@unpublished{BlanchardMuecke2016,
  author    = {Blanchard, Gilles and M{\"u}cke, Nicole},
  title     = {Optimal rates for regularization of statistical inverse learning problems},
  volume    = {5},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2193-6943},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-89782},
  pages     = {36},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {We consider a statistical inverse learning problem, where we observe the image of a function f through a linear operator A at i.i.d. random design points X_i, superposed with an additional noise. The distribution of the design points is unknown and can be very general. We analyze simultaneously the direct (estimation of Af) and the inverse (estimation of f) learning problems. In this general framework, we obtain strong and weak minimax optimal rates of convergence (as the number of observations n grows large) for a large class of spectral regularization methods over regularity classes defined through appropriate source conditions. This improves on or completes previous results obtained in related settings. The optimality of the obtained rates is shown not only in the exponent in n but also in the explicit dependence of the constant factor in the variance of the noise and the radius of the source condition set.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{MeraTarkhanov2016,
  author    = {Mera, Azal and Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich},
  title     = {The Neumann problem after Spencer},
  volume    = {5},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2193-6943},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90631},
  pages     = {21},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {When trying to extend the Hodge theory for elliptic complexes on compact closed manifolds to the case of compact manifolds with boundary one is led to a boundary value problem for the Laplacian of the complex which is usually referred to as Neumann problem. We study the Neumann problem for a larger class of sequences of differential operators on a compact manifold with boundary. These are sequences of small curvature, i.e., bearing the property that the composition of any two neighbouring operators has order less than two.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{MeraShlapunovTarkhanov2015,
  author    = {Mera, Azal and Shlapunov, Alexander and Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich},
  title     = {Navier-Stokes equations for elliptic complexes},
  volume    = {4},
  number    = {12},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2193-6943},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85592},
  pages     = {27},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {We continue our study of invariant forms of the classical equations of mathematical physics, such as the Maxwell equations or the Lam{\´e} system, on manifold with boundary. To this end we interpret them in terms of the de Rham complex at a certain step. On using the structure of the complex we get an insight to predict a degeneracy deeply encoded in the equations. In the present paper we develop an invariant approach to the classical Navier-Stokes equations.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Conforti2015,
  author    = {Conforti, Giovanni},
  title     = {Reciprocal classes of continuous time Markov Chains},
  volume    = {4},
  number    = {8},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2193-6943},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-78234},
  pages     = {198},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {In this work we study reciprocal classes of Markov walks on graphs. Given a continuous time reference Markov chain on a graph, its reciprocal class is the set of all probability measures which can be represented as a mixture of the bridges of the reference walks. We characterize reciprocal classes with two different approaches. With the first approach we found it as the set of solutions to duality formulae on path space, where the differential operators have the interpretation of the addition of infinitesimal random loops to the paths of the canonical process. With the second approach we look at short time asymptotics of bridges. Both approaches allow an explicit computation of reciprocal characteristics, which are divided into two families, the loop characteristics and the arc characteristics. They are those specific functionals of the generator of the reference chain which determine its reciprocal class. We look at the specific examples such as Cayley graphs, the hypercube and planar graphs. Finally we establish the first concentration of measure results for the bridges of a continuous time Markov chain based on the reciprocal characteristics.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{GibaliShoikhetTarkhanov2015,
  author    = {Gibali, Aviv and Shoikhet, David and Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich},
  title     = {On the convergence of continuous Newton method},
  volume    = {4},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2193-6943},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-81537},
  pages     = {15},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {In this paper we study the convergence of continuous Newton method for solving nonlinear equations with holomorphic mappings in complex Banach spaces. Our contribution is based on a recent progress in the geometric theory of spirallike functions. We prove convergence theorems and illustrate them by numerical simulations.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Cheng2016,
  author    = {Cheng, Yuan},
  title     = {Recursive state estimation in dynamical systems},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {84},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Mera2017,
  author    = {Mera, Azal Jaafar Musa},
  title     = {The Navier-Stokes equations for elliptic quasicomplexes},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-398495},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {101},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {The classical Navier-Stokes equations of hydrodynamics are usually written in terms of vector analysis. More promising is the formulation of these equations in the language of differential forms of degree one. In this way the study of Navier-Stokes equations includes the analysis of the de Rham complex. In particular, the Hodge theory for the de Rham complex enables one to eliminate the pressure from the equations. The Navier-Stokes equations constitute a parabolic system with a nonlinear term which makes sense only for one-forms. A simpler model of dynamics of incompressible viscous fluid is given by Burgers' equation. This work is aimed at the study of invariant structure of the Navier-Stokes equations which is closely related to the algebraic structure of the de Rham complex at step 1. To this end we introduce Navier-Stokes equations related to any elliptic quasicomplex of first order differential operators. These equations are quite similar to the classical Navier-Stokes equations including generalised velocity and pressure vectors. Elimination of the pressure from the generalised Navier-Stokes equations gives a good motivation for the study of the Neumann problem after Spencer for elliptic quasicomplexes. Such a study is also included in the work.We start this work by discussion of Lam{\´e} equations within the context of elliptic quasicomplexes on compact manifolds with boundary. The non-stationary Lam{\´e} equations form a hyperbolic system. However, the study of the first mixed problem for them gives a good experience to attack the linearised Navier-Stokes equations. On this base we describe a class of non-linear perturbations of the Navier-Stokes equations, for which the solvability results still hold.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{VallerianiRoellyKulik2017,
  author    = {Valleriani, Angelo and Roelly, Sylvie and Kulik, Alexei Michajlovič},
  title     = {Stochastic processes with applications in the natural sciences},
  series = {Lectures in pure and applied mathematics},
  booktitle = {Lectures in pure and applied mathematics},
  number    = {4},
  editor    = {Roelly, Sylvie and H{\"o}gele, Michael and Rafler, Mathias},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-414-2},
  issn      = {2199-4951},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-401802},
