TY - JOUR A1 - Bachmann, Michael A1 - Schmidt, Hans-Jürgen T1 - Period-doubling bifurcation in strongly anisotropic Bianchi I quantum cosmology JF - General relativity and quantum cosmology : preprints gr-qc Y1 - 1999 VL - 9912068 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bachoc, Francois A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Neuvial, Pierre T1 - On the post selection inference constant under restricted isometry properties JF - Electronic journal of statistics N2 - Uniformly valid confidence intervals post model selection in regression can be constructed based on Post-Selection Inference (PoSI) constants. PoSI constants are minimal for orthogonal design matrices, and can be upper bounded in function of the sparsity of the set of models under consideration, for generic design matrices. In order to improve on these generic sparse upper bounds, we consider design matrices satisfying a Restricted Isometry Property (RIP) condition. We provide a new upper bound on the PoSI constant in this setting. This upper bound is an explicit function of the RIP constant of the design matrix, thereby giving an interpolation between the orthogonal setting and the generic sparse setting. We show that this upper bound is asymptotically optimal in many settings by constructing a matching lower bound. KW - Inference post model-selection KW - confidence intervals KW - PoSI constants KW - linear regression KW - high-dimensional inference KW - sparsity KW - restricted isometry property Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1214/18-EJS1490 SN - 1935-7524 VL - 12 IS - 2 SP - 3736 EP - 3757 PB - Institute of Mathematical Statistics CY - Cleveland ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baerenzung, Julien A1 - Holschneider, Matthias A1 - Lesur, Vincent T1 - Bayesian inversion for the filtered flow at the Earth's core-mantle boundary JF - Journal of geophysical research : Solid earth N2 - The inverse problem of determining the flow at the Earth's core-mantle boundary according to an outer core magnetic field and secular variation model has been investigated through a Bayesian formalism. To circumvent the issue arising from the truncated nature of the available fields, we combined two modeling methods. In the first step, we applied a filter on the magnetic field to isolate its large scales by reducing the energy contained in its small scales, we then derived the dynamical equation, referred as filtered frozen flux equation, describing the spatiotemporal evolution of the filtered part of the field. In the second step, we proposed a statistical parametrization of the filtered magnetic field in order to account for both its remaining unresolved scales and its large-scale uncertainties. These two modeling techniques were then included in the Bayesian formulation of the inverse problem. To explore the complex posterior distribution of the velocity field resulting from this development, we numerically implemented an algorithm based on Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. After evaluating our approach on synthetic data and comparing it to previously introduced methods, we applied it to a magnetic field model derived from satellite data for the single epoch 2005.0. We could confirm the existence of specific features already observed in previous studies. In particular, we retrieved the planetary scale eccentric gyre characteristic of flow evaluated under the compressible quasi-geostrophy assumption although this hypothesis was not considered in our study. In addition, through the sampling of the velocity field posterior distribution, we could evaluate the reliability, at any spatial location and at any scale, of the flow we calculated. The flow uncertainties we determined are nevertheless conditioned by the choice of the prior constraints we applied to the velocity field. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JB010358 SN - 2169-9313 SN - 2169-9356 VL - 119 IS - 4 SP - 2695 EP - 2720 PB - American Geophysical Union CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baerenzung, Julien A1 - Holschneider, Matthias A1 - Wicht, Johannes A1 - Lesur, Vincent A1 - Sanchez, Sabrina T1 - The Kalmag model as a candidate for IGRF-13 JF - Earth, planets and space N2 - We present a new model of the geomagnetic field spanning the last 20 years and called Kalmag. Deriving from the assimilation of CHAMP and Swarm vector field measurements, it separates the different contributions to the observable field through parameterized prior covariance matrices. To make the inverse problem numerically feasible, it has been sequentialized in time through the combination of a Kalman filter and a smoothing algorithm. The model provides reliable estimates of past, present and future mean fields and associated uncertainties. The version presented here is an update of our IGRF candidates; the amount of assimilated data has been doubled and the considered time window has been extended from [2000.5, 2019.74] to [2000.5, 2020.33]. KW - Geomagnetic field KW - Secular variation KW - Assimilation KW - Kalman filter KW - Machine learning Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-020-01295-y SN - 1880-5981 VL - 72 IS - 1 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bagderina, Yulia Yu. A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich T1 - Differential invariants of a class of Lagrangian systems with two degrees of freedom JF - Journal of mathematical analysis and applications KW - Equivalence KW - Differential invariant KW - Euler-Lagrange equations Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmaa.2013.08.015 SN - 0022-247X SN - 1096-0813 VL - 410 IS - 2 SP - 733 EP - 749 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bagderina, Yulia Yu. A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich T1 - Solution of the equivalence problem for the third Painleve equation JF - Journal of mathematical physics N2 - We find necessary conditions for a second order ordinary differential equation to be equivalent to the Painleve III equation under a general point transformation. Their sufficiency is established by reduction to known results for the equations of the form y ' = f (x, y). We consider separately the generic case and the case of reducibility to an autonomous equation. The results are illustrated by the primary resonance equation. Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4905383 SN - 0022-2488 SN - 1089-7658 VL - 56 IS - 1 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville ER - TY - INPR A1 - Bagderina, Yulia Yu. A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich T1 - Differential invariants of a class of Lagrangian systems with two degrees of freedom N2 - We consider systems of Euler-Lagrange equations with two degrees of freedom and with Lagrangian being quadratic in velocities. For this class of equations the generic case of the equivalence problem is solved with respect to point transformations. Using Lie's infinitesimal method we construct a basis of differential invariants and invariant differentiation operators for such systems. We describe certain types of Lagrangian systems in terms of their invariants. The results are illustrated by several examples. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 2 (2013) 2 KW - equivalence KW - invariant KW - Euler-Lagrange equations Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-63129 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Bagdonavičius, Vilijandas B. A1 - Levuliene, Ruta A1 - Nikulin, Mikhail S. A1 - Zdorova-Cheminade, Olga T1 - Tests for homogeneity of survival distributions against non-location alternatives and analysis of the gastric cancer data N2 - The two and k-sample tests of equality of the survival distributions against the alternatives including cross-effects of survival functions, proportional and monotone hazard ratios, are given for the right censored data. The asymptotic power against approaching alternatives is investigated. The tests are applied to the well known chemio and radio therapy data of the Gastrointestinal Tumor Study Group. The P-values for both proposed tests are much smaller then in the case of other known tests. Differently from the test of Stablein and Koutrouvelis the new tests can be applied not only for singly but also to randomly censored data. T3 - Mathematische Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie : Preprint - 2004, 03 KW - Censoring KW - Cross-effects KW - Kolmogorov-Smirnov type tests KW - Logrank test KW - Non-proportional hazards KW - Proportional hazards KW - Two-sample tests Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51527 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bailey, Iain W. A1 - Ben-Zion, Yehuda A1 - Becker, Thorsten W. A1 - Holschneider, Matthias T1 - Quantifying focal mechanism heterogeneity for fault zones in central and southern California N2 - P>We present a statistical analysis of focal mechanism orientations for nine California fault zones with the goal of quantifying variations of fault zone heterogeneity at seismogenic depths. The focal mechanism data are generated from first motion polarities for earthquakes in the time period 1983-2004, magnitude range 0-5, and depth range 0-15 km. Only mechanisms with good quality solutions are used. We define fault zones using 20 km wide rectangles and use summations of normalized potency tensors to describe the distribution of double-couple orientations for each fault zone. Focal mechanism heterogeneity is quantified using two measures computed from the tensors that relate to the scatter in orientations and rotational asymmetry or skewness of the distribution. We illustrate the use of these quantities by showing relative differences in the focal mechanism heterogeneity characteristics for different fault zones. These differences are shown to relate to properties of the fault zone surface traces such that increased scatter correlates with fault trace complexity and rotational asymmetry correlates with the dominant fault trace azimuth. These correlations indicate a link between the long-term evolution of a fault zone over many earthquake cycles and its seismic behaviour over a 20 yr time period. Analysis of the partitioning of San Jacinto fault zone focal mechanisms into different faulting styles further indicates that heterogeneity is dominantly controlled by structural properties of the fault zone, rather than time or magnitude related properties of the seismicity. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-246X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04745.x SN - 0956-540X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bandara, Lashi T1 - Functional calculus and harmonic analysis in geometry JF - São Paulo journal of mathematical sciences / Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo N2 - In this short survey article, we showcase a number of non-trivial geometric problems that have recently been resolved by marrying methods from functional calculus and real-variable harmonic analysis. We give a brief description of these methods as well as their interplay. This is a succinct survey that hopes to inspire geometers and analysts alike to study these methods so that they can be further developed to be potentially applied to a broader range of questions. KW - Functional calculus KW - Real-variable harmonic analysis KW - Elliptic boundary KW - value problems KW - Kato square root problem KW - Spectral flow KW - Riesz topology KW - Gigli-Mantegazza flow KW - Bisectorial operator Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40863-019-00149-0 SN - 1982-6907 SN - 2316-9028 VL - 15 IS - 1 SP - 20 EP - 53 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bandara, Lashi A1 - Bryan, Paul T1 - Heat kernels and regularity for rough metrics on smooth manifolds JF - Mathematische Nachrichten N2 - We consider rough metrics on smooth manifolds and corresponding Laplacians induced by such metrics. We demonstrate that globally continuous heat kernels exist and are Holder continuous locally in space and time. This is done via local parabolic Harnack estimates for weak solutions of operators in divergence form with bounded measurable coefficients in weighted Sobolev spaces. KW - heat kernel KW - parabolic Harnack estimate KW - rough metrics Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/mana.201800459 SN - 0025-584X SN - 1522-2616 VL - 293 IS - 12 SP - 2255 EP - 2270 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bandara, Lashi A1 - McIntosh, Alan A1 - Rosen, Andreas T1 - Riesz continuity of the Atiyah BT - singer dirac operator under perturbations of the metric JF - Mathematische Annalen N2 - We prove that the Atiyah–Singer Dirac operator in L2 depends Riesz continuously on L∞ perturbations of complete metrics g on a smooth manifold. The Lipschitz bound for the map depends on bounds on Ricci curvature and its first derivatives as well as a lower bound on injectivity radius. Our proof uses harmonic analysis techniques related to Calderón’s first commutator and the Kato square root problem. We also show perturbation results for more general functions of general Dirac-type operators on vector bundles. