual interior-point method converges globally and locally superlinearly. Not only the easier L-setting is analyzed, but also a more involved L-analysis, q < ∞, is pr...

In this article, we develop automated inference methods for “local” parameters in a collection of convexity constrained models based on the natural tuning-free estimators. A canonical example is given by univariate convex regression model, which drawn function value, derivative at fixed interior point, and anti-mode function, widely used tuning-free, piecewise linear least squares estimator (LS...

A two-stage iterative scheme is proposed to handle a central problem of molecular dynamics, the computation of interior eigenvalues of large Hamiltonian matrices. The proposed method involves an initial propagation process for a time-dependent wave operator which is then inserted in an iterative process (R.D.W.A. or S.C.M.) to yield the exact stationary wave operator. The merits of the wave ope...

A complex network of Euler-Bernoulli beams is studied in this paper. As for this network, the boundary vertices are clamped, the displacements of the structure are continuous but the rotations of different beams are not continuous at the interior vertices. The feedback controller are designed at the interior nodes to stabilize the elastic system. The well-posed-ness of the closed loop system is...

Four primal discontinuous Galerkin methods are applied to solve reactive transport problems, namely, Oden-Babuška-Baumann DG (OBB-DG), non-symmetric interior penalty Galerkin (NIPG), symmetric interior penalty Galerkin (SIPG), and incomplete interior penalty Galerkin (IIPG). A unified a posteriori residual-type error estimation is derived explicitly for these methods. From the computed solution...