  pages     = {ix, 124},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {The interdisciplinary workshop STOCHASTIC PROCESSES WITH APPLICATIONS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES was held in Bogot{\´a}, at Universidad de los Andes from December 5 to December 9, 2016. It brought together researchers from Colombia, Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine, who communicated recent progress in the mathematical research related to stochastic processes with application in biophysics. The present volume collects three of the four courses held at this meeting by Angelo Valleriani, Sylvie Rœlly and Alexei Kulik. A particular aim of this collection is to inspire young scientists in setting up research goals within the wide scope of fields represented in this volume. Angelo Valleriani, PhD in high energy physics, is group leader of the team "Stochastic processes in complex and biological systems" from the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam. Sylvie Rœlly, Docteur en Math{\´e}matiques, is the head of the chair of Probability at the University of Potsdam. Alexei Kulik, Doctor of Sciences, is a Leading researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Muecke2017,
  author    = {M{\"u}cke, Nicole},
  title     = {Direct and inverse problems in machine learning},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-403479},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {159},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {We analyze an inverse noisy regression model under random design with the aim of estimating the unknown target function based on a given set of data, drawn according to some unknown probability distribution. Our estimators are all constructed by kernel methods, which depend on a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space structure using spectral regularization methods. A first main result establishes upper and lower bounds for the rate of convergence under a given source condition assumption, restricting the class of admissible distributions. But since kernel methods scale poorly when massive datasets are involved, we study one example for saving computation time and memory requirements in more detail. We show that Parallelizing spectral algorithms also leads to minimax optimal rates of convergence provided the number of machines is chosen appropriately. We emphasize that so far all estimators depend on the assumed a-priori smoothness of the target function and on the eigenvalue decay of the kernel covariance operator, which are in general unknown. To obtain good purely data driven estimators constitutes the problem of adaptivity which we handle for the single machine problem via a version of the Lepskii principle.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{PolkovnikovTarkhanov2017,
  author    = {Polkovnikov, Alexander and Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich},
  title     = {A Riemann-Hilbert problem for the Moisil-Teodorescu system},
  volume    = {6},
  number    = {3},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397036},
  pages     = {31},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {In a bounded domain with smooth boundary in R^3 we consider the stationary Maxwell equations for a function u with values in R^3 subject to a nonhomogeneous condition (u,v)_x = u_0 on the boundary, where v is a given vector field and u_0 a function on the boundary. We specify this problem within the framework of the Riemann-Hilbert boundary value problems for the Moisil-Teodorescu system. This latter is proved to satisfy the Shapiro-Lopaniskij condition if an only if the vector v is at no point tangent to the boundary. The Riemann-Hilbert problem for the Moisil-Teodorescu system fails to possess an adjoint boundary value problem with respect to the Green formula, which satisfies the Shapiro-Lopatinskij condition. We develop the construction of Green formula to get a proper concept of adjoint boundary value problem.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Jende2018,
  author    = {Jende, Alexander},
  title     = {On the characterization of particular orthogroups by disjunctions of identities},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {112},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {In this thesis, we discuss the characterization of orthogroups by so-called disjunctions of identities. The orthogroups are a subclass of the class of completely regular semigroups, a generalization of the concept of a group. Thus there is for all elements of an orthogroup some kind of an inverse element such that both elements commute. Based on a fundamental result by A.H. Clifford, every completely regular semigroup is a semilattice of completely simple semigroups. This allows the description the gross structure of such semigroup. In particular every orthogroup is a semilattice of rectangular groups which are isomorphic to direct products of rectangular bands and groups. Semilattices of rectangular groups coming from various classes are characterized using the concept of an alternative variety, a generalization of the classical idea of a variety by Birkhoff. After starting with some fundamental definitions and results concerning semigroups, we introduce the concept of disjunctions of identities and summarize some necessary properties. In particular we present some disjunction of identities which is sufficient for a semigroup for being completely regular. Furthermore we derive from this identity some statements concerning Rees matrix semigroups, a possible representation of completely simple semigroups. A main result of this thesis is the general description of disjunctions of identities such that a completely regular semigroup satisfying the described identity is a semilattice of left groups (right groups / groups). In this case the completely regular semigroup is an orthogroup. Furthermore we define various classes of rectangular groups such that there is an exponent taken from a set of pairwise coprime positive integers. An important result is the characterization of the class of all semilattices of particular rectangular groups (taken from the classes defined before) using a set-theoretic minimal set of disjunctions of identities. Additionally we investigate semilattices of groups (so-called Clifford semigroups). For this purpose we consider abelian groups of particular exponents and prove some well-known results from the theory of Clifford semigroups in an alternative way applying the concept of disjunctions of identities. As a practical application of the results concerning semilattices of left zero semigroups and right zero semigroups we identify a particular transformation semigroup. For more detailed information about the product of two arbitrary elements of a semilattice of semigroups we introduce the concept of strong semilattices of semigroups. It is well-known that a semilattice of groups is a strong semilattice of groups. So we can characterize a strong semilattice of groups of particular pairwise coprime exponents by disjunctions of identities. Additionally we describe the class of all strong semilattices of left zero semigroups and right zero semigroups with the help of such kind of identity, and we relate this statement to the theory of normal bands. A possible extension of the already described semilattices of rectangular groups can be achieved by an auxiliary total order (in terms of chains of semigroups). To this end we present a corresponding characterization due to disjunctions of identities which is obviously minimal. A list of open questions which have arisen during the research for this thesis, but left crude, is attached.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Tinpun2019,
  author    = {Tinpun, Kittisak},
  title     = {Relative rank of infinite full transformation semigroups with restricted range},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{LyTarkhanov2007,
  author    = {Ly, I. and Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich},
  title     = {The cauchy problem for nonlinear elliptic equations},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-30228},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {This paper is devoted to investigation of the Cauchy problem for nonlinear elliptic equations with a small parameter.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Boehne2019,
  author    = {B{\"o}hne, Sebastian},