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-017-1610-7 SN - 0025-5831 SN - 1432-1807 VL - 370 IS - 1-2 SP - 863 EP - 915 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bandara, Menaka Lashitha A1 - Rosen, Andreas T1 - Riesz continuity of the Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator under perturbations of local boundary conditions JF - Communications in partial differential equations N2 - On a smooth complete Riemannian spin manifold with smooth compact boundary, we demonstrate that Atiyah-Singer Dirac operator in depends Riesz continuously on perturbations of local boundary conditions The Lipschitz bound for the map depends on Lipschitz smoothness and ellipticity of and bounds on Ricci curvature and its first derivatives as well as a lower bound on injectivity radius away from a compact neighbourhood of the boundary. More generally, we prove perturbation estimates for functional calculi of elliptic operators on manifolds with local boundary conditions. KW - Boundary value problems KW - Dirac operator KW - functional calculus KW - real-variable harmonic analysis KW - Riesz continuity KW - spectral flow Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/03605302.2019.1611847 SN - 0360-5302 SN - 1532-4133 VL - 44 IS - 12 SP - 1253 EP - 1284 PB - Taylor & Francis Group CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Battaglia Mayer, Alexandra A1 - Schmidt, Hans-Jürgen T1 - The de Sitter space-time as attractor solution in eighth order gravity T3 - Preprint / Universität Potsdam, Fachbereich Mathematik Y1 - 1993 VL - 1993, 05 PB - Univ. CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgaertel, Hellmut T1 - Spectral and scattering theory of Friedrichs Models on the positive half line with Hilbert-Schmidt perturbations N2 - The spectral theory of the Friedrichs model on the positive half line with Hilbert-Schmidt perturbations, equipped with distinguished analytic properties, is presented. In general, the (separable) multiplicity Hilbert space is assumed to be infinite-dimensional. The results include a spectral characterization of its resonances and the association of so-called Gamov vectors. Sufficient conditions are presented such that all resonances are simple poles of the scattering matrix. The connection between their residual terms and the associated Gamov vectors is pointed out. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/105443 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-009-0398-8 SN - 1424-0637 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgaertel, Hellmut A1 - Grundling, H. T1 - Superselection in the presence of constraints N2 - Superselection and constraints occur together in many gauge theories, and here we begin a study of such systems. Our main focus will be to analyze compatibility questions between constraining and superselection, and we will develop an example modelled on QED in which our framework is realized. We proceed from a generalization of Doplicher- Roberts superselection theory to the case of the nontrivial center, and a set of Dirac quantum constraints and find conditions under which the superselection structures will survive constraining in some form. This involves an analysis of the restriction and factorization of superselection structures. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics Y1 - 2005 SN - 0022-2488 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgaertel, Hellmut A1 - Kaldass, Hani A1 - Komy, Soliman T1 - On spectral properties of the resonances for selected potential scattering systems N2 - The resonances (poles of the scattering matrix) of quantum mechanical scattering by central-symmetric potentials with compact support and zero angular momentum are spectrally characterized directly in terms of the Hamiltonian by a (generalized) eigenvalue problem distinguished by an additional condition (called boundary condition). The connection between the (generalized) eigenspace of a resonance and corresponding Gamov vectors is pointed out. A condition is presented such that a relation between special transition probabilities and infinite sums of residual terms for all complex-conjugated pairs of resonances can be proved. In the case of the square well potential the condition is satisfied. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://jmp.aip.org/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3072675 SN - 0022-2488 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - A modified approach to the Doplicher-Roberts theorem on the construction of field algebra and the symmetry group in superselection theory T3 - Preprint / SFB 288, Differentialgeometrie und Quantenphysik Y1 - 1994 VL - 134 CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - Generalized eigenvectors for resonances in the Friedrichs model and their associated Gamov vectors N2 - A Gelfand triplet for the Hamiltonian H of the Priedrichs model on R with multiplicity space K, dim K < infinity, is constructed such that exactly the resonances (poles of the inverse of the Livsic-matrix) are (generalized) eigenvalues of H. The corresponding eigen(anti)linear forms are calculated explicitly. Using the wave matrices for the wave (Moller) operators the corresponding eigen(anti)linear forms on the Schwartz space S for the unperturbed Hamiltonian Ho are also calculated. It turns out that they are of pure Dirac type and can be characterized by their corresponding Gamov vector lambda -> k/(zeta(0)-lambda)(-1), zeta(0) resonance, k epsilon K, which is uniquely determined by restriction of S to S boolean AND H-+(2), where H-+(2) denotes the Hardy space of the upper half-plane. Simultaneously this restriction yields a truncation of the generalized evolution to the well-known decay semigroup for t >= 0 of the Toeplitz type on H-+(2). That is: Exactly those pre-Gamov vectors a lambda -> k/(zeta-lambda)(-1), ( from the lower half-plane, k epsilon K., have an extension to a generalized eigenvector of H if zeta is a resonance and if k is from that subspace of K which is uniquely determined by its corresponding Dirac type antilinear form Y1 - 2006 UR - http://www.worldscinet.com/rmp/rmp.shtml U6 - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129055X06002589 SN - 0129-055X ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - Operatoralgebraic methods in quantum field theory : a series of lectures Y1 - 1995 PB - Akademie Verl. CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - Fourier transformation of Hilbert C*-systems, with compact groups, by their regular representation Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - On Haag dual nets over compact spaces Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - Some operatoralgebraic fundamentals of the algebraic quantum field theory T3 - Preprint / Universität Potsdam, Fachbereich Mathematik Y1 - 1993 VL - 1993, 09 PB - Univ. CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - A modified approach to the Doplicher-Roberts theorem on the construction of the field algebra and the symmetry group in superselection theory Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - On a critical radiation density in the Friedmann equation JF - Journal of mathematical physics N2 - The paper presents a classification of the basic types of admissible solutions of the general Friedmann equation with non-vanishing cosmological constant and for the case that radiation and matter do not couple. There are four distinct types. The classification uses first the discriminant of a polynomial of the third degree, closely related to the right hand side of the Friedmann equation. The decisive term is then a critical radiation density which can be calculated explicitly. Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4771668 SN - 0022-2488 VL - 53 IS - 12 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - An Application of the DR-Duality Theory for Compact Groups to Endomorphism Categories of C*-Algebras with Nontrivial Center Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - Dual actions on C*-algebras and Hilbert extensions Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - On a theorem of Ashtekar and Lewandowski in the mathematical framework of canonical quantization in quantum gravity Y1 - 2000 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - Cuntz algebras and superselection structures in Quantum Field Theory T3 - LQP Papers / Local Quantum Physics Crossroads Y1 - 1999 UR - http://www.lqp.uni-goettingen.de PB - Univ. CY - Göttingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - On a theorem of Ashtekar and Lewandowski Y1 - 1999 SN - 981-023627-1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - An inverse problem for superselection structures on C*-algebras with nontrivial center Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - Actions of finite abelian groups on abelian C*-algebras Z: Second cohomology and description by C*-extensions F ) Z T3 - Preprint / SFB 288, Differentialgeometrie und Quantenphysik Y1 - 1999 VL - 383 CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut T1 - Group actions on C*-algebras and their description by Hilbert C*-extensions T3 - Preprint / SFB 288, Differentialgeometrie und Quantenphysik Y1 - 1999 VL - 385 CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut A1 - Carey, A. T1 - Hilbert systems for actions of the circle group Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut A1 - Carey, A. T1 - Hilbert systems for actions of the circle group T3 - ESI-Preprint / Erwin-Schröder-Institut für Mathematische Physik, Wien Y1 - 2000 VL - 940, 2000 PB - Erwin-Schröder-Institut für Mathematische Physik CY - Wien ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut A1 - Jurke, Matthias A1 - Lledó, Fernando T1 - Twisted duality for the CAR-algebra Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut A1 - Jurke, Matthias A1 - Lledó, Fernando T1 - On free nets over Minkowski space Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut A1 - Jurke, Matthias A1 - Lledó, Fernando T1 - A remark on covariant and causal nets of CAR-resp.CCR-type local algebras assigned to the irreducible unitary representation of the poincare group labeled by (m>0, s, +) T3 - Preprint / SFB 288, Differentialgeometrie und Quantenphysik Y1 - 1994 VL - 120 CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut A1 - Jurke, Matthias A1 - Lledó, Fernando T1 - Twisted duality for the CAR-algebra T3 - Preprint / SFB 288, Differentialgeometrie und Quantenphysik Y1 - 1999 UR - http://www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/Publications/Preprints.html VL - 401 PB - Techn. Univ. CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut A1 - Lledo, Fernando T1 - Duality of compact groups and Hilbert C*-systems for C*-algebras with a nontrivial center N2 - In this paper we present duality theory for compact groups in the case when the C*-algebra A, the fixed point algebra of the corresponding Hilbert C*-system (F, 9), has a nontrivial center Z superset of C1 and the relative commutant satisfies the minimality condition A' boolean AND F = Z, as well as a technical condition called regularity. The abstract characterization of the mentioned Hilbert C*-system is expressed by means of an inclusion of C*- categories T-c < T, where T-c is a suitable DR-category and T a full subcategory of the category of endomorphisms of A. Both categories have the same objects and the arrows of T can be generated from the arrows of T-c and the center Z. A crucial new element that appears in the present analysis is an abelian group C(G), which we call the chain group of G, and that can be constructed from certain equivalence relation defined on (G) over cap, the dual object of G. The chain group, which is isomorphic to the character group of the center of g, determines the action of irreducible endomorphisms of A when restricted to Z. Moreover, C(g) encodes the possibility of defining a symmetry epsilon also for the larger category T of the previous inclusion Y1 - 2004 SN - 0129-167X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut A1 - Lledó, Fernando T1 - Some results on superselection structures for C*-algebras with nontrivial center Y1 - 1997 SN - 981-02-3984-X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut A1 - Lledó, Fernando T1 - Superselection structures for C*-algebras with nontrivial center Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Baumgärtel, Hellmut A1 - Lledó, Fernando T1 - Dual group actions on C*-algebras and their description by Hilbert extensions T3 - Preprint / SFB 288, Differentialgeometrie und Quantenphysik Y1 - 2000 VL - 445 PB - Techn. Univ. CY - Berlin ER - TY - THES A1 - Becker, Christian T1 - On the Riemannian geometry of Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces T1 - Über die Riemannsche Geometrie von Seiberg-Witten-Modulräumen N2 - In this thesis, we give two constructions for Riemannian metrics on Seiberg-Witten moduli spaces. Both these constructions are naturally induced from the L2-metric on the configuration space. The construction of the so called quotient L2-metric is very similar to the one construction of an L2-metric on Yang-Mills moduli spaces as given by Groisser and Parker. To construct a Riemannian metric on the total space of the Seiberg-Witten bundle in a similar way, we define the reduced gauge group as a subgroup of the gauge group. We show, that the quotient of the premoduli space by the reduced gauge group is isomorphic as a U(1)-bundle to the quotient of the premoduli space by the based gauge group. The total space of this new representation of the Seiberg-Witten bundle carries a natural quotient L2-metric, and the bundle projection is a Riemannian submersion with respect to