@masterthesis{Engelhardt2021, type = {Bachelor Thesis}, author = {Engelhardt, Max Angel Ronan}, title = {Zwischen Simulation und Beweis - eine mathematische Analyse des Bienaym{\´e}-Galton-Watson-Prozesses und sein Einsatz innerhalb des Mathematikunterrichts}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-52447}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-524474}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {117}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Die Bienaym{\´e}-Galton-Watson Prozesse k{\"o}nnen f{\"u}r die Untersuchung von speziellen und sich entwickelnden Populationen verwendet werden. Die Populationen umfassen Individuen, welche sich identisch, zuf{\"a}llig, selbstst{\"a}ndig und unabh{\"a}ngig voneinander fortpflanzen und die jeweils nur eine Generation existieren. Die n-te Generation ergibt sich als zuf{\"a}llige Summe der Individuen der (n-1)-ten Generation. Die Relevanz dieser Prozesse begr{\"u}ndet sich innerhalb der Historie und der inner- und außermathematischen Bedeutung. Die Geschichte der Bienaym{\´e}-Galton-Watson-Prozesse wird anhand der Entwicklung des Konzeptes bis heute dargestellt. Dabei werden die Wissenschaftler:innen verschiedener Disziplinen angef{\"u}hrt, die Erkenntnisse zu dem Themengebiet beigetragen und das Konzept in ihren Fachbereichen angef{\"u}hrt haben. Somit ergibt sich die außermathematische Signifikanz. Des Weiteren erh{\"a}lt man die innermathematische Bedeutsamkeit mittels des Konzeptes der Verzweigungsprozesse, welches auf die Bienaym{\´e}-Galton-Watson Prozesse zur{\"u}ckzuf{\"u}hren ist. Die Verzweigungsprozesse stellen eines der aussagekr{\"a}ftigsten Modelle f{\"u}r die Beschreibung des Populationswachstums dar. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus besteht die derzeitige Wichtigkeit durch die Anwendungsm{\"o}glichkeit der Verzweigungsprozesse und der Bienaym{\´e}-Galton-Watson Prozesse innerhalb der Epidemiologie. Es werden die Ebola- und die Corona-Pandemie als Anwendungsfelder angef{\"u}hrt. Die Prozesse dienen als Entscheidungsst{\"u}tze f{\"u}r die Politik und erm{\"o}glichen Aussagen {\"u}ber die Auswirkungen von Maßnahmen bez{\"u}glich der Pandemien. Neben den Prozessen werden ebenfalls der bedingte Erwartungswert bez{\"u}glich diskreter Zufallsvariablen, die wahrscheinlichkeitserzeugende Funktion und die zuf{\"a}llige Summe eingef{\"u}hrt. Die Konzepte vereinfachen die Beschreibung der Prozesse und bilden somit die Grundlage der Betrachtungen. Außerdem werden die ben{\"o}tigten und weiterf{\"u}hrenden Eigenschaften der grundlegenden Themengebiete und der Prozesse aufgef{\"u}hrt und bewiesen. Das Kapitel erreicht seinen H{\"o}hepunkt bei dem Beweis des Kritikalit{\"a}tstheorems, wodurch eine Aussage {\"u}ber das Aussterben des Prozesses in verschiedenen F{\"a}llen und somit {\"u}ber die Aussterbewahrscheinlichkeit get{\"a}tigt werden kann. Die F{\"a}lle werden anhand der zu erwartenden Anzahl an Nachkommen eines Individuums unterschieden. Es zeigt sich, dass ein Prozess bei einer zu erwartenden Anzahl kleiner gleich Eins mit Sicherheit ausstirbt und bei einer Anzahl gr{\"o}ßer als Eins, die Population nicht in jedem Fall aussterben muss. Danach werden einzelne Beispiele, wie der linear fractional case, die Population von Fibroblasten (Bindegewebszellen) von M{\"a}usen und die Entstehungsfragestellung der Prozesse, angef{\"u}hrt. Diese werden mithilfe der erlangten Ergebnisse untersucht und einige ausgew{\"a}hlte zuf{\"a}llige Dynamiken werden im nachfolgenden Kapitel simuliert. Die Simulationen erfolgen durch ein in Python erstelltes Programm und werden mithilfe der Inversionsmethode realisiert. Die Simulationen stellen beispielhaft die Entwicklungen in den verschiedenen Kritikalit{\"a}tsf{\"a}llen der Prozesse dar. Zudem werden die H{\"a}ufigkeiten der einzelnen Populationsgr{\"o}ßen in Form von Histogrammen angebracht. Dabei l{\"a}sst sich der Unterschied zwischen den einzelnen F{\"a}llen best{\"a}tigen und es wird die Anwendungsm{\"o}glichkeit der Bienaym{\´e}-Galton-Watson Prozesse bei komplexeren Problemen deutlich. Histogramme bekr{\"a}ftigen, dass die einzelnen Populationsgr{\"o}ßen nur endlich oft vorkommen. Diese Aussage wurde von Galton aufgeworfen und in der Extinktions-Explosions-Dichotomie verwendet. Die dargestellten Erkenntnisse {\"u}ber das Themengebiet und die Betrachtung des Konzeptes werden mit einer didaktischen Analyse abgeschlossen. Die Untersuchung beinhaltet die Ber{\"u}cksichtigung der Fundamentalen Ideen, der Fundamentalen Ideen der Stochastik und der Leitidee „Daten und Zufall". Dabei ergibt sich, dass in