  title     = {Different degrees of formality},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-42379},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-423795},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {VI, 167},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {In this thesis we introduce the concept of the degree of formality. It is directed against a dualistic point of view, which only distinguishes between formal and informal proofs. This dualistic attitude does not respect the differences between the argumentations classified as informal and it is unproductive because the individual potential of the respective argumentation styles cannot be appreciated and remains untapped. This thesis has two parts. In the first of them we analyse the concept of the degree of formality (including a discussion about the respective benefits for each degree) while in the second we demonstrate its usefulness in three case studies. In the first case study we will repair Haskell B. Curry's view of mathematics, which incidentally is of great importance in the first part of this thesis, in light of the different degrees of formality. In the second case study we delineate how awareness of the different degrees of formality can be used to help students to learn how to prove. Third, we will show how the advantages of proofs of different degrees of formality can be combined by the development of so called tactics having a medium degree of formality. Together the three case studies show that the degrees of formality provide a convincing solution to the problem of untapped potential.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KiyDehneBussler2015,
  author    = {Kiy, Alexander and Dehne, Julian and Bussler, Dirk},
  title     = {Aufbau einer Cloud-Speicherl{\"o}sung und Integration in bestehende IuK-Infrastrukturen am Beispiel ownCloud an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  series = {Cloudspeicher im Hochschuleinsatz 2015: Proceedings der Tagung "Cloudspeicher im Hochschuleinsatz" am 07. und 08. Mai 2015 am IT-Service-Center (tubIT) der Technischen Universit{\"a}t Berlin},
  journal   = {Cloudspeicher im Hochschuleinsatz 2015: Proceedings der Tagung "Cloudspeicher im Hochschuleinsatz" am 07. und 08. Mai 2015 am IT-Service-Center (tubIT) der Technischen Universit{\"a}t Berlin},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag der TU Berlin},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-7983-2780-1},
  pages     = {61 -- 72},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {In 2015 the second conference „Cloud Storage Deployment in Academics" took place. Interest regarding this issue was again high and topics established in 2014 like data security and scalability were complemented by new ones like federations or technical integration in existing infrastructures. This is caused by the advances in the establishment of cloud-based storage systems. This publication contains the contributions of the conference „Cloud Storage Deployment in Academics 2015", which took place in may 2015 at TU Berlin.},
  language  = {de}
}
@inproceedings{KiyStrelczukLucke2013,
  author    = {Kiy, Alexander and Strelczuk, Frederik and Lucke, Ulrike},
  title     = {Ein Plugin zur integrierten Literaturverwaltung in Moodle},
  series = {Ein Plugin zur integrierten Literaturverwaltung in Moodle},
  booktitle = {Ein Plugin zur integrierten Literaturverwaltung in Moodle},
  editor    = {Horbach, Matthias},
  publisher = {Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Informatik e.V.},
  address   = {Bonn},
  isbn      = {978-3-88579-614-5},
  pages     = {334 -- 345},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Muench2019,
  author    = {M{\"u}nch, Florentin},
  title     = {Discrete Ricci curvature, diameter bounds and rigidity},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {68},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HanischLudewig2022,
  author    = {Hanisch, Florian and Ludewig, Matthias},
  title     = {A rigorous construction of the supersymmetric path integral associated to a compact spin manifold},
  series = {Communications in mathematical physics},
  volume    = {391},
  journal   = {Communications in mathematical physics},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin ; Heidelberg},
  issn      = {0010-3616},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00220-022-04336-7},
  pages     = {1209 -- 1239},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {We give a rigorous construction of the path integral in N = 1/2 supersymmetry as an integral map for differential forms on the loop space of a compact spin manifold. It is defined on the space of differential forms which can be represented by extended iterated integrals in the sense of Chen and Getzler-Jones-Petrack. Via the iterated integral map, we compare our path integral to the non-commutative loop space Chern character of Guneysu and the second author. Our theory provides a rigorous background to various formal proofs of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem for twisted Dirac operators using supersymmetric path integrals, as investigated by Alvarez-Gaume, Atiyah, Bismut and Witten.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SeeligRabeMalemShinitskietal.2020,
  author    = {Seelig, Stefan A. and Rabe, Maximilian Michael and Malem-Shinitski, Noa and Risse, Sarah and Reich, Sebastian and Engbert, Ralf},
  title     = {Bayesian parameter estimation for the SWIFT model of eye-movement control during reading},
  series = {Journal of mathematical psychology},
  volume    = {95},
  journal   = {Journal of mathematical psychology},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {San Diego},
  issn      = {0022-2496},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.jmp.2019.102313},
  pages     = {32},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Process-oriented theories of cognition must be evaluated against time-ordered observations. Here we present a representative example for data assimilation of the SWIFT model, a dynamical model of the control of fixation positions and fixation durations during natural reading of single sentences. First, we develop and test an approximate likelihood function of the model, which is a combination of a spatial, pseudo-marginal likelihood and a temporal likelihood obtained by probability density approximation Second, we implement a Bayesian approach to parameter inference using an adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo procedure. Our results indicate that model parameters can be estimated reliably for individual subjects. We conclude that approximative Bayesian inference represents a considerable step forward for computational models of eye-movement control, where modeling of individual data on the basis of process-based dynamic models has not been possible so far.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Pikovskij2021,
  author    = {Pikovskij, Arkadij},
  title     = {Chimeras on a social-type network},
  series = {Mathematical modelling of natural phenomena : MMNP},
  volume    = {16},
  journal   = {Mathematical modelling of natural phenomena : MMNP},
  publisher = {EDP Sciences},
  address   = {Les Ulis},
  issn      = {0973-5348},
  doi       = {10.1051/mmnp/2021012},
  pages     = {9},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {We consider a social-type network of coupled phase oscillators. Such a network consists of an active core of mutually interacting elements, and of a flock of passive units, which follow the driving from the active elements, but otherwise are not interacting. We consider a ring geometry with a long-range coupling, where active oscillators form a fluctuating chimera pattern. We show that the passive elements are strongly correlated. This is explained by negative transversal Lyapunov exponents.},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{PikovskijPoliti2016,
  author    = {Pikovskij, Arkadij and Politi, Antonio},
  title     = {Lyapunov Exponents},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  address   = {Cambridge},
  isbn      = {978-1-107-03042-8},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {XII, 285},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Lyapunov exponents lie at the heart of chaos theory, and are widely used in studies of complex dynamics. Utilising a pragmatic, physical approach, this self-contained book provides a comprehensive description of the concept. Beginning with the basic properties and numerical methods, it then guides readers through to the most recent advances in applications to complex systems. Practical algorithms are thoroughly reviewed and their performance is discussed, while a broad set of examples illustrate the wide range of potential applications. The description of various numerical and analytical techniques for the computation of Lyapunov exponents offers an extensive array of tools for the characterization of phenomena such as synchronization, weak and global chaos in low and high-dimensional set-ups, and localization. This text equips readers with all the investigative expertise needed to fully explore the dynamical properties of complex systems, making it ideal for both graduate students and experienced researchers.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{StraubePikovskij2011,