these metrics. We compute explicit formulae for the sectional curvature of the moduli space in terms of Green operators of the elliptic complex associated with a monopole. Further, we construct a Riemannian metric on the cobordism between moduli spaces for different perturbations. The second construction of a Riemannian metric on the moduli space uses a canonical global gauge fixing, which represents the total space of the Seiberg-Witten bundle as a finite dimensional submanifold of the configuration space. We consider the Seiberg-Witten moduli space on a simply connected Käuhler surface. We show that the moduli space (when nonempty) is a complex projective space, if the perturbation does not admit reducible monpoles, and that the moduli space consists of a single point otherwise. The Seiberg-Witten bundle can then be identified with the Hopf fibration. On the complex projective plane with a special Spin-C structure, our Riemannian metrics on the moduli space are Fubini-Study metrics. Correspondingly, the metrics on the total space of the Seiberg-Witten bundle are Berger metrics. We show that the diameter of the moduli space shrinks to 0 when the perturbation approaches the wall of reducible perturbations. Finally we show, that the quotient L2-metric on the Seiberg-Witten moduli space on a Kähler surface is a Kähler metric. N2 - In dieser Dissertationsschrift geben wir zwei Konstruktionen Riemannscher Metriken auf Seiberg-Witten-Modulräumen an. Beide Metriken werden in natürlicher Weise durch die L2-Metrik des Konfiguartionsraumes induziert. Die Konstruktion der sogenannten Quotienten-L2-Metrik entspricht der durch Groisser und Parker angegebenen Konstruktion einer L2-Metrik auf Yang-Mills-Modulräumen. Zur Konstruktion einer Quotienten-Metrik auf dem Totalraum des Seiberg-Witten-Bündels führen wir die sogenannte reduzierte Eichgruppe ein. Wir zeigen, dass der Quotient des Prämodulraumes nach der reduzierten Eichgruppe als U(1)-Bündel isomorph ist zu dem Quotienten nach der basierten Eichgruppe. Dadurch trägt der Totalraum des Seiberg-Witten Bündels eine natürliche Quotienten-L2-Metrik, bzgl. derer die Bündelprojektion eine Riemannsche Submersion ist. Wir berechnen explizite Formeln für die Schnittrümmung des Modulraumes in Ausdrücken der Green-Operatoren des zu einem Monopol gehörigen elliptischen Komplexes. Ferner konstruieren wir eine Riemannsche Metrik auf dem Kobordismus zwischen Modulräumen zu verschiedenen Störungen. Die zweite Konstruktion einer Riemannschen Metrik auf Seiberg-Witten-Modulräumen benutzt eine kanonische globale Eichfixierung, vermöge derer der Totalraum des Seiberg-Witten-Bündels als endlich-dimensionale Untermannigfaltigkeit des Konfigurationsraumes dargestellt werden kann. Wir betrachten speziell die Seiberg-Witten-Modulräume auf einfach zusammenhängenden Kähler-Mannigfaltigkeiten. Wir zeigen, dass der Seiberg-Witten-Modulraum (falls nicht-leer) im irreduziblen Fall ein komplex projektiver Raum its und im reduziblen Fall aus einem einzelnen Punkt besteht. Das Seiberg-Witten-Bündel läßt sich mit der Hopf-Faserung identifizieren. Die L2-Metrik des Modulraumes auf der komplex projektiven Fläche CP2 (mit einer speziellen Spin-C-Struktur) ist die Fubini-Study-Metrik; entsprechend sind die Metriken auf dem Totalraum Berger-Metriken. Wir zeigen, dass der Durchmesser des Modulraumes gegen 0 konvergiert, wenn die Störung sich dem reduziblen Fall nähert. Schließlich zeigen wir, dass die Quotienten-L2-Metrik auf dem Seiberg-Witten-Modulraum einer Kählerfläche eine Kähler-Metrik ist. KW - Eichtheorie KW - Seiberg-Witten-Invariante KW - Modulraum KW - Riemannsche Geometrie KW - Kähler-Mannigfaltigkeit KW - Unendlichdimensionale Mannigfaltigkeit KW - L2-Metrik KW - 4-Mannigfaltigkeiten KW - Gauge theory KW - Seiberg-Witten theory KW - Moduli spaces KW - Infinite dimensional manifolds KW - L2 metrics Y1 - 2005 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-5425 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Christian T1 - Relative differential cohomology JF - Lecture notes in mathematics : a collection of informal reports and seminars JF - Lecture Notes in Mathematics N2 - We study two notions of relative differential cohomology, using the model of differential characters. The two notions arise from the two options to construct relative homology, either by cycles of a quotient complex or of a mapping cone complex. We discuss the relation of the two notions of relative differential cohomology to each other. We discuss long exact sequences for both notions, thereby clarifying their relation to absolute differential cohomology. We construct the external and internal product of relative and absolute characters and show that relative differential cohomology is a right module over the absolute differential cohomology ring. Finally we construct fiber integration and transgression for relative differential characters. Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-319-07034-6; 978-3-319-07033-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07034-6_2 SN - 0075-8434 VL - 2112 SP - 91 EP - 180 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Christian T1 - Cheeger-Chern-Simons Theory and Differential String Classes JF - Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré N2 - We construct new concrete examples of relative differential characters, which we call Cheeger-Chern-Simons characters. They combine the well-known Cheeger-Simons characters with Chern-Simons forms. In the same way as Cheeger-Simons characters generalize Chern-Simons invariants of oriented closed manifolds, Cheeger-Chern-Simons characters generalize Chern-Simons invariants of oriented manifolds with boundary. We study the differential cohomology of compact Lie groups G and their classifying spaces BG. We show that the even degree differential cohomology of BG canonically splits into Cheeger-Simons characters and topologically trivial characters. We discuss the transgression in principal G-bundles and in the universal bundle. We introduce two methods to lift the universal transgression to a differential cohomology valued map. They generalize the Dijkgraaf-Witten correspondence between 3-dimensional Chern-Simons theories and Wess-Zumino-Witten terms to fully extended higher-order Chern-Simons theories. Using these lifts, we also prove two versions of a differential Hopf theorem. Using Cheeger-Chern-Simons characters and transgression, we introduce the notion of differential trivializations of universal characteristic classes. It generalizes well-established notions of differential String classes to arbitrary degree. Specializing to the class , we recover isomorphism classes of geometric string structures on Spin (n) -bundles with connection and the corresponding spin structures on the free loop space. The Cheeger-Chern-Simons character associated with the class together with its transgressions to loop space and higher mapping spaces defines a Chern-Simons theory, extended down to points. Differential String classes provide trivializations of this extended Chern-Simons theory. This setting immediately generalizes to arbitrary degree: for any universal characteristic class of principal G-bundles, we have an associated Cheeger-Chern-Simons character and extended Chern-Simons theory. Differential trivialization classes yield trivializations of this extended Chern-Simons theory. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-016-0485-6 SN - 1424-0637 SN - 1424-0661 VL - 17 SP - 1529 EP - 1594 PB - Springer CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Christian A1 - Benini, Marco A1 - Schenkel, Alexander A1 - Szabo, Richard J. T1 - Cheeger-Simons differential characters with compact support and Pontryagin duality JF - Communications in analysis and geometry N2 - By adapting the Cheeger-Simons approach to differential cohomology, we establish a notion of differential cohomology with compact support. We show that it is functorial with respect to open embeddings and that it fits into a natural diagram of exact sequences which compare it to compactly supported singular cohomology and differential forms with compact support, in full analogy to ordinary differential cohomology. We prove an excision theorem for differential cohomology using a suitable relative version. Furthermore, we use our model to give an independent proof of Pontryagin duality for differential cohomology recovering a result of [Harvey, Lawson, Zweck - Amer. J. Math. 125 (2003), 791]: On any oriented manifold, ordinary differential cohomology is isomorphic to the smooth Pontryagin dual of compactly supported differential cohomology. For manifolds of finite-type, a similar result is obtained interchanging ordinary with compactly supported differential cohomology. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4310/CAG.2019.v27.n7.a2 SN - 1019-8385 SN - 1944-9992 VL - 27 IS - 7 SP - 1473 EP - 1522 PB - International Press of Boston CY - Somerville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Christian A1 - Schenkel, Alexander A1 - Szabo, Richard J. T1 - Differential cohomology and locally covariant quantum field theory JF - Reviews in Mathematical Physics N2 - We study differential cohomology on categories of globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. The Lorentzian metric allows us to define a natural transformation whose kernel generalizes Maxwell's equations and fits into a restriction of the fundamental exact sequences of differential cohomology. We consider smooth Pontryagin duals of differential cohomology groups, which are subgroups of the character groups. We prove that these groups fit into smooth duals of the fundamental exact sequences of differential cohomology and equip them with a natural presymplectic structure derived from a generalized Maxwell Lagrangian. The resulting presymplectic Abelian groups are quantized using the CCR-functor, which yields a covariant functor from our categories of globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds to the category of C∗-algebras. We prove that this functor satisfies the causality and time-slice axioms of locally covariant quantum field theory, but that it violates the locality axiom. We show that this violation is precisely due to the fact that our functor has topological subfunctors describing the Pontryagin duals of certain singular cohomology groups. As a byproduct, we develop a Fréchet–Lie group structure on differential cohomology groups. KW - Algebraic quantum field theory KW - generalized Abelian gauge theory KW - differential cohomology Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0129055X17500039 SN - 0129-055X SN - 1793-6659 VL - 29 IS - 1 PB - World Scientific CY - Singapore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beckus, Siegfried A1 - Bellissard, Jean A1 - Cornean, Horia T1 - Holder Continuity of the Spectra for Aperiodic Hamiltonians JF - Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré N2 - We study the spectral location of a strongly pattern equivariant Hamiltonians arising through configurations on a colored lattice. Roughly speaking, two configurations are "close to each other" if, up to a translation, they "almost coincide" on a large fixed ball. The larger this ball, the more similar they are, and this induces a metric on the space of the corresponding dynamical systems. Our main result states that the map which sends a given configuration into the spectrum of its associated Hamiltonian, is Holder (even Lipschitz) continuous in the usual Hausdorff metric. Specifically, the spectral distance of two Hamiltonians is estimated by the distance of the corresponding dynamical systems. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-019-00848-6 SN - 1424-0637 SN - 1424-0661 VL - 20 IS - 11 SP - 3603 EP - 3631 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - GEN A1 - Beckus, Siegfried A1 - Bellissard, Jean A1 - De Nittis, Giuseppe T1 - Corrigendum to: Spectral continuity for aperiodic quantum systems I. General theory. - [Journal of functional analysis. - 275 (2018), 11, S. 2917 – 2977] T2 - Journal of functional analysis N2 - A correct statement of Theorem 4 in [1] is provided. The change does not affect the main results. KW - Haar system Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2019.06.001 SN - 0022-1236 SN - 1096-0783 VL - 277 IS - 9 SP - 3351 EP - 3353 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beckus, Siegfried A1 - Bellissard, Jean A1 - De Nittis, Giuseppe T1 - Spectral continuity for aperiodic quantum systems BT - applications of a folklore theorem JF - Journal of mathematical physics N2 - This work provides a necessary and sufficient condition for a symbolic dynamical system to admit a sequence of periodic approximations in the Hausdorff topology. The key result proved and applied here uses graphs that are called De Bruijn graphs, Rauzy graphs, or Anderson-Putnam complex, depending on the community. Combining this with a previous result, the present work justifies rigorously the accuracy and reliability of algorithmic methods used to compute numerically the spectra of a large class of self-adjoint operators. The so-called Hamiltonians describe the effective dynamic of a quantum particle in aperiodic media. No restrictions on the structure of these operators other than general regularity assumptions are imposed. In particular, nearest-neighbor correlation is not necessary. Examples for the Fibonacci and the Golay-Rudin-Shapiro sequences are explicitly provided illustrating this discussion. While the first sequence has been thoroughly studied by physicists and mathematicians alike, a shroud of mystery still surrounds the latter when it comes to spectral properties. In light of this, the present paper gives a new result here that might help uncovering a solution. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0011488 SN - 0022-2488 SN - 1089-7658 VL - 61 IS - 12 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beckus, Siegfried A1 - Eliaz, Latif T1 - Eigenfunctions growth of R-limits on graphs JF - Journal of spectral theory / European Mathematical Society N2 - A characterization of the essential spectrum of Schrodinger operators on infinite graphs is derived involving the concept of R-limits. This concept, which was introduced previously for operators on N and Z(d) as "right-limits," captures the behaviour of the operator at infinity. For graphs with sub-exponential growth rate, we show that each point in sigma(ss)(H) corresponds to a bounded generalized eigenfunction of a corresponding R-limit of H. If, additionally, the graph is of uniform sub-exponential growth, also the converse inclusion holds. KW - Essential spectrum KW - Schrodinger operators KW - graphs KW - right limits KW - generalized eigenfunctions Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4171/JST/389 SN - 1664-039X SN - 1664-0403 VL - 11 IS - 4 SP - 1895 EP - 1933 PB - EMS Press, an imprint of the European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH, Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beckus, Siegfried A1 - Pinchover, Yehuda T1 - Shnol-type theorem for the Agmon ground state JF - Journal of spectral theory N2 - LetH be a Schrodinger operator defined on a noncompact Riemannianmanifold Omega, and let W is an element of L-infinity (Omega; R). Suppose that the operator H + W is critical in Omega, and let phi be the corresponding Agmon ground state. We prove that if u is a generalized eigenfunction ofH satisfying vertical bar u vertical bar <= C-phi in Omega for some constant C > 0, then the corresponding eigenvalue is in the spectrum of H. The conclusion also holds true if for some K is an element of Omega the operator H admits a positive solution in (Omega) over bar = Omega \ K, and vertical bar u vertical bar <= C psi in (Omega) over bar for some constant C > 0, where psi is a positive solution of minimal growth in a neighborhood of infinity in Omega. Under natural assumptions, this result holds also in the context of infinite graphs, and Dirichlet forms. KW - Shnol theorem KW - Caccioppoli inequality KW - Schrodinger operators KW - generalized eigenfunction KW - ground state KW - positive solutions KW - weighted KW - graphs Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4171/JST/296 SN - 1664-039X SN - 1664-0403 VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - 355 EP - 377 PB - EMS Publishing House CY - Zürich ER - TY - THES A1 - Behm, Sebastian T1 - Pseudo-differential operators with parameters on manifolds with edges Y1 - 1995 PB - Univ. CY - Potsdam ER - TY - THES A1 - Beinrucker, Andre T1 - Variable selection in high dimensional data analysis with applications Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beinrucker, Andre A1 - Dogan, Urun A1 - Blanchard, Gilles T1 - Extensions of stability selection using subsamples of observations and covariates JF - Statistics and Computing N2 - We introduce extensions of stability selection, a method to stabilise variable selection methods introduced by Meinshausen and Buhlmann (J R Stat Soc 72:417-473, 2010). We propose to apply a base selection method repeatedly to random subsamples of observations and subsets of covariates under scrutiny, and to select covariates based on their selection frequency. We analyse the effects and benefits of these extensions. Our analysis generalizes the theoretical results of Meinshausen and Buhlmann (J R Stat Soc 72:417-473, 2010) from the case of half-samples to subsamples of arbitrary size. We study, in a theoretical manner, the effect of taking random covariate subsets using a simplified score model. Finally we validate these extensions on numerical experiments on both synthetic and real datasets, and compare the obtained results in detail to the original stability selection method. KW - Variable selection KW - Stability selection KW - Subsampling Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-015-9589-y SN - 0960-3174 SN - 1573-1375 VL - 26 SP - 1059 EP - 1077 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bellingeri, Carlo A1 - Friz, Peter A1 - Paycha, Sylvie A1 - Preiß, Rosa Lili Dora T1 - Smooth rough paths, their geometry and algebraic renormalization JF - Vietnam journal of mathematics N2 - 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. KW - Signatures KW - Rough paths KW - Cartan's development KW - Renormalization Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10013-022-00570-7 SN - 2305-221X SN - 2305-2228 VL - 50 IS - 3 SP - 719 EP - 761 PB - Springer CY - Singapore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Benini, Marco T1 - Optimal space of linear classical observables for Maxwell k-forms via spacelike and timelike compact de Rham cohomologies JF - Journal of mathematical physics N2 - Being motivated by open questions in gauge field theories, we consider non-standard de Rham cohomology groups for timelike compact and spacelike compact support systems. These cohomology groups are shown to be isomorphic respectively to the usual de Rham cohomology of a spacelike Cauchy surface and its counterpart with compact support. Furthermore, an analog of the usual Poincare duality for de Rham cohomology is shown to hold for the case with non-standard supports as well. We apply these results to find optimal spaces of linear observables for analogs of arbitrary degree k of both the vector potential and the Faraday tensor. The term optimal has to be intended in the following sense: The spaces of linear observables we consider distinguish between different configurations; in addition to that, there are no redundant observables. This last point in particular heavily relies on the analog of Poincare duality for the new cohomology groups. Published by AIP Publishing. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4947563 SN - 0022-2488 SN - 1089-7658 VL - 57 SP - 1249 EP - 1279 PB - American Institute of Physics CY - Melville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Benini, Marco A1 - Capoferri, Matteo A1 - Dappiaggi, Claudio T1 - Hadamard States for Quantum Abelian Duality JF - Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré N2 - Abelian duality is realized naturally by combining differential cohomology and locally covariant quantum field theory. This leads to a -algebra of observables, which encompasses the simultaneous discretization of both magnetic and electric fluxes. We discuss the assignment of physically well-behaved states on this algebra and the properties of the associated GNS triple. We show that the algebra of observables factorizes as a suitable tensor product of three -algebras: the first factor encodes dynamical information, while the other two capture topological data corresponding to electric and magnetic fluxes. On the former factor and in the case of ultra-static globally hyperbolic spacetimes with compact Cauchy surfaces, we exhibit a state whose two-point correlation function has the same singular structure of a Hadamard state. Specifying suitable counterparts also on the topological factors, we obtain a state for the full theory, ultimately implementing Abelian duality transformations as Hilbert space isomorphisms. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-017-0593-y SN - 1424-0637 SN - 1424-0661 VL - 18 SP - 3325 EP - 3370 PB - Springer CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Benini, Marco A1 - Schenkel, Alexander T1 - Quantum Field Theories on Categories Fibered in Groupoids JF - Communications in mathematical physics N2 - We introduce an abstract concept of quantum field theory on categories fibered in groupoids over the category of spacetimes. This provides us with a general and flexible framework to study quantum field theories defined on spacetimes with extra geometric structures such as bundles, connections and spin structures. Using right Kan extensions, we can assign to any such theory an ordinary quantum field theory defined on the category of spacetimes and we shall clarify under which conditions it satisfies the axioms of locally covariant quantum field theory. The same constructions can be performed in a homotopy theoretic framework by using homotopy right Kan extensions, which allows us to obtain first toy-models of homotopical quantum field theories resembling some aspects of gauge theories. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-017-2986-7 SN - 0010-3616 SN - 1432-0916 VL - 356 SP - 19 EP - 64 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Benini, Marco A1 - Schenkel, Alexander T1 - Poisson Algebras for Non-Linear Field Theories in the Cahiers Topos JF - Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-016-0533-2 SN - 1424-0637 SN - 1424-0661 VL - 18 SP - 1435 EP - 1464 PB - Springer CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bergemann, Kay A1 - Gottwald, Georg A1 - Reich, Sebastian T1 - Ensemble propagation and continuous matrix factorization algorithms N2 - We consider the problem of propagating an ensemble of solutions and its characterization in terms of its mean and covariance matrix. We propose differential equations that lead to a continuous matrix factorization of the ensemble into a generalized singular value decomposition (SVD). The continuous factorization is applied to ensemble propagation under periodic rescaling (ensemble breeding) and under periodic Kalman analysis steps (ensemble Kalman filter). We also use the continuous matrix factorization to perform a re-orthogonalization of the ensemble after each time-step and apply the resulting modified ensemble propagation algorithm to the ensemble Kalman filter. Results from the Lorenz-96 model indicate that the re-orthogonalization of the ensembles leads to improved filter performance. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291477-870X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.457 SN - 0035-9009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bergemann, Kay A1 - Reich, Sebastian T1 - A localization technique for ensemble Kalman filters N2 - Ensemble Kalman filter techniques are widely used to assimilate observations into dynamical models. The phase- space dimension is typically much larger than the number of ensemble members, which leads to inaccurate results in the computed covariance matrices. These inaccuracies can lead, among other things, to spurious long-range correlations, which can be eliminated by Schur-product-based localization techniques. In this article, we propose a new technique for implementing such localization techniques within the class of ensemble transform/square-root Kalman filters. Our approach relies on a continuous embedding of the Kalman filter update for the ensemble members, i.e. we state an ordinary differential equation (ODE) with solutions that, over a unit time interval, are equivalent to the Kalman filter update. The ODE formulation forms a gradient system with the observations as a cost functional. Besides localization, the new ODE ensemble formulation should also find useful application in the context of nonlinear observation operators and observations that arrive continuously in time. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1477-870X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/Qj.591 SN - 0035-9009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bergemann, Kay A1 - Reich, Sebastian T1 - A mollified ensemble Kalman filter N2 - It is well recognized that discontinuous analysis increments of sequential data assimilation systems, such as ensemble Kalman filters, might lead to spurious high-frequency adjustment processes in the model dynamics. Various methods have been devised to spread out the analysis increments continuously over a fixed time interval centred about the analysis time. Among these techniques are nudging and incremental analysis updates (IAU). Here we propose another alternative, which may be viewed as a hybrid of nudging and IAU and which arises naturally from a recently proposed continuous formulation of the ensemble Kalman analysis step. A new slow-fast extension of the popular Lorenz-96 model is introduced to demonstrate the properties of the proposed mollified ensemble Kalman filter. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1477-870X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/Qj.672 SN - 0035-9009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bergemann, Kay A1 - Reich, Sebastian T1 - An ensemble Kalman-Bucy filter for continuous data assimilation JF - Meteorologische Zeitschrift N2 - The ensemble Kalman filter has emerged as a promising filter algorithm for nonlinear differential equations subject to intermittent observations. In this paper, we extend the well-known Kalman-Bucy filter for linear differential equations subject to continous observations to the ensemble setting and nonlinear differential equations. The proposed filter is called the ensemble Kalman-Bucy filter and its performance is demonstrated for a simple mechanical model (Langevin dynamics) subject to incremental observations of its velocity. Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0307 SN - 0941-2948 VL - 21 IS - 3 SP - 213 EP - 219 PB - Schweizerbart CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Berman, Gennady A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich T1 - The dynamics of four wave interactions T3 - Preprint / Universität Potsdam, Institut für Mathematik, Arbeitsgruppe Partiell Y1 - 2004 SN - 1437-739X PB - Univ. CY - Potsdam ER - TY - INPR A1 - Berman, Gennady A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich T1 - Quantum dynamics in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem N2 - We study the dynamics of four wave interactions in a nonlinear quantum chain of oscillators under the "narrow packet" approximation. We determine the set of times for which the evolution of decay processes is essentially specified by quantum effects. Moreover, we highlight the quantum increment of instability. T3 - Preprint - (2004) 05 Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26695 ER - TY - THES A1 - Berner, Nadine T1 - Deciphering multiple changes in complex climate time series using Bayesian inference T1 - Bayes'sche Inferenz als diagnostischer Ansatz zur Untersuchung multipler Übergänge in komplexen Klimazeitreihen N2 - Change points in time series are perceived as heterogeneities in the statistical or dynamical characteristics of the observations. Unraveling such transitions yields essential information for the understanding of the observed system’s intrinsic evolution and potential external influences. A precise detection of multiple changes is therefore of great importance for various research disciplines, such as environmental sciences, bioinformatics and economics. The primary purpose of the detection approach introduced in this thesis is the investigation of transitions underlying direct or indirect climate observations. In order to develop a diagnostic approach capable to capture such a variety of natural processes, the generic statistical features in terms of central tendency and dispersion are employed in the light of Bayesian inversion. In contrast to established Bayesian approaches to multiple changes, the generic approach proposed in this thesis is not formulated in the framework of specialized partition models of high dimensionality requiring prior specification, but as a robust kernel-based approach of low dimensionality employing least informative prior distributions. First of all, a local Bayesian inversion approach is developed to robustly infer on the location and the generic patterns of a single transition. The analysis of synthetic time series comprising changes of different observational evidence, data loss and outliers validates the performance, consistency and sensitivity of the inference algorithm. To systematically investigate time series for multiple changes, the Bayesian inversion is extended to a kernel-based inference approach. By introducing basic kernel measures, the weighted kernel inference results are composed into a proxy probability to a posterior distribution of multiple transitions. The detection approach is applied to environmental time series from the Nile river in Aswan and the weather station Tuscaloosa, Alabama comprising documented changes. The method’s performance confirms the approach as a powerful diagnostic tool to decipher multiple changes underlying direct climate observations. Finally, the kernel-based Bayesian inference approach is used to investigate a set of complex terrigenous dust records interpreted as climate indicators of the African region of the Plio-Pleistocene period. A detailed inference unravels multiple transitions underlying the indirect climate observations, that are interpreted as conjoint changes. The identified conjoint changes coincide with established global climate events. In particular, the two-step transition associated to the establishment of the modern Walker-Circulation contributes to the current discussion about the influence of paleoclimate changes on the environmental conditions in tropical and subtropical Africa at around two million years ago. N2 - Im Allgemeinen stellen punktuelle Veränderungen in Zeitreihen (change points) eine Heterogenität in den statistischen oder dynamischen Charakteristika der Observablen dar. Das Auffinden und die Beschreibung solcher Übergänge bietet grundlegende Informationen über das beobachtete System hinsichtlich seiner intrinsischen Entwicklung sowie potentieller externer Einflüsse. Eine präzise Detektion von Veränderungen ist daher für die verschiedensten Forschungsgebiete, wie den Umweltwissenschaften, der Bioinformatik und den Wirtschaftswissenschaften von großem Interesse. Die primäre Zielsetzung der in der vorliegenden Doktorarbeit vorgestellten Detektionsmethode ist die Untersuchung von direkten als auch indirekten Klimaobservablen auf Veränderungen. Um die damit verbundene Vielzahl an möglichen natürlichen Prozessen zu beschreiben, werden im Rahmen einer Bayes’schen Inversion die generischen statistischen Merkmale Zentraltendenz und Dispersion verwendet. Im Gegensatz zu etablierten Bayes’schen Methoden zur Analyse von multiplen Übergängen, die im Rahmen von Partitionsmodellen hoher Dimensionalität formuliert sind und die Spezifikation von Priorverteilungen erfordern, wird in dieser Doktorarbeit ein generischer, Kernel-basierter Ansatz niedriger Dimensionalität mit minimal informativen Priorverteilungen vorgestellt. Zunächst wird ein lokaler Bayes’scher Inversionsansatz entwickelt, der robuste Rückschlüsse auf die Position und die generischen Charakteristika einer einzelnen Veränderung erlaubt. Durch die Analyse von synthetischen Zeitreihen die dem Einfluss von Veränderungen unterschiedlicher Signifikanz, Datenverlust und Ausreißern unterliegen wird die Leistungsfähigkeit, Konsistenz und Sensitivität der Inversionmethode begründet. Um Zeitreihen auch auf multiple Veränderungen systematisch untersuchen zu können, wird die Methode der Bayes’schen Inversion zu einem Kernel-basierten Ansatz erweitert. Durch die Einführung grundlegender Kernel-Maße können die Kernel-Resultate zu einer gewichteten Wahrscheinlichkeit kombiniert werden die als Proxy einer Posterior-Verteilung multipler Veränderungen dient. Der Detektionsalgorithmus wird auf reale Umweltmessreihen vom Nil-Fluss in Aswan und von der Wetterstation Tuscaloosa, Alabama, angewendet, die jeweils dokumentierte Veränderungen enthalten. Das Ergebnis dieser Analyse bestätigt den entwickelten Ansatz als eine leistungsstarke diagnostische Methode zur Detektion multipler Übergänge in Zeitreihen. Abschließend wird der generische Kernel-basierte Bayes’sche Ansatz verwendet, um eine Reihe von komplexen terrigenen Staubdaten zu untersuchen, die als Klimaindikatoren der afrikanischen Region des Plio-Pleistozän interpretiert werden. Eine detaillierte Untersuchung deutet auf multiple Veränderungen in den indirekten Klimaobservablen hin, von denen einige als gemeinsame Übergänge interpretiert werden. Diese gemeinsam auftretenden Ereignisse stimmen mit etablierten globalen Klimaereignissen überein. Insbesondere der gefundene Zwei-Stufen-Übergang, der mit der Ausbildung der modernen Walker-Zirkulation assoziiert wird, liefert einen wichtigen Beitrag zur aktuellen Diskussion über den Einfluss von paläoklimatischen Veränderungen auf die Umweltbedingungen im tropischen und subtropischen Afrika vor circa zwei Millionen Jahren. KW - kernel-based Bayesian inference KW - multi-change point detection KW - direct and indirect climate observations KW - Plio-Pleistocene KW - (sub-) tropical Africa KW - terrigenous dust KW - kernel-basierte Bayes'sche Inferenz KW - Detektion multipler Übergänge KW - direkte und indirekte Klimaobservablen KW - Plio-Pleistozän KW - (sub-) tropisches Afrika KW - terrigener Staub Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-100065 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bernutat, Claudia A1 - Böckmann, Christine A1 - Ramlau, Ronny T1 - Examination of the Nonlinear LIDAR-Operator : an Inverse Ill-posed Problem Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - THES A1 - Bettenbühl, Mario T1 - Microsaccades T1 - Mikrosakkaden BT - Symbols in fixational eye movements BT - Symbole in den Fixationsbewegungen der Augen N2 - The first thing we do upon waking is open our eyes. Rotating them in our eye sockets, we scan our surroundings and collect the information into a picture in our head. Eye movements can be split into saccades and fixational eye movements, which occur when we attempt to fixate our gaze. The latter consists of microsaccades, drift and tremor. Before we even lift our eye lids, eye movements – such as saccades and microsaccades that let the eyes jump from one to another position – have partially been prepared in the brain stem. Saccades and microsaccades are often assumed to be generated by the same mechanisms. But how saccades and microsaccades can be classified according to shape has not yet been reported in a statistical manner. Research has put more effort into the investigations of microsaccades’ properties and generation only since the last decade. Consequently, we are only beginning to understand the dynamic processes governing microsaccadic eye movements. Within this thesis, the dynamics governing the generation of microsaccades is assessed and the development of a model for the underlying processes. Eye movement trajectories from different experiments are used, recorded with a video-based eye tracking technique, and a novel method is proposed for the scale-invariant detection of saccades (events of large amplitude) and microsaccades (events of small amplitude). Using a time-frequency approach, the method is examined with different experiments and validated against simulated data. A shape model is suggested that allows for a simple estimation of saccade- and microsaccade related properties. For sequences of microsaccades, in this thesis a time-dynamic Markov model is proposed, with a memory horizon that changes over time and which can best describe sequences of microsaccades. N2 - Beim Aufwachen jeden Morgen, ist es das erste, was wir tun: wir öffnen unsere Augen. Wir lassen die Augen rotieren und suchen unsere Umgebung ab. Gleichzeitig wird die gesammelte Information in unserem Gehirn zu einem Bild vereint. Augenbewegungen können getrennt werden in Sakkaden, welche sprunghafte Augenbewegungen darstellen, und Fixationsbewegungen der Augen, letztere bestehend aus Mikrosakkaden, Tremor und Drift. Bevor wir unsere Augen aufschlagen, wurden die Bewegungen bereits teilweise im Hirnstamm vorprogrammiert. So ist dieser Teil unseres Gehirns verantwortlich für die Auslösung einer Sakkade oder Mikrosakkade, worin man versuchen kann auch gleichzeitig einen Zusammenhang für die Generierung dieser Bewegung herzustellen. Es wird vermutet, dass Mikrosakkaden auch als kleinskaligere Sakkade verstanden werden können, welche auftreten, wenn wir versuchen unsere Augen still auf einen Punkt zu fixieren. Bisher gibt es keine statistische Untersuchung bezüglich einer Klassifizierung von Sakkaden und Mikrosakkaden aufgrund ihrer Form, d.h. ihrer räumlichen Entwicklung über die Zeit. Seit Beginn des neuen Milleniums verstärkte sich die Forschung wieder auf die Eigenschaften und Entstehung von Mikrosakkaden. Demnach stehen wir immer noch am Anfang diese Phänomene mit dynamischen Prozessen beschreiben zu können. Der Fokus dieser Arbeit konzentriert sich auf das Verstehen der generierenden Dynamik von Mikrosakkaden. Es wird ein Model für den unterliegenden Prozess entwickelt und getestet. Es wurden Aufzeichnungen von Augenbewegungen aus verschiedenen Experimenten genutzt, jeweils aufgenommen mit einem videobasiertem System. Es wird eine neue Methode zur amplitudenunabhängigen Detektion von Sakkaden eingeführt, um die Zeitpunkte des Auftretens von Mikrosakkaden und Sakkaden zu bestimmen. Dabei werden für Daten verschiedener Experimente Methoden der Zeit-Frequenz-Analyse genutzt und anschließend die Methode validiert mit simulierten Daten. Außerdem wird ein Modell vorgestellt für die formabhängigen Ausprägungen von Sakkaden und Mikrosakkaden, um die Schätzung ihrer beiden physikalisch relevanten Eigenschaften zu erleichtern. Zum Ende der Arbeit wird ein zeitdynamisches Modell für Sequenzen von Mikrosakkadensymbolen aufgezeigt. Mithilfe der Beschreibung der in Symbolsequenzen übersetzten Mikrosakkadensequenzen als Markovketten, wird diese Form der Augenbewegung durch einen stochastischen Prozess beschrieben. Hierbei bestehen zeitliche und räumliche Abhängigkeiten zwischen den aufeinanderfolgenden zeitdiskreten Symbolen und erlauben somit, ein Referenzmodell für einen Teil der Fixationsbewegungen der Augen zu haben. T3 - Potsdam Cognitive Science Series - 5 KW - Mikrosakkaden KW - Fixationsbewegungen der Augen KW - Sakkadendetektion KW - Mikrosakkadensequenzen KW - Waveletanalyse KW - microsaccades KW - fixational eye movements KW - saccade detection KW - sequences of microsaccades KW - wavelet analysis Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-72622 SN - 978-3-86956-122-6 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bettenbühl, Mario A1 - Rusconi, Marco A1 - Engbert, Ralf A1 - Holschneider, Matthias T1 - Bayesian selection of Markov Models for symbol sequences application to microsaccadic eye movements JF - PLoS one N2 - Complex biological dynamics often generate sequences of discrete events which can be described as a Markov process. The order of the underlying Markovian stochastic process is fundamental for characterizing statistical dependencies within sequences. As an example for this class of biological systems, we investigate the Markov order of sequences of microsaccadic eye movements from human observers. We calculate the integrated likelihood of a given sequence for various orders of the Markov process and use this in a Bayesian framework for statistical inference on the Markov order. Our analysis shows that data from most participants are best explained by a first-order Markov process. This is compatible with recent findings of a statistical coupling of subsequent microsaccade orientations. Our method might prove to be useful for a broad class of biological systems. Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043388 SN - 1932-6203 VL - 7 IS - 9 PB - PLoS CY - San Fransisco ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Biskaborn, Boris A1 - Smith, Sharon L. A1 - Noetzli, Jeannette A1 - Matthes, Heidrun A1 - Vieira, Goncalo A1 - Streletskiy, Dmitry A. A1 - Schoeneich, Philippe A1 - Romanovsky, Vladimir E. A1 - Lewkowicz, Antoni G. A1 - Abramov, Andrey A1 - Allard, Michel A1 - Boike, Julia A1 - Cable, William L. A1 - Christiansen, Hanne H. A1 - Delaloye, Reynald A1 - Diekmann, Bernhard A1 - Drozdov, Dmitry A1 - Etzelmueller, Bernd A1 - Grosse, Guido A1 - Guglielmin, Mauro A1 - Ingeman-Nielsen, Thomas A1 - Isaksen, Ketil A1 - Ishikawa, Mamoru A1 - Johansson, Margareta A1 - Johannsson, Halldor A1 - Joo, Anseok A1 - Kaverin, Dmitry A1 - Kholodov, Alexander A1 - Konstantinov, Pavel A1 - Kroeger, Tim A1 - Lambiel, Christophe A1 - Lanckman, Jean-Pierre A1 - Luo, Dongliang A1 - Malkova, Galina A1 - Meiklejohn, Ian A1 - Moskalenko, Natalia A1 - Oliva, Marc A1 - Phillips, Marcia A1 - Ramos, Miguel A1 - Sannel, A. Britta K. A1 - Sergeev, Dmitrii A1 - Seybold, Cathy A1 - Skryabin, Pavel A1 - Vasiliev, Alexander A1 - Wu, Qingbai A1 - Yoshikawa, Kenji A1 - Zheleznyak, Mikhail A1 - Lantuit, Hugues T1 - Permafrost is warming at a global scale JF - Nature Communications N2 - Permafrost warming has the potential to amplify global climate change, because when frozen sediments thaw it unlocks soil organic carbon. Yet to date, no globally consistent assessment of permafrost temperature change has been compiled. Here we use a global data set of permafrost temperature time series from the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost to evaluate temperature change across permafrost regions for the period since the International Polar Year (2007-2009). During the reference decade between 2007 and 2016, ground temperature near the depth of zero annual amplitude in the continuous permafrost zone increased by 0.39 +/- 0.15 degrees C. Over the same period, discontinuous permafrost warmed by 0.20 +/- 0.10 degrees C. Permafrost in mountains warmed by 0.19 +/- 0.05 degrees C and in Antarctica by 0.37 +/- 0.10 degrees C. Globally, permafrost temperature increased by 0.29 +/- 0.12 degrees C. The observed trend follows the Arctic amplification of air temperature increase in the Northern Hemisphere. In the discontinuous zone, however, ground warming occurred due to increased snow thickness while air temperature remained statistically unchanged. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08240-4 SN - 2041-1723 VL - 10 PB - Nature Publ. Group CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Carpentier, Alexandra A1 - Gutzeit, Maurilio T1 - Minimax Euclidean separation rates for testing convex hypotheses in R-d JF - Electronic journal of statistics N2 - We consider composite-composite testing problems for the expectation in the Gaussian sequence model where the null hypothesis corresponds to a closed convex subset C of R-d. We adopt a minimax point of view and our primary objective is to describe the smallest Euclidean distance between the null and alternative hypotheses such that there is a test with small total error probability. In particular, we focus on the dependence of this distance on the dimension d and variance 1/n giving rise to the minimax separation rate. In this paper we discuss lower and upper bounds on this rate for different smooth and non-smooth choices for C. KW - Minimax hypothesis testing KW - Gaussian sequence model KW - nonasymptotic minimax separation rate Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1214/18-EJS1472 SN - 1935-7524 VL - 12 IS - 2 SP - 3713 EP - 3735 PB - Institute of Mathematical Statistics CY - Cleveland ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Delattre, Sylvain A1 - Roquain, Etienne T1 - Testing over a continuum of null hypotheses with False Discovery Rate control JF - Bernoulli : official journal of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability N2 - We consider statistical hypothesis testing simultaneously over a fairly general, possibly uncountably infinite, set of null hypotheses, under the assumption that a suitable single test (and corresponding p-value) is known for each individual hypothesis. We extend to this setting the notion of false discovery rate (FDR) as a measure of type I error. Our main result studies specific procedures based on the observation of the p-value process. Control of the FDR at a nominal level is ensured either under arbitrary dependence of p-values, or under the assumption that the finite dimensional distributions of the p-value process have positive correlations of a specific type (weak PRDS). Both cases generalize existing results established in the finite setting. Its interest is demonstrated in several non-parametric examples: testing the mean/signal in a Gaussian white noise model, testing the intensity of a Poisson process and testing the c.d.f. of i.i.d. random variables. KW - continuous testing KW - false discovery rate KW - multiple testing KW - positive correlation KW - step-up KW - stochastic process Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3150/12-BEJ488 SN - 1350-7265 SN - 1573-9759 VL - 20 IS - 1 SP - 304 EP - 333 PB - International Statistical Institute CY - Voorburg ER - TY - INPR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Delattre, Sylvain A1 - Roquain, Étienne T1 - Testing over a continuum of null hypotheses N2 - We introduce a theoretical framework for performing statistical hypothesis testing simultaneously over a fairly general, possibly uncountably infinite, set of null hypotheses. This extends the standard statistical setting for multiple hypotheses testing, which is restricted to a finite set. This work is motivated by numerous modern applications where the observed signal is modeled by a stochastic process over a continuum. As a measure of type I error, we extend the concept of false discovery rate (FDR) to this setting. The FDR is defined as the average ratio of the measure of two random sets, so that its study presents some challenge and is of some intrinsic mathematical interest. Our main result shows how to use the p-value process to control the FDR at a nominal level, either under arbitrary dependence of p-values, or under the assumption that the finite dimensional distributions of the p-value process have positive correlations of a specific type (weak PRDS). Both cases generalize existing results established in the finite setting, the latter one leading to a less conservative procedure. The interest of this approach is demonstrated in several non-parametric examples: testing the mean/signal in a Gaussian white noise model, testing the intensity of a Poisson process and testing the c.d.f. of i.i.d. random variables. Conceptually, an interesting feature of the setting advocated here is that it focuses directly on the intrinsic hypothesis space associated with a testing model on a random process, without referring to an arbitrary discretization. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1 (2012) 1 Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-56877 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Dickhaus, Thorsten A1 - Roquain, Etienne A1 - Villers, Fanny T1 - On least favorable configurations for step-up-down tests JF - Statistica Sinica KW - False discovery rate KW - least favorable configuration KW - multiple testing; Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5705/ss.2011.205 SN - 1017-0405 SN - 1996-8507 VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - U31 PB - Statistica Sinica, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica CY - Taipei ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Flaska, Marek A1 - Handy, Gregory A1 - Pozzi, Sara A1 - Scott, Clayton T1 - Classification with asymmetric label noise: Consistency and maximal denoising JF - Electronic journal of statistics N2 - In many real-world classification problems, the labels of training examples are randomly corrupted. Most previous theoretical work on classification with label noise assumes that the two classes are separable, that the label noise is independent of the true class label, or that the noise proportions for each class are known. In this work, we give conditions that are necessary and sufficient for the true class-conditional distributions to be identifiable. These conditions are weaker than those analyzed previously, and allow for the classes to be nonseparable and the noise levels to be asymmetric and unknown. The conditions essentially state that a majority of the observed labels are correct and that the true class-conditional distributions are "mutually irreducible," a concept we introduce that limits the similarity of the two distributions. For any label noise problem, there is a unique pair of true class-conditional distributions satisfying the proposed conditions, and we argue that this pair corresponds in a certain sense to maximal denoising of the observed distributions. Our results are facilitated by a connection to "mixture proportion estimation," which is the problem of estimating the maximal proportion of one distribution that is present in another. We establish a novel rate of convergence result for mixture proportion estimation, and apply this to obtain consistency of a discrimination rule based on surrogate loss minimization. Experimental results on benchmark data and a nuclear particle classification problem demonstrate the efficacy of our approach. KW - Classification KW - label noise KW - mixture proportion estimation KW - surrogate loss KW - consistency Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1214/16-EJS1193 SN - 1935-7524 VL - 10 SP - 2780 EP - 2824 PB - Institute of Mathematical Statistics CY - Cleveland ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Hoffmann, Marc A1 - Reiss, Markus T1 - Optimal adaptation for early stopping in statistical inverse problems JF - SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification N2 - For linear inverse problems Y = A mu + zeta, it is classical to recover the unknown signal mu by iterative regularization methods ((mu) over cap,(m) = 0,1, . . .) and halt at a data-dependent iteration tau using some stopping rule, typically based on a discrepancy principle, so that the weak (or prediction) squared-error parallel to A((mu) over cap (()(tau)) - mu)parallel to(2) is controlled. In the context of statistical estimation with stochastic noise zeta, we study oracle adaptation (that is, compared to the best possible stopping iteration) in strong squared- error E[parallel to((mu) over cap (()(tau)) - mu)parallel to(2)]. For a residual-based stopping rule oracle adaptation bounds are established for general spectral regularization methods. The proofs use bias and variance transfer techniques from weak prediction error to strong L-2-error, as well as convexity arguments and concentration bounds for the stochastic part. Adaptive early stopping for the Landweber method is studied in further detail and illustrated numerically. KW - linear inverse problems KW - early stopping KW - discrepancy principle KW - adaptive estimation KW - oracle inequality KW - Landweber iteration Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1137/17M1154096 SN - 2166-2525 VL - 6 IS - 3 SP - 1043 EP - 1075 PB - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Hoffmann, Marc A1 - Reiss, Markus T1 - Early stopping for statistical inverse problems via truncated SVD estimation JF - Electronic journal of statistics N2 - We consider truncated SVD (or spectral cut-off, projection) estimators for a prototypical statistical inverse problem in dimension D. Since calculating the singular value decomposition (SVD) only for the largest singular values is much less costly than the full SVD, our aim is to select a data-driven truncation level (m) over cap is an element of {1, . . . , D} only based on the knowledge of the first (m) over cap singular values and vectors. We analyse in detail whether sequential early stopping rules of this type can preserve statistical optimality. Information-constrained lower bounds and matching upper bounds for a residual based stopping rule are provided, which give a clear picture in which situation optimal sequential adaptation is feasible. Finally, a hybrid two-step approach is proposed which allows for classical oracle inequalities while considerably reducing numerical complexity. KW - Linear inverse problems KW - truncated SVD KW - spectral cut-off KW - early stopping KW - discrepancy principle KW - adaptive estimation KW - oracle