Abh{\"a}ngigkeit der gew{\"a}hlten Perspektive die Anwendung der Bienaym{\´e}-Galton-Watson Prozesse innerhalb der Schule plausibel ist und von Vorteil f{\"u}r die Sch{\"u}ler:innen sein kann. F{\"u}r die Behandlung wird exemplarisch der Rahmenlehrplan f{\"u}r Berlin und Brandenburg analysiert und mit dem Kernlehrplan Nordrhein-Westfalens verglichen. Die Konzeption des Lehrplans aus Berlin und Brandenburg l{\"a}sst nicht den Schluss zu, dass die Bienaym{\´e}-Galton-Watson Prozesse angewendet werden sollten. Es l{\"a}sst sich feststellen, dass die zugrunde liegende Leitidee nicht vollumf{\"a}nglich mit manchen Fundamentalen Ideen der Stochastik vereinbar ist. Somit w{\"u}rde eine Modifikation hinsichtlich einer st{\"a}rkeren Orientierung des Lehrplans an den Fundamentalen Ideen die Anwendung der Prozesse erm{\"o}glichen. Die Aussage wird durch die Betrachtung und {\"U}bertragung eines nordrhein-westf{\"a}lischen Unterrichtsentwurfes f{\"u}r stochastische Prozesse auf die Bienaym{\´e}-Galton-Watson Prozesse unterst{\"u}tzt. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus werden eine Concept Map und ein Vernetzungspentagraph nach von der Bank konzipiert um diesen Aspekt hervorzuheben.}, language = {de} } @article{SaynischWagnerBaerenzungHornschildetal.2021, author = {Saynisch-Wagner, Jan and B{\"a}renzung, Julien and Hornschild, Aaron and Irrgang, Christopher and Thomas, Maik}, title = {Tide-induced magnetic signals and their errors derived from CHAMP and Swarm satellite magnetometer observations}, series = {Earth, planets and space : EPS}, volume = {73}, journal = {Earth, planets and space : EPS}, number = {1}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {1880-5981}, doi = {10.1186/s40623-021-01557-3}, pages = {11}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Satellite-measured tidal magnetic signals are of growing importance. These fields are mainly used to infer Earth's mantle conductivity, but also to derive changes in the oceanic heat content. We present a new Kalman filter-based method to derive tidal magnetic fields from satellite magnetometers: KALMAG. The method's advantage is that it allows to study a precisely estimated posterior error covariance matrix. We present the results of a simultaneous estimation of the magnetic signals of 8 major tides from 17 years of Swarm and CHAMP data. For the first time, robustly derived posterior error distributions are reported along with the reported tidal magnetic fields. The results are compared to other estimates that are either based on numerical forward models or on satellite inversions of the same data. For all comparisons, maximal differences and the corresponding globally averaged RMSE are reported. We found that the inter-product differences are comparable with the KALMAG-based errors only in a global mean sense. Here, all approaches give values of the same order, e.g., 0.09 nT-0.14 nT for M2. Locally, the KALMAG posterior errors are up to one order smaller than the inter-product differences, e.g., 0.12 nT vs. 0.96 nT for M2.}, language = {en} } @article{CozzoniMaibaumHamm2021, author = {Cozzoni, Barbara and Maibaum, Michael and Hamm, Maximilian}, title = {Thermal analysis and constraints for the MASCOT landing site selection on the asteroid Ryugu}, series = {Planetary and space science}, volume = {205}, journal = {Planetary and space science}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0032-0633}, doi = {10.1016/j.pss.2021.105286}, pages = {11}, year = {2021}, abstract = {In June 2018, after 4 years of cruise, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa2 [1-Watanabe S. et al.: Hayabusa2 Mission Overview. (2017)] reached the Near-Earth Asteroid (162173) Ryugu. Hayabusa2 carried a small Lander named MASCOT (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout) [2-Ho T. M. et al.: MASCOT-The Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout onboard the Hayabusa2 mission. (2017)], jointly developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the French Space Agency (CNES), to investigate Ryugu's surface structure, composition and physical properties including its thermal behaviour and magnetization in-situ. The Microgravity User Support Centre (DLR-MUSC) in Cologne was in charge of providing all thermal conditions and constraints necessary for the selection of the final landing site and for the final operations of the Lander MASCOT on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. This article provides a comprehensive assessment of these thermal conditions and constraints, based on predictions performed with the Thermal Mathematical Model (TMM) of MASCOT using different asteroid surface thermal models, ephemeris data for approach as well as descent and hopping trajectories, the related operation sequences and scenarios and the possible environmental conditions driven by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. A comparison with the real telemetry data confirms the analysis and provides further information about the asteroid characteristics.