  author    = {Straube, Arthur V. and Pikovskij, Arkadij},
  title     = {Pattern formation induced by time-dependent advection},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {575},
  issn      = {1866-8372},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41314},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413140},
  pages     = {138-147},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {We study pattern-forming instabilities in reaction-advection-diffusion systems. We develop an approach based on Lyapunov-Bloch exponents to figure out the impact of a spatially periodic mixing flow on the stability of a spatially homogeneous state. We deal with the flows periodic in space that may have arbitrary time dependence. We propose a discrete in time model, where reaction, advection, and diffusion act as successive operators, and show that a mixing advection can lead to a pattern-forming instability in a two-component system where only one of the species is advected. Physically, this can be explained as crossing a threshold of Turing instability due to effective increase of one of the diffusion constants.},
  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{WiljesTong2020,
  author    = {Wiljes, Jana de and Tong, Xin T.},
  title     = {Analysis of a localised nonlinear ensemble Kalman Bucy filter with complete and accurate observations},
  series = {Nonlinearity},
  volume    = {33},
  journal   = {Nonlinearity},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {IOP Publ.},
  address   = {Bristol},
  issn      = {0951-7715},
  doi       = {10.1088/1361-6544/ab8d14},
  pages     = {4752 -- 4782},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Concurrent observation technologies have made high-precision real-time data available in large quantities. Data assimilation (DA) is concerned with how to combine this data with physical models to produce accurate predictions. For spatial-temporal models, the ensemble Kalman filter with proper localisation techniques is considered to be a state-of-the-art DA methodology. This article proposes and investigates a localised ensemble Kalman Bucy filter for nonlinear models with short-range interactions. We derive dimension-independent and component-wise error bounds and show the long time path-wise error only has logarithmic dependence on the time range. The theoretical results are verified through some simple numerical tests.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Hanisch2011,
  author    = {Hanisch, Florian},
  title     = {Variational problems on supermanifolds},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59757},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {In this thesis, we discuss the formulation of variational problems on supermanifolds. Supermanifolds incorporate bosonic as well as fermionic degrees of freedom. Fermionic fields take values in the odd part of an appropriate Grassmann algebra and are thus showing an anticommutative behaviour. However, a systematic treatment of these Grassmann parameters requires a description of spaces as functors, e.g. from the category of Grassmann algberas into the category of sets (or topological spaces, manifolds). After an introduction to the general ideas of this approach, we use it to give a description of the resulting supermanifolds of fields/maps. We show that each map is uniquely characterized by a family of differential operators of appropriate order. Moreover, we demonstrate that each of this maps is uniquely characterized by its component fields, i.e. by the coefficients in a Taylor expansion w.r.t. the odd coordinates. In general, the component fields are only locally defined. We present a way how to circumvent this limitation. In fact, by enlarging the supermanifold in question, we show that it is possible to work with globally defined components. We eventually use this formalism to study variational problems. More precisely, we study a super version of the geodesic and a generalization of harmonic maps to supermanifolds. Equations of motion are derived from an energy functional and we show how to decompose them into components. Finally, in special cases, we can prove the existence of critical points by reducing the problem to equations from ordinary geometric analysis. After solving these component equations, it is possible to show that their solutions give rise to critical points in the functor spaces of fields.},
  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{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}
}
@article{TomovskiMetzlerGerhold2022,
  author    = {Tomovski, Živorad and Metzler, Ralf and Gerhold, Stefan},
  title     = {Fractional characteristic functions, and a fractional calculus approach for moments of random variables},
  series = {Fractional calculus and applied analysis : an international journal for theory and applications},
  volume    = {25},
  journal   = {Fractional calculus and applied analysis : an international journal for theory and applications},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {De Gruyter},
  address   = {Berlin ; Boston},
  issn      = {1314-2224},
  doi       = {10.1007/s13540-022-00047-x},
  pages     = {1307 -- 1323},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {In this paper we introduce a fractional variant of the characteristic function of a random variable. It exists on the whole real line, and is uniformly continuous. We show that fractional moments can be expressed in terms of Riemann-Liouville integrals and derivatives of the fractional characteristic function. The fractional moments are of interest in particular for distributions whose integer moments do not exist. Some illustrative examples for particular distributions are also presented.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PurintonBookhagen2020,
  author    = {Purinton, Benjamin and Bookhagen, Bodo},
  title     = {Multiband (X, C, L) radar amplitude analysis for a mixed sand- and gravel-bed river in the eastern Central Andes},
  series = {Remote sensing of environment : an interdisciplinary journal},
  volume    = {246},
  journal   = {Remote sensing of environment : an interdisciplinary journal},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0034-4257},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.rse.2020.111799},
  pages     = {16},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) amplitude measurements from spaceborne sensors are sensitive to surface roughness conditions near their radar wavelength. These backscatter signals are often exploited to assess the roughness of plowed agricultural fields and water surfaces, and less so to complex, heterogeneous geological surfaces. The bedload of mixed sand- and gravel-bed rivers can be considered a mixture of smooth (compacted sand) and rough (gravel) surfaces. Here, we assess backscatter gradients over a large high-mountain alluvial river in the eastern Central Andes with aerially exposed sand and gravel bedload using X-band TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X, C-band Sentinel-1, and L-band ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 radar scenes. In a first step, we present theory and hypotheses regarding radar response to an alluvial channel bed. We test our hypotheses by comparing backscatter responses over vegetation-free endmember surfaces from inside and outside of the active channel-bed area. We then develop methods to extract smoothed backscatter gradients downstream along the channel using kernel density estimates. In a final step, the local variability of sand-dominated patches is analyzed using Fourier frequency analysis, by fitting stretched-exponential and power-law regression models to the 2-D power spectrum of backscatter amplitude. We find a large range in backscatter depending on the heterogeneity of contiguous smooth- and rough-patches of bedload material. The SAR amplitude signal responds primarily to the fraction of smooth-sand bedload, but is further modified by gravel elements. The sensitivity to gravel is more apparent in longer wavelength L-band radar, whereas C- and X-band is sensitive only to sand variability. Because the spatial extent of smooth sand patches in our study area is typically< 50 m, only higher resolution sensors (e.g., TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X) are useful for power spectrum analysis. Our results show the potential for mapping sand-gravel transitions and local geomorphic complexity in alluvial rivers with aerially exposed bedload using SAR amplitude.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KwarikundaSchiefeleSsenyongaetal.2021,
