TY - INPR A1 - Buchholz, Thilo A1 - Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang T1 - Volterra operators and parabolicity : anisotropic pseudo-differential operators N2 - Parabolic equations on manifolds with singularities require a new calculus of anisotropic pseudo-differential operators with operator-valued symbols. The paper develops this theory along the lines of sn abstract wedge calculus with strongly continuous groups of isomorphisms on the involved Banach spaces. The corresponding pseodo-diferential operators are continuous in anisotropic wedge Sobolev spaces, and they form an alegbra. There is then introduced the concept of anisotropic parameter-dependent ellipticity, based on an order reduction variant of the pseudo-differential calculus. The theory is appled to a class of parabolic differential operators, and it is proved the invertibility in Sobolev spaces with exponential weights at infinity in time direction. T3 - Preprint - (1998) 11 Y1 - 1998 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-25231 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bruttel, Lisa Verena A1 - Stolley, Florian T1 - Gender differences in the response to decision power and responsibility BT - Framing effects in a dictator game T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - This paper studies the effects of two different frames on decisions in a dictator game. Before making their allocation decision, dictators read a short text. Depending on the treatment, the text either emphasizes their decision power and freedom of choice or it stresses their responsibility for the receiver’s payoff. Including a control treatment without such a text, three treatments are conducted with a total of 207 dictators. Our results show a different reaction to these texts depending on the dictator’s gender. We find that only men react positively to a text that stresses their responsibility for the receiver, while only women seem to react positively to a text that emphasizes their decision power and freedom of choice. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 135 KW - dictator game KW - framing KW - gender KW - experiment Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-473068 SN - 1867-5808 IS - 135 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brungs, Hans H. A1 - Gräter, Joachim T1 - On central extensions of SL(2, F) admitting left-orderings JF - Journal of Algebra N2 - For an arbitrary euclidean field F we introduce a central extension (G(F), Phi) of SL(2, F) admitting a left-ordering and study its algebraic properties. The elements of G(F) are order preserving bijections of the convex hull of Q in F. If F = R then G(F) is isomorphic to the classical universal covering group of the Lie group SL(2, R). Among other results we show that G(F) is a perfect group which possesses a rank 1 cone of exceptional type. We also prove that its centre is an infinite cyclic group and investigate its normal subgroups. KW - Universal covering group KW - Central extensions of groups KW - Perfect groups KW - Ordered fields KW - Left-ordered groups KW - Order-preserving bijections KW - Euclidean fields Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2017.05.025 SN - 0021-8693 SN - 1090-266X VL - 486 SP - 288 EP - 327 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER - TY - INPR A1 - Brauer, Uwe A1 - Karp, Lavi T1 - Local existence of classical solutions for the Einstein-Euler system using weighted Sobolev spaces of fractional order N2 - We prove the existence of a class of local in time solutions, including static solutions, of the Einstein-Euler system. This result is the relativistic generalisation of a similar result for the Euler-Poisson system obtained by Gamblin [8]. As in his case the initial data of the density do not have compact support but fall off at infinity in an appropriate manner. An essential tool in our approach is the construction and use of weighted Sobolev spaces of fractional order. Moreover, these new spaces allow us to improve the regularity conditions for the solutions of evolution equations. The details of this construction, the properties of these spaces and results on elliptic and hyperbolic equations will be presented in a forthcoming article. T3 - Preprint - (2006) 17 Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-30175 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Brauer, Uwe A1 - Karp, Lavi T1 - Well-posedness of Einstein-Euler systems in asymptotically flat spacetimes N2 - We prove a local in time existence and uniqueness theorem of classical solutions of the coupled Einstein{Euler system, and therefore establish the well posedness of this system. We use the condition that the energy density might vanish or tends to zero at infinity and that the pressure is a certain function of the energy density, conditions which are used to describe simplified stellar models. In order to achieve our goals we are enforced, by the complexity of the problem, to deal with these equations in a new type of weighted Sobolev spaces of fractional order. Beside their construction, we