}, language = {en} } @article{KleinRosenberger2021, author = {Klein, Markus and Rosenberger, Elke}, title = {The tunneling effect for Schr{\"o}dinger operators on a vector bundle}, series = {Analysis and mathematical physics}, volume = {11}, journal = {Analysis and mathematical physics}, number = {2}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing AG}, address = {Cham (ZG)}, issn = {1664-2368}, doi = {10.1007/s13324-021-00485-5}, pages = {35}, year = {2021}, abstract = {In the semiclassical limit (h) over bar -> 0, we analyze a class of self-adjoint Schrodinger operators H-(h) over bar = (h) over bar L-2 + (h) over barW + V center dot id(E) acting on sections of a vector bundle E over an oriented Riemannian manifold M where L is a Laplace type operator, W is an endomorphism field and the potential energy V has non-degenerate minima at a finite number of points m(1),... m(r) is an element of M, called potential wells. Using quasimodes of WKB-type near m(j) for eigenfunctions associated with the low lying eigenvalues of H-(h) over bar, we analyze the tunneling effect, i.e. the splitting between low lying eigenvalues, which e.g. arises in certain symmetric configurations. Technically, we treat the coupling between different potential wells by an interaction matrix and we consider the case of a single minimal geodesic (with respect to the associated Agmon metric) connecting two potential wells and the case of a submanifold of minimal geodesics of dimension l + 1. This dimension l determines the polynomial prefactor for exponentially small eigenvalue splitting.}, language = {en} } @article{DeOliveiraGomesHoegele2021, author = {De Oliveira Gomes, Andr{\´e} and H{\"o}gele, Michael Anton}, title = {The Kramers problem for SDEs driven by small, accelerated L{\´e}vy noise with exponentially light jumps}, series = {Stochastics and dynamics}, volume = {21}, journal = {Stochastics and dynamics}, number = {04}, publisher = {World Scientific}, address = {Singapore}, issn = {0219-4937}, doi = {10.1142/S0219493721500192}, pages = {44}, year = {2021}, abstract = {We establish Freidlin-Wentzell results for a nonlinear ordinary differential equation starting close to the stable state 0, say, subject to a perturbation by a stochastic integral which is driven by an epsilon-small and (1/epsilon)-accelerated Levy process with exponentially light jumps. For this purpose, we derive a large deviations principle for the stochastically perturbed system using the weak convergence approach developed by Budhiraja, Dupuis, Maroulas and collaborators in recent years. In the sequel, we solve the associated asymptotic first escape problem from the bounded neighborhood of 0 in the limit as epsilon -> 0 which is also known as the Kramers problem in the literature.}, language = {en} } @article{MatzkaStolleYamazakietal.2021, author = {Matzka, J{\"u}rgen and Stolle, Claudia and Yamazaki, Yosuke and Bronkalla, Oliver and Morschhauser, Achim}, title = {The geomagnetic Kp index and derived indices of geomagnetic activity}, series = {Space weather : the international journal of research and applications}, volume = {19}, journal = {Space weather : the international journal of research and applications}, number = {5}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {New York}, issn = {1542-7390}, doi = {10.1029/2020SW002641}, pages = {21}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The geomagnetic Kp index is one of the most extensively used indices of geomagnetic activity, both for scientific and operational purposes. This article reviews the properties of the Kp index and provides a reference for users of the Kp index and associated data products as derived and distributed by the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. The near real-time production of the nowcast Kp index is of particular interest for space weather services and here we describe and evaluate its current setup.