  author    = {Kwarikunda, Diana and Schiefele, Ulrich and Ssenyonga, Joseph and Muwonge, Charles Magoba},
  title     = {Secondary school students' motivation profiles for physics learning},
  series = {African journal of research in mathematics, science and technology education : official journal of the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education},
  volume    = {25},
  journal   = {African journal of research in mathematics, science and technology education : official journal of the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {1028-8457},
  doi       = {10.1080/18117295.2021.1956720},
  pages     = {197 -- 210},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {For efficient and effective pedagogical interventions to address Uganda's alarmingly poor performance in Physics, it is vital to understand students' motivation patterns for Physics learning. Latent profile analysis (LPA)-a person-centred approach-can be used to investigate these motivation patterns. Using a three-step approach to LPA, we sought to answer the following research questions: RQ1, which profiles of secondary school students exist with regards to their motivation for Physics learning; RQ2, are there differences in students' cognitive learning strategies in the identified profiles; and RQ3, does students' gender, attitudes, and individual interest predict membership in these profiles? The sample comprised 934 Grade 9 students from eight secondary schools in Uganda. Data were collected using standardised questionnaires. Six motivational profiles were identified: (i) low-quantity motivation profile (101 students; 10.8\%); (ii) moderate-quantity motivation profile (246 students; 26.3\%); (iii) high-quantity motivation profile (365 students; 39.1\%); (iv) primarily intrinsically motivated profile (60 students, 6.4\%); (v) mostly extrinsically motivated profile (88 students, 9.4\%); and (vi) grade-introjected profile (74 students, 7.9\%). Low-quantity and grade-introjected motivated students mostly used surface learning strategies whilst the high-quantity and primarily intrinsically motivated students used deep learning strategies. Lastly, unlike gender, individual interest and students' attitudes towards Physics learning predicted profile membership. Teachers should provide an interesting autonomous Physics classroom climate and give students clear instructions in self-reliant behaviours that promote intrinsic motivation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{DereudreMazzonettoRoelly2016,
  author    = {Dereudre, David and Mazzonetto, Sara and Roelly, Sylvie},
  title     = {Exact simulation of Brownian diffusions with drift admitting jumps},
  volume    = {5},
  number    = {7},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2193-6943},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-91049},
  pages     = {25},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Using an algorithm based on a retrospective rejection sampling scheme, we propose an exact simulation of a Brownian diffusion whose drift admits several jumps. We treat explicitly and extensively the case of two jumps, providing numerical simulations. Our main contribution is to manage the technical difficulty due to the presence of two jumps thanks to a new explicit expression of the transition density of the skew Brownian motion with two semipermeable barriers and a constant drift.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{RoellyDereudre2004,
  author    = {Roelly, Sylvie and Dereudre, David},
  title     = {Propagation of Gibbsiannes for infinite-dimensional gradient Brownian diffusions},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-6918},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {We study the (strong-)Gibbsian character on R Z d of the law at time t of an infinitedimensional gradient Brownian diffusion , when the initial distribution is Gibbsian.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{DereudreRoelly2004,
  author    = {Dereudre, David and Roelly, Sylvie},
  title     = {Propagation of Gibbsianness for infinite-dimensional gradient Brownian diffusions},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51535},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {We study the (strong-)Gibbsian character on RZd of the law at time t of an infinitedimensional gradient Brownian diffusion , when the initial distribution is Gibbsian.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{DereudreMazzonettoRoelly2015,
  author    = {Dereudre, David and Mazzonetto, Sara and Roelly, Sylvie},
  title     = {An explicit representation of the transition densities of the skew Brownian motion with drift and two semipermeable barriers},
  volume    = {4},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2193-6943},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-80613},
  pages     = {23},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {In this paper we obtain an explicit representation of the transition density of the one-dimensional skew Brownian motion with (a constant drift and) two semipermeable barriers. Moreover we propose a rejection method to simulate this density in an exact way.},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{DereudreRoelly2014,
  author    = {Dereudre, David and Roelly, Sylvie},
  title     = {Path-dependent infinite-dimensional SDE with non-regular drift : an existence result},
  volume    = {3},
  number    = {11},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2193-6943},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-72084},
  pages     = {27},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {We establish in this paper the existence of weak solutions of infinite-dimensional shift invariant stochastic differential equations driven by a Brownian term. The drift function is very general, in the sense that it is supposed to be neither small or continuous, nor Markov. On the initial law we only assume that it admits a finite specific entropy. Our result strongly improves the previous ones obtained for free dynamics with a small perturbative drift. The originality of our method leads in the use of the specific entropy as a tightness tool and on a description of such stochastic differential equation as solution of a variational problem on the path space.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{RoellyDereudre2004,
  author    = {Roelly, Sylvie and Dereudre, David},
  title     = {On Gibbsianness of infinite-dimensional diffusions},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-6692},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {The authors analyse different Gibbsian properties of interactive Brownian diffusions X indexed by the d-dimensional lattice. In the first part of the paper, these processes are characterized as Gibbs states on path spaces. In the second part of the paper, they study the Gibbsian character on R^{Z^d} of the law at time t of the infinite-dimensional diffusion X(t), when the initial law is Gibbsian. AMS Classifications: 60G15 , 60G60 , 60H10 , 60J60},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{DereudreRoelly2017,
  author    = {Dereudre, David and Roelly, Sylvie},
  title     = {Path-dependent infinite-dimensional SDE with non-regular drift},
  series = {Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincar{\´e} : B, Probability and statistics},
  volume    = {53},
  journal   = {Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincar{\´e} : B, Probability and statistics},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Inst. of Mathematical Statistics},
  address   = {Bethesda},
  issn      = {0246-0203},
  doi       = {10.1214/15-AIHP728},