inequalities Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1214/18-EJS1482 SN - 1935-7524 VL - 12 IS - 2 SP - 3204 EP - 3231 PB - Institute of Mathematical Statistics CY - Cleveland ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Kawanabe, Motoaki A1 - Sugiyama, Masashi A1 - Spokoiny, Vladimir G. A1 - Müller, Klaus-Robert T1 - In search of non-Gaussian components of a high-dimensional distribution N2 - Finding non-Gaussian components of high-dimensional data is an important preprocessing step for efficient information processing. This article proposes a new linear method to identify the '' non-Gaussian subspace '' within a very general semi-parametric framework. Our proposed method, called NGCA (non-Gaussian component analysis), is based on a linear operator which, to any arbitrary nonlinear (smooth) function, associates a vector belonging to the low dimensional non-Gaussian target subspace, up to an estimation error. By applying this operator to a family of different nonlinear functions, one obtains a family of different vectors lying in a vicinity of the target space. As a final step, the target space itself is estimated by applying PCA to this family of vectors. We show that this procedure is consistent in the sense that the estimaton error tends to zero at a parametric rate, uniformly over the family, Numerical examples demonstrate the usefulness of our method Y1 - 2006 UR - http://portal.acm.org/affiliated/jmlr/ SN - 1532-4435 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Kraemer, Nicole T1 - Convergence rates of Kernel Conjugate Gradient for random design regression JF - Analysis and applications N2 - We prove statistical rates of convergence for kernel-based least squares regression from i.i.d. data using a conjugate gradient (CG) algorithm, where regularization against over-fitting is obtained by early stopping. This method is related to Kernel Partial Least Squares, a regression method that combines supervised dimensionality reduction with least squares projection. Following the setting introduced in earlier related literature, we study so-called "fast convergence rates" depending on the regularity of the target regression function (measured by a source condition in terms of the kernel integral operator) and on the effective dimensionality of the data mapped into the kernel space. We obtain upper bounds, essentially matching known minimax lower bounds, for the L-2 (prediction) norm as well as for the stronger Hilbert norm, if the true regression function belongs to the reproducing kernel Hilbert space. If the latter assumption is not fulfilled, we obtain similar convergence rates for appropriate norms, provided additional unlabeled data are available. KW - Nonparametric regression KW - reproducing kernel Hilbert space KW - conjugate gradient KW - partial least squares KW - minimax convergence rates Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219530516400017 SN - 0219-5305 SN - 1793-6861 VL - 14 SP - 763 EP - 794 PB - World Scientific CY - Singapore ER - TY - INPR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Krämer, Nicole T1 - Convergence rates of kernel conjugate gradient for random design regression N2 - We prove statistical rates of convergence for kernel-based least squares regression from i.i.d. data using a conjugate gradient algorithm, where regularization against overfitting is obtained by early stopping. This method is related to Kernel Partial Least Squares, a regression method that combines supervised dimensionality reduction with least squares projection. Following the setting introduced in earlier related literature, we study so-called "fast convergence rates" depending on the regularity of the target regression function (measured by a source condition in terms of the kernel integral operator) and on the effective dimensionality of the data mapped into the kernel space. We obtain upper bounds, essentially matching known minimax lower bounds, for the L^2 (prediction) norm as well as for the stronger Hilbert norm, if the true regression function belongs to the reproducing kernel Hilbert space. If the latter assumption is not fulfilled, we obtain similar convergence rates for appropriate norms, provided additional unlabeled data are available. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 5 (2016) 8 KW - nonparametric regression KW - reproducing kernel Hilbert space KW - conjugate gradient KW - partial least squares KW - minimax convergence rates Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-94195 SN - 2193-6943 VL - 5 IS - 8 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Mathe, Peter T1 - Discrepancy principle for statistical inverse problems with application to conjugate gradient iteration JF - Inverse problems : an international journal of inverse problems, inverse methods and computerised inversion of data N2 - The authors discuss the use of the discrepancy principle for statistical inverse problems, when the underlying operator is of trace class. Under this assumption the discrepancy principle is well defined, however a plain use of it may occasionally fail and it will yield sub-optimal rates. Therefore, a modification of the discrepancy is introduced, which corrects both of the above deficiencies. For a variety of linear regularization schemes as well as for conjugate gradient iteration it is shown to yield order optimal a priori error bounds under general smoothness assumptions. A posteriori error control is also possible, however at a sub-optimal rate, in general. This study uses and complements previous results for bounded deterministic noise. Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/0266-5611/28/11/115011 SN - 0266-5611 VL - 28 IS - 11 PB - IOP Publ. Ltd. CY - Bristol ER - TY - INPR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Mathé, Peter T1 - Discrepancy principle for statistical inverse problems with application to conjugate gradient iteration N2 - The authors discuss the use of the discrepancy principle for statistical inverse problems, when the underlying operator is of trace class. Under this assumption the discrepancy principle is well defined, however a plain use of it may occasionally fail and it will yield sub-optimal rates. Therefore, a modification of the discrepancy is introduced, which takes into account both of the above deficiencies. For a variety of linear regularization schemes as well as for conjugate gradient iteration this modification is shown to yield order optimal a priori error bounds under general smoothness assumptions. A posteriori error control is also possible, however at a sub-optimal rate, in general. This study uses and complements previous results for bounded deterministic noise. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1 (2012) 7 Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57117 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Mücke, Nicole T1 - Optimal rates for regularization of statistical inverse learning problems JF - Foundations of Computational Mathematics N2 - We consider a statistical inverse learning (also called inverse regression) 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 additive 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 dependency of the constant factor in the variance of the noise and the radius of the source condition set. KW - Reproducing kernel Hilbert space KW - Spectral regularization KW - Inverse problem KW - Statistical learning KW - Minimax convergence rates Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10208-017-9359-7 SN - 1615-3375 SN - 1615-3383 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 971 EP - 1013 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Mücke, Nicole T1 - Kernel regression, minimax rates and effective dimensionality BT - beyond the regular case JF - Analysis and applications N2 - We investigate if kernel regularization methods can achieve minimax convergence rates over a source condition regularity assumption for the target function. These questions have been considered in past literature, but only under specific assumptions about the decay, typically polynomial, of the spectrum of the the kernel mapping covariance operator. In the perspective of distribution-free results, we investigate this issue under much weaker assumption on the eigenvalue decay, allowing for more complex behavior that can reflect different structure of the data at different scales. KW - Kernel regression KW - minimax optimality KW - eigenvalue decay Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219530519500258 SN - 0219-5305 SN - 1793-6861 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 683 EP - 696 PB - World Scientific CY - New Jersey ER - TY - INPR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Mücke, Nicole T1 - Optimal rates for regularization of statistical inverse learning problems N2 - 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. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 5 (2016) 5 KW - statistical inverse problem KW - minimax rate KW - kernel method Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-89782 SN - 2193-6943 VL - 5 IS - 5 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - GEN A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Scott, Clayton T1 - Corrigendum to: Classification with asymmetric label noise BT - Consistency and maximal denoising T2 - Electronic journal of statistics N2 - We point out a flaw in Lemma 15 of [1]. We also indicate how the main results of that section are still valid using a modified argument. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1214/18-EJS1422 SN - 1935-7524 VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 1779 EP - 1781 PB - Institute of Mathematical Statistics CY - Cleveland ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blanchard, Gilles A1 - Zadorozhnyi, Oleksandr T1 - Concentration of weakly dependent Banach-valued sums and applications to statistical learning methods JF - Bernoulli : official journal of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability N2 - We obtain a Bernstein-type inequality for sums of Banach-valued random variables satisfying a weak dependence assumption of general type and under certain smoothness assumptions of the underlying Banach norm. We use this inequality in order to investigate in the asymptotical regime the error upper bounds for the broad family of spectral regularization methods for reproducing kernel decision rules, when trained on a sample coming from a tau-mixing process. KW - Banach-valued process KW - Bernstein inequality KW - concentration KW - spectral regularization KW - weak dependence Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3150/18-BEJ1095 SN - 1350-7265 SN - 1573-9759 VL - 25 IS - 4B SP - 3421 EP - 3458 PB - International Statistical Institute CY - Voorburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Boehm, Thorsten A1 - Holschneider, Matthias A1 - Lignieres, Frederic A1 - Petit, Pascal A1 - Rainer, Monica A1 - Paletou, Francois A1 - Wade, Gregg A1 - Alecian, Evelyne A1 - Carfantan, Herve A1 - Blazere, Aurore A1 - Mirouh, Giovanni M. T1 - Discovery of starspots on Vega First spectroscopic detection of surface structures on a normal A-type star JF - Astronomy and astrophysics : an international weekly journal N2 - Context. The theoretically studied impact of rapid rotation on stellar evolution needs to be compared with these results of high-resolution spectroscopy-velocimetry observations. Early-type stars present a perfect laboratory for these studies. The prototype A0 star Vega has been extensively monitored in recent years in spectropolarimetry. A weak surface magnetic field was detected, implying that there might be a (still undetected) structured surface. First indications of the presence of small amplitude stellar radial velocity variations have been reported recently, but the confirmation and in-depth study with the highly stabilized spectrograph SOPHIE/OHP was required. Aims. The goal of this article is to present a thorough analysis of the line profile variations and associated estimators in the early-type standard star Vega (A0) in order to reveal potential activity tracers, exoplanet companions, and stellar oscillations. Methods. Vega was monitored in quasi-continuous high-resolution echelle spectroscopy with the highly stabilized velocimeter SOPHIE/OHP. A total of 2588 high signal-to-noise spectra was obtained during 34.7 h on five nights (2 to 6 of August 2012) in high-resolution mode at R = 75 000 and covering the visible domain from 3895 6270 angstrom. For each reduced spectrum, least square deconvolved equivalent photospheric profiles were calculated with a T-eff = 9500 and log g = 4.0 spectral line mask. Several methods were applied to study the dynamic behaviour of the profile variations (evolution of radial velocity, bisectors, vspan, 2D profiles, amongst others). Results. We present the discovery of a spotted stellar surface on an A-type standard star (Vega) with very faint spot amplitudes Delta F/Fc similar to 5 x 10(-4). A rotational modulation of spectral lines with a period of rotation P = 0.68 d has clearly been exhibited, unambiguously confirming the results of previous spectropolarimetric studies. Most of these brightness inhomogeneities seem to be located in lower equatorial latitudes. Either a very thin convective layer can be responsible for magnetic field generation at small amplitudes, or a new mechanism has to be invoked to explain the existence