}, language = {en} } @article{Baer2021, author = {B{\"a}r, Christian}, title = {The Faddeev-LeVerrier algorithm and the Pfaffian}, series = {Linear algebra and its applications}, volume = {630}, journal = {Linear algebra and its applications}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {New York}, issn = {0024-3795}, doi = {10.1016/j.laa.2021.07.023}, pages = {39 -- 55}, year = {2021}, abstract = {We adapt the Faddeev-LeVerrier algorithm for the computation of characteristic polynomials to the computation of the Pfaffian of a skew-symmetric matrix. This yields a very simple, easy to implement and parallelize algorithm of computational cost O(n(beta+1)) where nis the size of the matrix and O(n(beta)) is the cost of multiplying n x n-matrices, beta is an element of [2, 2.37286). We compare its performance to that of other algorithms and show how it can be used to compute the Euler form of a Riemannian manifold using computer algebra.}, language = {en} } @article{GottwaldReich2021, author = {Gottwald, Georg A. and Reich, Sebastian}, title = {Supervised learning from noisy observations}, series = {Physica : D, Nonlinear phenomena}, volume = {423}, journal = {Physica : D, Nonlinear phenomena}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0167-2789}, doi = {10.1016/j.physd.2021.132911}, pages = {15}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Data-driven prediction and physics-agnostic machine-learning methods have attracted increased interest in recent years achieving forecast horizons going well beyond those to be expected for chaotic dynamical systems. In a separate strand of research data-assimilation has been successfully used to optimally combine forecast models and their inherent uncertainty with incoming noisy observations. The key idea in our work here is to achieve increased forecast capabilities by judiciously combining machine-learning algorithms and data assimilation. We combine the physics-agnostic data -driven approach of random feature maps as a forecast model within an ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation procedure. The machine-learning model is learned sequentially by incorporating incoming noisy observations. We show that the obtained forecast model has remarkably good forecast skill while being computationally cheap once trained. Going beyond the task of forecasting, we show that our method can be used to generate reliable ensembles for probabilistic forecasting as well as to learn effective model closure in multi-scale systems. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.}, language = {en} } @misc{Moehring2021, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {M{\"o}hring, Jan}, title = {Stochastic inversion for core field modeling using satellite data}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-49807}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-498072}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {vii, 55}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Magnetfeldmodellierung mit Kugelfl{\"a}chenfunktionen basiert auf der Inversion nach hunderten bis tausenden von Parametern. Dieses hochdimensionale Problem kann grunds{\"a}tzlich als ein Optimierungsproblem formuliert werden, bei dem ein globales Minimum einer gewissen Zielfunktion berechnet werden soll. Um dieses Problem zu l{\"o}sen, gibt es eine Reihe bekannter Ans{\"a}tze, dazu z{\"a}hlen etwa gradientenbasierte Verfahren oder die Methode der kleinsten Quadrate und deren Varianten. Jede dieser Methoden hat verschiedene Vor- und Nachteile, beispielsweise bez{\"u}glich der Anwendbarkeit auf nicht-differenzierbare Funktionen oder der Laufzeit zugeh{\"o}riger Algorithmen. In dieser Arbeit verfolgen wir das Ziel, einen Algorithmus zu finden, der schneller als die etablierten Verfahren ist und sich auch f{\"u}r nichtlineare Probleme anwenden l{\"a}sst. Solche nichtlinearen Probleme treten beispielsweise bei der Absch{\"a}tzung von Euler-Winkeln oder bei der Verwendung der robusteren L_1-Norm auf. Dazu untersuchen wir die Anwendbarkeit stochastischer Optimierungsverfahren aus der CMAES-Familie auf die Modellierung des geomagnetischen Feldes des Erdkerns. Es werden sowohl die Grundlagen der Kernfeldmodellierung und deren Parametrisierung anhand einiger Beispiele aus der Literatur besprochen, als auch die theoretischen Hintergr{\"u}nde der stochastischen Verfahren gegeben. Ein CMAES-Algorithmus wurde erfolgreich angewendet, um Daten der Swarm-Satellitenmission zu invertieren und daraus das Magnetfeldmodell EvoMag abzuleiten. EvoMag zeigt gute {\"U}bereinstimmung mit etablierten Modellen, sowie mit Observatoriumsdaten aus Niemegk. Wir thematisieren einige beobachtete Schwierigkeiten und pr{\"a}sentieren und diskutieren die Ergebnisse unserer Modellierung.