  pages     = {641 -- 657},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {We establish in this paper the existence of weak solutions of infinite-dimensional shift invariant stochastic differential equations driven by a Brownian term. The drift function is very general, in the sense that it is supposed to be neither bounded or continuous, nor Markov. On the initial law we only assume that it admits a finite specific entropy and a finite second moment. The originality of our method leads in the use of the specific entropy as a tightness tool and in the description of such infinite-dimensional stochastic process as solution of a variational problem on the path space. Our result clearly improves previous ones obtained for free dynamics with bounded drift.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Mazzonetto2016,
  author    = {Mazzonetto, Sara},
  title     = {On the exact simulation of (skew) Brownian diffusions with discontinuous drift},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-102399},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {ii, 100},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {This thesis is focused on the study and the exact simulation of two classes of real-valued Brownian diffusions: multi-skew Brownian motions with constant drift and Brownian diffusions whose drift admits a finite number of jumps. The skew Brownian motion was introduced in the sixties by It{\^o} and McKean, who constructed it from the reflected Brownian motion, flipping its excursions from the origin with a given probability. Such a process behaves as the original one except at the point 0, which plays the role of a semipermeable barrier. More generally, a skew diffusion with several semipermeable barriers, called multi-skew diffusion, is a diffusion everywhere except when it reaches one of the barriers, where it is partially reflected with a probability depending on that particular barrier. Clearly, a multi-skew diffusion can be characterized either as solution of a stochastic differential equation involving weighted local times (these terms providing the semi-permeability) or by its infinitesimal generator as Markov process. In this thesis we first obtain a contour integral representation for the transition semigroup of the multiskew Brownian motion with constant drift, based on a fine analysis of its complex properties. Thanks to this representation we write explicitly the transition densities of the two-skew Brownian motion with constant drift as an infinite series involving, in particular, Gaussian functions and their tails. Then we propose a new useful application of a generalization of the known rejection sampling method. Recall that this basic algorithm allows to sample from a density as soon as one finds an - easy to sample - instrumental density verifying that the ratio between the goal and the instrumental densities is a bounded function. The generalized rejection sampling method allows to sample exactly from densities for which indeed only an approximation is known. The originality of the algorithm lies in the fact that one finally samples directly from the law without any approximation, except the machine's. As an application, we sample from the transition density of the two-skew Brownian motion with or without constant drift. The instrumental density is the transition density of the Brownian motion with constant drift, and we provide an useful uniform bound for the ratio of the densities. We also present numerical simulations to study the efficiency of the algorithm. The second aim of this thesis is to develop an exact simulation algorithm for a Brownian diffusion whose drift admits several jumps. In the literature, so far only the case of a continuous drift (resp. of a drift with one finite jump) was treated. The theoretical method we give allows to deal with any finite number of discontinuities. Then we focus on the case of two jumps, using the transition densities of the two-skew Brownian motion obtained before. Various examples are presented and the efficiency of our approach is discussed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KemptonMuenchYau2021,
  author    = {Kempton, Mark and M{\"u}nch, Florentin and Yau, Shing-Tung},
  title     = {A homology vanishing theorem for graphs with positive curvature},
  series = {Communications in analysis and geometry},
  volume    = {29},
  journal   = {Communications in analysis and geometry},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {International Press of Boston},
  address   = {Somerville},
  issn      = {1019-8385},
  doi       = {10.4310/CAG.2021.v29.n6.a5},
  pages     = {1449 -- 1473},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {We prove a homology vanishing theorem for graphs with positive Bakry-' Emery curvature, analogous to a classic result of Bochner on manifolds [3]. Specifically, we prove that if a graph has positive curvature at every vertex, then its first homology group is trivial, where the notion of homology that we use for graphs is the path homology developed by Grigor'yan, Lin, Muranov, and Yau [11]. We moreover prove that the fundamental group is finite for graphs with positive Bakry-' Emery curvature, analogous to a classic result of Myers on manifolds [22]. The proofs draw on several separate areas of graph theory, including graph coverings, gain graphs, and cycle spaces, in addition to the Bakry-Emery curvature, path homology, and graph homotopy. The main results follow as a consequence of several different relationships developed among these different areas. Specifically, we show that a graph with positive curvature cannot have a non-trivial infinite cover preserving 3-cycles and 4-cycles, and give a combinatorial interpretation of the first path homology in terms of the cycle space of a graph. Furthermore, we relate gain graphs to graph homotopy and the fundamental group developed by Grigor'yan, Lin, Muranov, and Yau [12], and obtain an alternative proof of their result that the abelianization of the fundamental group of a graph is isomorphic to the first path homology over the integers.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{ButuzovNefedovReckeetal.2019,
  author    = {Butuzov, Valentin F. and Nefedov, N. N. and Recke, Lutz and Omel'chenko, Oleh},
  title     = {Partly dissipative system with multizonal initial and boundary layers},
  series = {Journal of Physics: Conference Series},
  volume    = {1205},
  journal   = {Journal of Physics: Conference Series},
  publisher = {IOP Publ.},
  address   = {Bristol},
  issn      = {1742-6588},
  doi       = {10.1088/1742-6596/1205/1/012009},
  pages     = {7},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {For a singularly perturbed parabolic - ODE system we construct the asymptotic expansion in the small parameter in the case, when the degenerate equation has a double root. Such systems, which are called partly dissipative reaction-diffusion systems, are used to model various natural processes, including the signal transmission along axons, solid combustion and the kinetics of some chemical reactions. It turns out that the algorithm of the construction of the boundary layer functions and the behavior of the solution in the boundary layers essentially differ from that ones in case of a simple root. The multizonal initial and boundary layers behaviour was stated.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Omel'chenko2019,
  author    = {Omel'chenko, Oleh},
  title     = {Travelling chimera states in systems of phase oscillators with asymmetric nonlocal coupling},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {2},
  issn      = {1866-8372},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-51814},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-518141},
  pages     = {611 -- 642},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {We study travelling chimera states in a ring of nonlocally coupled heterogeneous (with Lorentzian distribution of natural frequencies) phase oscillators. These states are coherence-incoherence patterns moving in the lateral direction because of the broken reflection symmetry of the coupling topology. To explain the results of direct numerical simulations we consider the continuum limit of the system. In this case travelling chimera states correspond to smooth travelling wave solutions of some integro-differential equation, called the Ott-Antonsen equation, which describes the long time coarse-grained dynamics of the oscillators. Using the Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction technique we suggest a numerical approach for the continuation of these travelling waves. Moreover, we perform their linear stability analysis and show that travelling chimera states can lose their stability via fold and Hopf bifurcations. Some of the Hopf bifurcations turn out to be supercritical resulting in the observation of modulated travelling chimera states.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Omel'chenko2022,