of activity tracing starspots. At this stage it is difficult to disentangle a rotational from a stellar pulsational origin for the existing higher frequency periodic variations. Conclusions. This first strong evidence that standard A-type stars can show surface structures opens a new field of research and ask about a potential link with the recently discovered weak magnetic field discoveries in this category of stars. KW - starspots KW - stars: early-type KW - stars: rotation KW - stars: oscillations KW - stars: individual: Vega KW - asteroseismology Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425425 SN - 0004-6361 SN - 1432-0746 VL - 577 PB - EDP Sciences CY - Les Ulis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Boldrighini, Carlo A1 - Frigio, Sandro A1 - Maponi, Pierluigi A1 - Pellegrinotti, Alessandro A1 - Sinai, Yakov G. T1 - 3-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations: Complex blow-up and related real flows JF - Lectures in pure and applied mathematics KW - random point processes KW - statistical mechanics KW - stochastic analysis Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-472201 SN - 978-3-86956-485-2 SN - 2199-4951 SN - 2199-496X IS - 6 SP - 185 EP - 194 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bomanson, Jori A1 - Janhunen, Tomi A1 - Schaub, Torsten A1 - Gebser, Martin A1 - Kaufmann, Benjamin T1 - Answer Set Programming Modulo Acyclicity JF - Fundamenta informaticae N2 - Acyclicity constraints are prevalent in knowledge representation and applications where acyclic data structures such as DAGs and trees play a role. Recently, such constraints have been considered in the satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) framework, and in this paper we carry out an analogous extension to the answer set programming (ASP) paradigm. The resulting formalism, ASP modulo acyclicity, offers a rich set of primitives to express constraints related to recursive structures. In the technical results of the paper, we relate the new generalization with standard ASP by showing (i) how acyclicity extensions translate into normal rules, (ii) how weight constraint programs can be instrumented by acyclicity extensions to capture stability in analogy to unfounded set checking, and (iii) how the gap between supported and stable models is effectively closed in the presence of such an extension. Moreover, we present an efficient implementation of acyclicity constraints by incorporating a respective propagator into the state-of-the-art ASP solver CLASP. The implementation provides a unique combination of traditional unfounded set checking with acyclicity propagation. In the experimental part, we evaluate the interplay of these orthogonal checks by equipping logic programs with supplementary acyclicity constraints. The performance results show that native support for acyclicity constraints is a worthwhile addition, furnishing a complementary modeling construct in ASP itself as well as effective means for translation-based ASP solving. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/FI-2016-1398 SN - 0169-2968 SN - 1875-8681 VL - 147 SP - 63 EP - 91 PB - IOS Press CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bourne, D. P. A1 - Cushing, D. A1 - Liu, S. A1 - Münch, Florentin A1 - Peyerimhoff, Norbert T1 - Ollivier-Ricci idleness functions of graphs JF - SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics N2 - We study the Ollivier-Ricci curvature of graphs as a function of the chosen idleness. We show that this idleness function is concave and piecewise linear with at most three linear parts, and at most two linear parts in the case of a regular graph. We then apply our result to show that the idleness function of the Cartesian product of two regular graphs is completely determined by the idleness functions of the factors. KW - Ollivier-Ricci KW - idleness KW - optimal transport Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1137/17M1134469 SN - 0895-4801 SN - 1095-7146 VL - 32 IS - 2 SP - 1408 EP - 1424 PB - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bovier, Anton A1 - Eckhoff, Michael A1 - Gayrard, Veronique A1 - Klein, Markus T1 - Metastability in reversible diffusion processes : I. Sharp asymptotics for capacities and exit times N2 - We develop a potential theoretic approach to the problem of metastability for reversible diffusion processes with generators of the form -epsilonDelta+ delF(.) del on R-d or subsets of R-d, where F is a smooth function with finitely many local minima. In analogy to previous work on discrete Markov chains, we show that metastable exit times from the attractive domains of the minima of F can be related, up to multiplicative errors that tend to one as epsilon down arrow 0, to the capacities of suitably constructed sets. We show that these capacities can be computed, again up to multiplicative errors that tend to one, in terms of local characteristics of F at the starting minimum and the relevant saddle points. As a result, we are able to give the first rigorous proof of the classical Eyring - Kramers formula in dimension larger than 1. The estimates on capacities make use of their variational representation and monotonicity properties of Dirichlet forms. The methods developed here are extensions of our earlier work on discrete Markov chains to continuous diffusion processes Y1 - 2004 SN - 1435-9855 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bovier, Anton A1 - Eckhoff, Michael A1 - Gayrard, Veronique A1 - Klein, Markus T1 - Metastability and low-Lying spectra in reversible Markov chains Y1 - 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bovier, Anton A1 - Eckhoff, Michael A1 - Gayrard, Veronique A1 - Klein, Markus T1 - Metastability in stochastic dynamics of disordered mean-field models Y1 - 2001 SN - 0178-8051 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bovier, Anton A1 - Gayrard, Veronique A1 - Klein, Markus T1 - Metastability in reversible diffusion processes : II. Precise asymptotics for small eigenvalues N2 - We continue the analysis of the problem of metastability for reversible diffusion processes, initiated in [BEGK3], with a precise analysis of the low-lying spectrum of the generator. Recall that we are considering processes with generators of the form -epsilonDelta + delF(.) del on R-d or subsets of Rd, where F is a smooth function with finitely many local minima. Here we consider only the generic situation where the depths of all local minima are different. We show that in general the exponentially small part of the spectrum is given, up to multiplicative errors tending to one, by the eigenvalues of the classical capacity matrix of the array of capacitors made of balls of radius epsilon centered at the positions of the local minima of F. We also get very precise uniform control on the corresponding eigenfunctions. Moreover, these eigenvalues can be identified with the same precision with the inverse mean metastable exit times from each minimum. In [BEGK3] it was proven that these mean times are given, again up to multiplicative errors that tend to one, by the classical Eyring- Kramers formula Y1 - 2005 SN - 1435-9855 ER - TY - THES A1 - Branding, Volker T1 - The evolution equations for Dirac-harmonic Maps T1 - Die Evolutionsgleichungen für Dirac-harmonische Abbildungen N2 - This thesis investigates the gradient flow of Dirac-harmonic maps. Dirac-harmonic maps are critical points of an energy functional that is motivated from supersymmetric field theories. The critical points of this energy functional couple the equation for harmonic maps with spinor fields. At present, many analytical properties of Dirac-harmonic maps are known, but a general existence result is still missing. In this thesis the existence question is studied using the evolution equations for a regularized version of Dirac-harmonic maps. Since the energy functional for Dirac-harmonic maps is unbounded from below the method of the gradient flow cannot be applied directly. Thus, we first of all consider a regularization prescription for Dirac-harmonic maps and then study the gradient flow. Chapter 1 gives some background material on harmonic maps/harmonic spinors and summarizes the current known results about Dirac-harmonic maps. Chapter 2 introduces the notion of Dirac-harmonic maps in detail and presents a regularization prescription for Dirac-harmonic maps. In Chapter 3 the evolution equations for regularized Dirac-harmonic maps are introduced. In addition, the evolution of certain energies is discussed. Moreover, the existence of a short-time solution to the evolution equations is established. Chapter 4 analyzes the evolution equations in the case that the domain manifold is a closed curve. Here, the existence of a smooth long-time solution is proven. Moreover, for the regularization being large enough, it is shown that the evolution equations converge to a regularized Dirac-harmonic map. Finally, it is discussed in which sense the regularization can be removed. In Chapter 5 the evolution equations are studied when the domain manifold is a closed Riemmannian spin surface. For the regularization being large enough, the existence of a global weak solution, which is smooth away from finitely many singularities is proven. It is shown that the evolution equations converge weakly to a regularized Dirac-harmonic map. In addition, it is discussed if the regularization can be removed in this case. N2 - Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht den Gradientenfluss von Dirac-harmonischen Abbildungen. Dirac-harmonische Abbildungen sind kritische Punkte eines Energiefunktionals, welches aus supersymmetrischen Feldtheorien motiviert ist. Die kritischen Punkte dieses Energiefunktionals koppeln die Gleichung für harmonische Abbildungen mit Spinorfeldern. Viele analytische Eigenschaften von Dirac-harmonischen Abbildungen sind bereits bekannt, ein allgemeines Existenzresultat wurde aber noch nicht erzielt. Diese Dissertation untersucht das Existenzproblem, indem der Gradientenfluss von einer regularisierten Version Dirac-harmonischer Abbildungen untersucht wird. Die Methode des Gradientenflusses kann nicht direkt angewendet werden, da das Energiefunktional für Dirac-harmonische Abbildungen nach unten unbeschränkt ist. Daher wird zunächst eine Regularisierungsvorschrift für Dirac-harmonische Abbildungen eingeführt und dann der Gradientenfluss betrachtet. Kapitel 1 stellt für die Arbeit wichtige Resultate über harmonische Abbildungen/harmonische Spinoren zusammen. Außerdem werden die zur Zeit bekannten Resultate über Dirac-harmonische Abbildungen zusammengefasst. In Kapitel 2 werden Dirac-harmonische Abbildungen im Detail eingeführt, außerdem wird eine Regularisierungsvorschrift präsentiert. Kapitel 3 führt die Evolutionsgleichungen für regularisierte Dirac-harmonische Abbildungen ein. Zusätzlich wird die Evolution von verschiedenen Energien diskutiert. Schließlich wird die Existenz einer Kurzzeitlösung bewiesen. In Kapitel 4 werden die Evolutionsgleichungen für den Fall analysiert, dass die Ursprungsmannigfaltigkeit eine geschlossene Kurve ist. Die Existenz einer Langzeitlösung der Evolutionsgleichungen wird bewiesen. Es wird außerdem gezeigt, dass die Evolutionsgleichungen konvergieren, falls die Regularisierung groß genug gewählt wurde. Schließlich wird diskutiert, ob die Regularisierung wieder entfernt werden kann. Kapitel 5 schlussendlich untersucht die Evolutionsgleichungen für den Fall, dass die Ursprungsmannigfaltigkeit eine geschlossene Riemannsche Spin Fläche ist. Es wird die Existenz einer global schwachen Lösung bewiesen, welche bis auf endlich viele Singularitäten glatt ist. Die Lösung konvergiert im schwachen Sinne gegen eine regularisierte Dirac-harmonische Abbildung. Auch hier wird schließlich untersucht, ob die Regularisierung wieder entfernt werden kann. KW - Dirac-harmonische Abbildungen KW - Gradientenfluss KW - Wärmefluss KW - Spin Geometrie KW - nichtlineare partielle Differentialgleichung KW - Dirac-harmonic maps KW - Gradient flow KW - Heat Flow KW - Spin Geometry KW - nonlinear partial differential equations Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-64204 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Branding, Volker A1 - Drukker, Nadav T1 - BPS Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory : examples on hyperbolic submanifolds of space-time N2 - In this paper we present a family of supersymmetric Wilson loops of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in Minkowski space. Our examples focus on curves restricted to hyperbolic submanifolds, H-3 and H-2, of space-time. Generically they preserve two supercharges, but in special cases more, including a case which has not been discussed before, of the hyperbolic line, conformal to the straight line and circle, which is 1/2 BPS. We discuss some general properties of these Wilson loops and their string duals and study special examples in more detail. Generically the string duals propagate on a complexification of AdS(5)xS(5) and in some specific examples the compact sphere is effectively replaced by a de Sitter space. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://prd.aps.org/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/Physrevd.79.106006 SN - 1550-7998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brasche, Johannes F. A1 - Koshmanenko, V. D. A1 - Neidhardt, Hagen T1 - Some new aspects of Krein's extension theory Y1 - 1994 ER -