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Oancea2021, author = {Oancea, Marius-Adrian}, title = {Spin Hall effects in general relativity}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-50229}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-502293}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {vii, 123}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The propagation of test fields, such as electromagnetic, Dirac or linearized gravity, on a fixed spacetime manifold is often studied by using the geometrical optics approximation. In the limit of infinitely high frequencies, the geometrical optics approximation provides a conceptual transition between the test field and an effective point-particle description. The corresponding point-particles, or wave rays, coincide with the geodesics of the underlying spacetime. For most astrophysical applications of interest, such as the observation of celestial bodies, gravitational lensing, or the observation of cosmic rays, the geometrical optics approximation and the effective point-particle description represent a satisfactory theoretical model. However, the geometrical optics approximation gradually breaks down as test fields of finite frequency are considered. In this thesis, we consider the propagation of test fields on spacetime, beyond the leading-order geometrical optics approximation. By performing a covariant Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin analysis for test fields, we show how higher-order corrections to the geometrical optics approximation can be considered. The higher-order corrections are related to the dynamics of the spin internal degree of freedom of the considered test field. We obtain an effective point-particle description, which contains spin-dependent corrections to the geodesic motion obtained using geometrical optics. This represents a covariant generalization of the well-known spin Hall effect, usually encountered in condensed matter physics and in optics. Our analysis is applied to electromagnetic and massive Dirac test fields, but it can easily be extended to other fields, such as linearized gravity. In the electromagnetic case, we present several examples where the gravitational spin Hall effect of light plays an important role. These include the propagation of polarized light rays on black hole spacetimes and cosmological spacetimes, as well as polarization-dependent effects on the shape of black hole shadows. Furthermore, we show that our effective point-particle equations for polarized light rays reproduce well-known results, such as the spin Hall effect of light in an inhomogeneous medium, and the relativistic Hall effect of polarized electromagnetic wave packets encountered in Minkowski spacetime.}, language = {en} } @article{WormellReich2021, author = {Wormell, Caroline L. and Reich, Sebastian}, title = {Spectral convergence of diffusion maps}, series = {SIAM journal on numerical analysis / Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics}, volume = {59}, journal = {SIAM journal on numerical analysis / Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics}, number = {3}, publisher = {Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics}, address = {Philadelphia}, issn = {0036-1429}, doi = {10.1137/20M1344093}, pages = {1687 -- 1734}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Diffusion maps is a manifold learning algorithm widely used for dimensionality reduction. Using a sample from a distribution, it approximates the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of associated Laplace-Beltrami operators. Theoretical bounds on the approximation error are, however, generally much weaker than the rates that are seen in practice. This paper uses new approaches to improve the error bounds in the model case where the distribution is supported on a hypertorus. For the data sampling (variance) component of the error we make spatially localized compact embedding estimates on certain Hardy spaces; we study the deterministic (bias) component as a perturbation of the Laplace-Beltrami operator's associated PDE and apply relevant spectral stability results. Using these approaches, we match long-standing pointwise error bounds for both the spectral data and the norm convergence of the operator discretization. We also introduce an alternative normalization for diffusion maps based on Sinkhorn weights. This normalization approximates a Langevin diffusion on the sample and yields a symmetric operator approximation. We prove that it has better convergence compared with the standard normalization on flat domains, and we present a highly efficient rigorous algorithm to compute the Sinkhorn weights.