  author    = {Omel'chenko, Oleh},
  title     = {Mathematical framework for breathing chimera states},
  series = {Journal of nonlinear science},
  volume    = {32},
  journal   = {Journal of nonlinear science},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0938-8974},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00332-021-09779-1},
  pages     = {34},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {About two decades ago it was discovered that systems of nonlocally coupled oscillators can exhibit unusual symmetry-breaking patterns composed of coherent and incoherent regions. Since then such patterns, called chimera states, have been the subject of intensive study but mostly in the stationary case when the coarse-grained system dynamics remains unchanged over time. Nonstationary coherence-incoherence patterns, in particular periodically breathing chimera states, were also reported, however not investigated systematically because of their complexity. In this paper we suggest a semi-analytic solution to the above problem providing a mathematical framework for the analysis of breathing chimera states in a ring of nonlocally coupled phase oscillators. Our approach relies on the consideration of an integro-differential equation describing the long-term coarse-grained dynamics of the oscillator system. For this equation we specify a class of solutions relevant to breathing chimera states. We derive a self-consistency equation for these solutions and carry out their stability analysis. We show that our approach correctly predicts macroscopic features of breathing chimera states. Moreover, we point out its potential application to other models which can be studied using the Ott-Antonsen reduction technique.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{ChechkinZaidLomholtetal.2013,
  author    = {Chechkin, Aleksei V. and Zaid, Irwin M. and Lomholt, Michael A. and Sokolov, Igor M. and Metzler, Ralf},
  title     = {Bulk-mediated surface diffusion on a cylinder in the fast exchange limit},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {593},
  issn      = {1866-8372},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41548},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-415480},
  pages     = {114 -- 126},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {In various biological systems and small scale technological applications particles transiently bind to a cylindrical surface. Upon unbinding the particles diffuse in the vicinal bulk before rebinding to the surface. Such bulk-mediated excursions give rise to an effective surface translation, for which we here derive and discuss the dynamic equations, including additional surface diffusion. We discuss the time evolution of the number of surface-bound particles, the effective surface mean squared displacement, and the surface propagator. In particular, we observe sub- and superdiffusive regimes. A plateau of the surface mean-squared displacement reflects a stalling of the surface diffusion at longer times. Finally, the corresponding first passage problem for the cylindrical geometry is analysed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Rabe2024,
  author    = {Rabe, Maximilian Michael},
  title     = {Modeling the interaction of sentence processing and eye-movement control in reading},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-62279},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-622792},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {xiii, 171},
  year      = {2024},
  abstract  = {The evaluation of process-oriented cognitive theories through time-ordered observations is crucial for the advancement of cognitive science. The findings presented herein integrate insights from research on eye-movement control and sentence comprehension during reading, addressing challenges in modeling time-ordered data, statistical inference, and interindividual variability. Using kernel density estimation and a pseudo-marginal likelihood for fixation durations and locations, a likelihood implementation of the SWIFT model of eye-movement control during reading (Engbert et al., Psychological Review, 112, 2005, pp. 777-813) is proposed. Within the broader framework of data assimilation, Bayesian parameter inference with adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques is facilitated for reliable model fitting. Across the different studies, this framework has shown to enable reliable parameter recovery from simulated data and prediction of experimental summary statistics. Despite its complexity, SWIFT can be fitted within a principled Bayesian workflow, capturing interindividual differences and modeling experimental effects on reading across different geometrical alterations of text. Based on these advancements, the integrated dynamical model SEAM is proposed, which combines eye-movement control, a traditionally psychological research area, and post-lexical language processing in the form of cue-based memory retrieval (Lewis \& Vasishth, Cognitive Science, 29, 2005, pp. 375-419), typically the purview of psycholinguistics. This proof-of-concept integration marks a significant step forward in natural language comprehension during reading and suggests that the presented methodology can be useful to develop complex cognitive dynamical models that integrate processes at levels of perception, higher cognition, and (oculo-)motor control. These findings collectively advance process-oriented cognitive modeling and highlight the importance of Bayesian inference, individual differences, and interdisciplinary integration for a holistic understanding of reading processes. Implications for theory and methodology, including proposals for model comparison and hierarchical parameter inference, are briefly discussed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MalemShinitskiOpperReichetal.2020,
  author    = {Malem-Shinitski, Noa and Opper, Manfred and Reich, Sebastian and Schwetlick, Lisa and Seelig, Stefan A. and Engbert, Ralf},
  title     = {A mathematical model of local and global attention in natural scene viewing},
  series = {PLoS Computational Biology : a new community journal},
  volume    = {16},
  journal   = {PLoS Computational Biology : a new community journal},
  number    = {12},
  publisher = {PLoS},
  address   = {San Fransisco},
  issn      = {1553-734X},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007880},
  pages     = {21},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Author summary <br /> Switching between local and global attention is a general strategy in human information processing. We investigate whether this strategy is a viable approach to model sequences of fixations generated by a human observer in a free viewing task with natural scenes. Variants of the basic model are used to predict the experimental data based on Bayesian inference. Results indicate a high predictive power for both aggregated data and individual differences across observers. The combination of a novel model with state-of-the-art Bayesian methods lends support to our two-state model using local and global internal attention states for controlling eye movements. <br /> Understanding the decision process underlying gaze control is an important question in cognitive neuroscience with applications in diverse fields ranging from psychology to computer vision. The decision for choosing an upcoming saccade target can be framed as a selection process between two states: Should the observer further inspect the information near the current gaze position (local attention) or continue with exploration of other patches of the given scene (global attention)? Here we propose and investigate a mathematical model motivated by switching between these two attentional states during scene viewing. The model is derived from a minimal set of assumptions that generates realistic eye movement behavior. We implemented a Bayesian approach for model parameter inference based on the model's likelihood function. In order to simplify the inference, we applied data augmentation methods that allowed the use of conjugate priors and the construction of an efficient Gibbs sampler. This approach turned out to be numerically efficient and permitted fitting interindividual differences in saccade statistics. Thus, the main contribution of our modeling approach is two-fold; first, we propose a new model for saccade generation in scene viewing. Second, we demonstrate the use of novel methods from Bayesian inference in the field of scan path modeling.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Krejca2019,