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Perera2021, author = {Perera, Upeksha}, title = {Solutions of direct and inverse Sturm-Liouville problems}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-53006}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-530064}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {x, 109}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Lie group method in combination with Magnus expansion is utilized to develop a universal method applicable to solving a Sturm-Liouville Problem (SLP) of any order with arbitrary boundary conditions. It is shown that the method has ability to solve direct regular and some singular SLPs of even orders (tested up to order eight), with a mix of boundary conditions (including non-separable and finite singular endpoints), accurately and efficiently. The present technique is successfully applied to overcome the difficulties in finding suitable sets of eigenvalues so that the inverse SLP problem can be effectively solved. Next, a concrete implementation to the inverse Sturm-Liouville problem algorithm proposed by Barcilon (1974) is provided. Furthermore, computational feasibility and applicability of this algorithm to solve inverse Sturm-Liouville problems of order n=2,4 is verified successfully. It is observed that the method is successful even in the presence of significant noise, provided that the assumptions of the algorithm are satisfied. In conclusion, this work provides methods that can be adapted successfully for solving a direct (regular/singular) or inverse SLP of an arbitrary order with arbitrary boundary conditions.}, language = {en} } @article{EngbertRabeKliegletal.2021, author = {Engbert, Ralf and Rabe, Maximilian Michael and Kliegl, Reinhold and Reich, Sebastian}, title = {Sequential data assimilation of the stochastic SEIR epidemic model for regional COVID-19 dynamics}, series = {Bulletin of mathematical biology : official journal of the Society for Mathematical Biology}, volume = {83}, journal = {Bulletin of mathematical biology : official journal of the Society for Mathematical Biology}, number = {1}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {New York}, issn = {0092-8240}, doi = {10.1007/s11538-020-00834-8}, pages = {16}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Newly emerging pandemics like COVID-19 call for predictive models to implement precisely tuned responses to limit their deep impact on society. Standard epidemic models provide a theoretically well-founded dynamical description of disease incidence. For COVID-19 with infectiousness peaking before and at symptom onset, the SEIR model explains the hidden build-up of exposed individuals which creates challenges for containment strategies. However, spatial heterogeneity raises questions about the adequacy of modeling epidemic outbreaks on the level of a whole country. Here, we show that by applying sequential data assimilation to the stochastic SEIR epidemic model, we can capture the dynamic behavior of outbreaks on a regional level. Regional modeling, with relatively low numbers of infected and demographic noise, accounts for both spatial heterogeneity and stochasticity. Based on adapted models, short-term predictions can be achieved. Thus, with the help of these sequential data assimilation methods, more realistic epidemic models are within reach.}, language = {en} } @article{RoosOtoba2021, author = {Roos, Saskia and Otoba, Nobuhiko}, title = {Scalar curvature and the multiconformal class of a direct product Riemannian manifold}, series = {Geometriae dedicata}, volume = {214}, journal = {Geometriae dedicata}, number = {1}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {0046-5755}, doi = {10.1007/s10711-021-00636-9}, pages = {801 -- 829}, year = {2021}, abstract = {For a closed, connected direct product Riemannian manifold (M, g) = (M-1, g(1)) x ... x (M-l, g(l)), we define its multiconformal class [[g]] as the totality {integral(2)(1)g(1) circle plus center dot center dot center dot integral(2)(l)g(l)} of all Riemannian metrics obtained from multiplying the metric gi of each factor Mi by a positive function fi on the total space M. A multiconformal class [[ g]] contains not only all warped product type deformations of g but also the whole conformal class [(g) over tilde] of every (g) over tilde is an element of[[ g]]. In this article, we prove that [[g]] contains a metric of positive scalar curvature if and only if the conformal class of some factor (Mi, gi) does, under the technical assumption dim M-i = 2. We also show that, even in the case where every factor (M-i, g(i)) has positive scalar curvature, [[g]] contains a metric of scalar curvature constantly equal to -1 and with arbitrarily large volume, provided l = 2 and dim M = 3.}, language = {en} } @article{FischerKeller2021, author = {Fischer, Florian and Keller, Matthias}, title = {Riesz decompositions for Schr{\"o}dinger operators on graphs}, series = {Journal of mathematical analysis and applications}, volume = {495}, journal = {Journal of mathematical analysis and applications}, number = {1}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0022-247X}, doi = {10.1016/j.jmaa.2020.124674}, pages = {22}, year = {2021}, abstract = {We study superharmonic functions for Schrodinger operators on general weighted graphs. Specifically, we prove two decompositions which both go under the name Riesz decomposition in the literature. The first one decomposes a superharmonic function into a harmonic and a potential part. The second one decomposes a superharmonic function into a sum of superharmonic functions with certain upper bounds given by prescribed superharmonic functions. As application we show a Brelot type theorem.}, language = {en} } @article{GarmendiaZambon2021, author = {Garmendia, Alfonso and Zambon, Marco}, title = {Quotients of singular foliations and Lie 2-group actions}, series = {Journal of noncommutative geometry}, volume = {15}, journal = {Journal of noncommutative geometry}, number = {4}, publisher = {EMS Press, an imprint of the European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH, Institut f{\"u}r Mathematik, Technische Universit{\"a}t Berlin}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {1661-6952}, doi = {10.4171/JNCG/434}, pages = {1251 -- 1283}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Androulidakis-Skandalis (2009) showed that every singular foliation has an associated topological groupoid, called holonomy groupoid. In this note, we exhibit some functorial properties of this assignment: if a foliated manifold (M, FM ) is the quotient of a foliated manifold (P, FP ) along a surjective submersion with connected fibers, then the same is true for the corresponding holonomy groupoids. For quotients by a Lie group action, an analogue statement holds under suitable assumptions, yielding a Lie 2-group action on the holonomy groupoid.}, language = {en} } @article{HetheyHartungWangorschetal.2021, author = {Hethey, Christoph Philipp and Hartung, Niklas and Wangorsch, Gaby and Weisser, Karin and Huisinga, Wilhelm}, title = {Physiology-based toxicokinetic modelling of aluminium in rat and man}, series = {Archives of toxicology : official journal of EUROTOX}, volume = {95}, journal = {Archives of toxicology : official journal of EUROTOX}, number = {9}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin ; Heidelberg}, issn = {0340-5761}, doi = {10.1007/s00204-021-03107-y}, pages = {2977 -- 3000}, year = {2021}, abstract = {A sufficient quantitative understanding of aluminium (Al) toxicokinetics (TK) in man is still lacking, although highly desirable for risk assessment of Al exposure. Baseline exposure and the risk of contamination severely limit the feasibility of TK studies administering the naturally occurring isotope Al-27, both in animals and man. These limitations are absent in studies with Al-26 as a tracer, but tissue data are limited to animal studies. A TK model capable of inter-species translation to make valid predictions of Al levels in humans-especially in toxicological relevant tissues like bone and brain-is urgently needed. Here, we present: (i) a curated dataset which comprises all eligible studies with single doses of Al-26 tracer administered as citrate or chloride salts orally and/or intravenously to rats and humans, including ultra-long-term kinetic profiles for plasma, blood, liver, spleen, muscle, bone, brain, kidney, and urine up to 150 weeks; and (ii) the development of a physiology-based (PB) model for Al TK after intravenous and oral administration of aqueous Al citrate and Al chloride solutions in rats and humans. Based on the comprehensive curated Al-26 dataset, we estimated substance-dependent parameters within a non-linear mixed-effect modelling context. The model fitted the heterogeneous Al-26 data very well and was successfully validated against datasets in rats and humans. The presented PBTK model for Al, based on the most extensive and diverse dataset of Al exposure to date, constitutes a major advancement in the field, thereby paving the way towards a more quantitative risk assessment in humans.