  author    = {Krejca, Martin Stefan},
  title     = {Theoretical analyses of univariate estimation-of-distribution algorithms},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-43487},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434870},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {xii, 243},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Optimization is a core part of technological advancement and is usually heavily aided by computers. However, since many optimization problems are hard, it is unrealistic to expect an optimal solution within reasonable time. Hence, heuristics are employed, that is, computer programs that try to produce solutions of high quality quickly. One special class are estimation-of-distribution algorithms (EDAs), which are characterized by maintaining a probabilistic model over the problem domain, which they evolve over time. In an iterative fashion, an EDA uses its model in order to generate a set of solutions, which it then uses to refine the model such that the probability of producing good solutions is increased. In this thesis, we theoretically analyze the class of univariate EDAs over the Boolean domain, that is, over the space of all length-n bit strings. In this setting, the probabilistic model of a univariate EDA consists of an n-dimensional probability vector where each component denotes the probability to sample a 1 for that position in order to generate a bit string. My contribution follows two main directions: first, we analyze general inherent properties of univariate EDAs. Second, we determine the expected run times of specific EDAs on benchmark functions from theory. In the first part, we characterize when EDAs are unbiased with respect to the problem encoding. We then consider a setting where all solutions look equally good to an EDA, and we show that the probabilistic model of an EDA quickly evolves into an incorrect model if it is always updated such that it does not change in expectation. In the second part, we first show that the algorithms cGA and MMAS-fp are able to efficiently optimize a noisy version of the classical benchmark function OneMax. We perturb the function by adding Gaussian noise with a variance of σ², and we prove that the algorithms are able to generate the true optimum in a time polynomial in σ² and the problem size n. For the MMAS-fp, we generalize this result to linear functions. Further, we prove a run time of Ω(n log(n)) for the algorithm UMDA on (unnoisy) OneMax. Last, we introduce a new algorithm that is able to optimize the benchmark functions OneMax and LeadingOnes both in O(n log(n)), which is a novelty for heuristics in the domain we consider.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HlawenkaSiemensmeyerWeschkeetal.2018,
  author    = {Hlawenka, Peter and Siemensmeyer, Konrad and Weschke, Eugen and Varykhalov, Andrei and Sanchez-Barriga, Jaime and Shitsevalova, Natalya Y. and Dukhnenko, A. V. and Filipov, V. B. and Gabani, Slavomir and Flachbart, Karol and Rader, Oliver and Rienks, Emile D. L.},
  title     = {Samarium hexaboride is a trivial surface conductor},
  series = {Nature Communications},
  volume    = {9},
  journal   = {Nature Communications},
  publisher = {Nature Publ. Group},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {2041-1723},
  doi       = {10.1038/s41467-018-02908-7},
  pages     = {7},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {SmB6 is predicted to be the first member of the intersection of topological insulators and Kondo insulators, strongly correlated materials in which the Fermi level lies in the gap of a many-body resonance that forms by hybridization between localized and itinerant states. While robust, surface-only conductivity at low temperature and the observation of surface states at the expected high symmetry points appear to confirm this prediction, we find both surface states at the (100) surface to be topologically trivial. We find the (Gamma) over bar state to appear Rashba split and explain the prominent (X) over bar state by a surface shift of the many-body resonance. We propose that the latter mechanism, which applies to several crystal terminations, can explain the unusual surface conductivity. While additional, as yet unobserved topological surface states cannot be excluded, our results show that a firm connection between the two material classes is still outstanding.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{PornsawadSungcharoenBoeckmann2020,
  author    = {Pornsawad, Pornsarp and Sungcharoen, Parada and B{\"o}ckmann, Christine},
  title     = {Convergence rate of the modified Landweber method for solving inverse potential problems},
  series = {Mathematics : open access journal},
  volume    = {8},
  journal   = {Mathematics : open access journal},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  address   = {Basel},
  issn      = {2227-7390},
  doi       = {10.3390/math8040608},
  pages     = {22},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {In this paper, we present the convergence rate analysis of the modified Landweber method under logarithmic source condition for nonlinear ill-posed problems. The regularization parameter is chosen according to the discrepancy principle. The reconstructions of the shape of an unknown domain for an inverse potential problem by using the modified Landweber method are exhibited.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GuggenbergerChechkinMetzler2022,
  author    = {Guggenberger, Tobias and Chechkin, Aleksei and Metzler, Ralf},
  title     = {Absence of stationary states and non-Boltzmann distributions of fractional Brownian motion in shallow external potentials},
  series = {New journal of physics : the open-access journal for physics},
  volume    = {24},
  journal   = {New journal of physics : the open-access journal for physics},
  number    = {7},
  publisher = {Dt. Physikalische Ges.},
  address   = {[Bad Honnef]},
  issn      = {1367-2630},
  doi       = {10.1088/1367-2630/ac7b3c},
  pages     = {18},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {We study the diffusive motion of a particle in a subharmonic potential of the form U(x) = |x|( c ) (0 < c < 2) driven by long-range correlated, stationary fractional Gaussian noise xi ( alpha )(t) with 0 < alpha <= 2. In the absence of the potential the particle exhibits free fractional Brownian motion with anomalous diffusion exponent alpha. While for an harmonic external potential the dynamics converges to a Gaussian stationary state, from extensive numerical analysis we here demonstrate that stationary states for shallower than harmonic potentials exist only as long as the relation c > 2(1 - 1/alpha) holds. We analyse the motion in terms of the mean squared displacement and (when it exists) the stationary probability density function. Moreover we discuss analogies of non-stationarity of Levy flights in shallow external potentials.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BellingeriFrizPaychaetal.2022,
  author    = {Bellingeri, Carlo and Friz, Peter and Paycha, Sylvie and Preiß, Rosa Lili Dora},
  title     = {Smooth rough paths, their geometry and algebraic renormalization},
  series = {Vietnam journal of mathematics},
  volume    = {50},
  journal   = {Vietnam journal of mathematics},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Singapore},
  issn      = {2305-221X},
  doi       = {10.1007/s10013-022-00570-7},
  pages     = {719 -- 761},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {We introduce the class of "smooth rough paths" and study their main properties. Working in a smooth setting allows us to discard sewing arguments and focus on algebraic and geometric aspects. Specifically, a Maurer-Cartan perspective is the key to a purely algebraic form of Lyons' extension theorem, the renormalization of rough paths following up on [Bruned et al.: A rough path perspective on renormalization, J. Funct. Anal. 277(11), 2019], as well as a related notion of "sum of rough paths". We first develop our ideas in a geometric rough path setting, as this best resonates with recent works on signature varieties, as well as with the renormalization of geometric rough paths. We then explore extensions to the quasi-geometric and the more general Hopf algebraic setting.},
  language  = {en}
}