}, language = {en} } @article{DeneckeHounnon2021, author = {Denecke, Klaus-Dieter and Hounnon, Hippolyte}, title = {Partial Menger algebras of terms}, series = {Asian-European journal of mathematics}, volume = {14}, journal = {Asian-European journal of mathematics}, number = {06}, publisher = {World Scientific}, address = {Singapore}, issn = {1793-5571}, doi = {10.1142/S1793557121500923}, pages = {14}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The superposition operation S-n,S-A, n >= 1, n is an element of N, maps to each (n + 1)-tuple of n-ary operations on a set A an n-ary operation on A and satisfies the so-called superassociative law, a generalization of the associative law. The corresponding algebraic structures are Menger algebras of rank n. A partial algebra of type (n + 1) which satisfies the superassociative law as weak identity is said to be a partial Menger algebra of rank n. As a generalization of linear terms we define r-terms as terms where each variable occurs at most r-times. It will be proved that n-ary r-terms form partial Menger algebras of rank n. In this paper, some algebraic properties of partial Menger algebras such as generating systems, homomorphic images and freeness are investigated. As generalization of hypersubstitutions and linear hypersubstitutions we consider r-hypersubstitutions.U}, language = {en} } @article{RedmannFreitag2021, author = {Redmann, Martin and Freitag, Melina A.}, title = {Optimization based model order reduction for stochastic systems}, series = {Applied mathematics and computation}, volume = {398}, journal = {Applied mathematics and computation}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {New York}, issn = {0096-3003}, doi = {10.1016/j.amc.2020.125783}, pages = {18}, year = {2021}, abstract = {In this paper, we bring together the worlds of model order reduction for stochastic linear systems and H-2-optimal model order reduction for deterministic systems. In particular, we supplement and complete the theory of error bounds for model order reduction of stochastic differential equations. With these error bounds, we establish a link between the output error for stochastic systems (with additive and multiplicative noise) and modified versions of the H-2-norm for both linear and bilinear deterministic systems. When deriving the respective optimality conditions for minimizing the error bounds, we see that model order reduction techniques related to iterative rational Krylov algorithms (IRKA) are very natural and effective methods for reducing the dimension of large-scale stochastic systems with additive and/or multiplicative noise. We apply modified versions of (linear and bilinear) IRKA to stochastic linear systems and show their efficiency in numerical experiments.}, language = {en} } @article{SchickSeyedhosseini2021, author = {Schick, Thomas and Seyedhosseini, Mehran}, title = {On an index theorem of Chang, Weinberger and Yu}, series = {M{\"u}nster journal of mathematics}, volume = {14}, journal = {M{\"u}nster journal of mathematics}, number = {1}, publisher = {WWU, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik}, address = {M{\"u}nster}, issn = {1867-5778}, doi = {10.17879/59019522628}, pages = {123 -- 154}, year = {2021}, abstract = {In this paper we prove a strengthening of a theorem of Chang, Weinberger and Yu on obstructions to the existence of positive scalar curvature metrics on compact manifolds with boundary. They construct a relative index for the Dirac operator, which lives in a relative K-theory group, measuring the difference between the fundamental group of the boundary and of the full manifold. Whenever the Riemannian metric has product structure and positive scalar curvature near the boundary, one can define an absolute index of the Dirac operator taking value in the K-theory of the C*-algebra of fundamental group of the full manifold. This index depends on the metric near the boundary. We prove that (a slight variation of) the relative index of Chang, Weinberger and Yu is the image of this absolute index under the canonical map of K-theory groups. This has the immediate corollary that positive scalar curvature on the whole manifold implies vanishing of the relative index, giving a conceptual and direct proof of the vanishing theorem of Chang, Weinberger and Yu (rather: a slight variation). To take the fundamental groups of the manifold and its boundary into account requires working with maximal C*-completions of the involved *-algebras. A significant part of this paper is devoted to foundational results regarding these completions. On the other hand, we introduce and propose a more conceptual and more geometric completion, which still has all the required functoriality.}, language = {en} }