develop tools for PDEs and techniques for hyperbolic and elliptic equations in these spaces. The well posedness is obtained in these spaces. T3 - Preprint - (2008) 07 Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-30347 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Bilò, Davide A1 - Lenzner, Pascal T1 - On the tree conjecture for the network creation game JF - Theory of computing systems N2 - Selfish Network Creation focuses on modeling real world networks from a game-theoretic point of view. One of the classic models by Fabrikant et al. (2003) is the network creation game, where agents correspond to nodes in a network which buy incident edges for the price of alpha per edge to minimize their total distance to all other nodes. The model is well-studied but still has intriguing open problems. The most famous conjectures state that the price of anarchy is constant for all alpha and that for alpha >= n all equilibrium networks are trees. We introduce a novel technique for analyzing stable networks for high edge-price alpha and employ it to improve on the best known bound for the latter conjecture. In particular we show that for alpha > 4n - 13 all equilibrium networks must be trees, which implies a constant price of anarchy for this range of alpha. Moreover, we also improve the constant upper bound on the price of anarchy for equilibrium trees. KW - network creation games KW - price of anarchy KW - tree conjecture KW - algorithmic KW - game theory Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00224-019-09945-9 SN - 1432-4350 SN - 1433-0490 VL - 64 IS - 3 SP - 422 EP - 443 PB - Springer CY - New York 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 - 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 - 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 - GEN A1 - Benini, Marco A1 - Schenkel, Alexander T1 - Quantum field theories on categories fibered in groupoids T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe 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. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 895 KW - C-asterisk-algebra KW - observables KW - covariance KW - locality Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-431541 SN - 1866-8372 IS - 895 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 - THES A1 - Beinrucker, Andre T1 - Variable selection in high dimensional data analysis with applications Y1 - 2015 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - THES A1 - Bartels, Knut T1 - Tests zur Modellspezifikation in der nichtlinearen Regression N2 - Als Grundlage vieler statistischer Verfahren wird der Prozess der Entstehung von Daten modelliert, um dann weitere Schätz- und Testverfahren anzuwenden. Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, wie diese Spezifikation für parametrische Modelle selbst getestet werden kann. In Erweiterung bestehender Verfahren werden Tests mit festem Kern eingeführt und ihre asymptotischen Eigenschaften werden analysiert. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Bestimmung der kritischen Werte mit mehreren Stichprobenwiederholungsverfahren möglich ist. Von diesen ist eine neue Monte-Carlo-Approximation besonders wichtig, da sie die Komplexität der Berechnung deutlich verringern kann. Ein bedingter Kleinste-Quadrate-Schätzer für nichtlineare parametrische Modelle wird definiert und seine wesentlichen asymptotischen Eigenschaften werden hergeleitet. Sämtliche Versionen der Tests und alle neuen Konzepte wurden in Simulationsstudien untersucht, deren wichtigste Resultate präsentiert werden. Die praktische Anwendbarkeit der Testverfahren wird an einem Datensatz zur Produktwahl dargelegt, der mit multinomialen Logit-Modellen analysiert werden soll. N2 - The data generating process often is modeled as a basis for many subsequent statistical estimation and testing procedures. In this work the question is studied, how this specification of parametric models itself can be tested. In generalization of existing methods, tests with fixed kernel are introduced and their asymptotics are analyzed. It is shown that the determination of critical values is possible using several resampling procedures. Of these a new Monte-Carlo-approximation is of special importance, since it can reduce the complexity of calculation substantially. A conditional least squares estimator for nonlinear models is defined and its essential asymptotic properties are derived. All versions of the tests and all new concepts were studied in simulation studies and the most important results are presented. The applicability of the tests is demonstrated with a dataset on product choice that is to be analyzed with multinomial logit models. KW - nichtlineare Modelle KW - Spezifikationstests KW - Resampling KW - Simulationsstudien Y1 - 1999 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-0000171 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bandara, Menaka Lashitha A1 - Rosén, Andreas T1 - Riesz continuity of the Atiyah–Singer Dirac operator under perturbations of local boundary conditions T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe 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. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 758 KW - boundary value problems KW - Dirac operator KW - functional calculus KW - real-variable harmonic analysis KW - Riesz continuity KW - spectral flow Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434078 SN - 1866-8372 IS - 758 SP - 1253 EP - 1284 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 - 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, 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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Azzali, Sara A1 - Paycha, Sylvie T1 - Spectral zeta-invariants lifted to coverings JF - Transactions of the American Mathematical Society N2 - The canonical trace and the Wodzicki residue on classical pseudo-differential operators on a closed manifold are characterised by their locality and shown to be preserved under lifting to the universal covering as a result of their local feature. As a consequence, we lift a class of spectral zeta-invariants using lifted defect formulae which express discrepancies of zeta-regularised traces in terms of Wodzicki residues. We derive Atiyah's L-2-index theorem as an instance of the Z(2)-graded generalisation of the canonical lift of spectral zeta-invariants and we show that certain lifted spectral zeta-invariants for geometric operators are integrals of Pontryagin and Chern forms. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8067 SN - 0002-9947 SN - 1088-6850 VL - 373 IS - 9 SP - 6185 EP - 6226 PB - American Mathematical Society CY - Providence, RI ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ayanbayev, Birzhan A1 - Klebanov, Ilja A1 - Lie, Han Cheng A1 - Sullivan, Tim J. T1 - Gamma-convergence of Onsager-Machlup functionals BT - II. Infinite product measures on Banach spaces JF - Inverse problems : an international journal of inverse problems, inverse methods and computerised inversion of data N2 - We derive Onsager-Machlup functionals for countable product measures on weighted l(p) subspaces of the sequence space R-N. Each measure in the product is a shifted and scaled copy of a reference probability measure on R that admits a sufficiently regular Lebesgue density. We study the equicoercivity and Gamma-convergence of sequences of Onsager-Machlup functionals associated to convergent sequences of measures within this class. We use these results to establish analogous results for probability measures on separable Banach or Hilbert spaces, including Gaussian, Cauchy, and Besov measures with summability parameter 1 <= p <= 2. Together with part I of this paper, this provides a basis for analysis of the convergence of maximum a posteriori estimators in Bayesian inverse problems and most likely paths in transition path theory. KW - Bayesian inverse problems KW - Gamma-convergence KW - maximum a posteriori KW - estimation KW - Onsager-Machlup functional KW - small ball probabilities KW - transition path theory Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ac3f82 SN - 0266-5611 SN - 1361-6420 VL - 38 IS - 2 PB - IOP Publ. Ltd. CY - Bristol ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ayanbayev, Birzhan A1 - Klebanov, Ilja A1 - Li, Han Cheng A1 - Sullivan, Tim J. T1 - Gamma-convergence of Onsager-Machlup functionals BT - I. With applications to maximum a posteriori estimation in Bayesian inverse problems JF - Inverse problems : an international journal of inverse problems, inverse methods and computerised inversion of data N2 - The Bayesian solution to a statistical inverse problem can be summarised by a mode of the posterior distribution, i.e. a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator. The MAP estimator essentially coincides with the (regularised) variational solution to the inverse problem, seen as minimisation of the Onsager-Machlup (OM) functional of the posterior measure. An open problem in the stability analysis of inverse problems is to establish a relationship between the convergence properties of solutions obtained by the variational approach and by the Bayesian approach. To address this problem, we propose a general convergence theory for modes that is based on the Gamma-convergence of OM functionals, and apply this theory to Bayesian inverse problems with Gaussian and edge-preserving Besov priors. Part II of this paper considers more general prior distributions. KW - Bayesian inverse problems KW - Gamma-convergence KW - maximum a posteriori KW - estimation KW - Onsager-Machlup functional KW - small ball probabilities; KW - transition path theory Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ac3f81 SN - 0266-5611 SN - 1361-6420 VL - 38 IS - 2 PB - IOP Publ. Ltd. CY - Bristol ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Audin, Michèle A1 - Ducourtioux, Catherine A1 - Ouédraogo, Françoise A1 - Schulz, René A1 - Delgado, Julio A1 - Ruzhansky, Michael A1 - Lebeau, Gilles ED - Paycha, Sylvie T1 - Integral Fourier operators T1 - Fourier Integraloperatoren BT - proceedings of a summer school, Ouagadougou 14–25 September 2015 BT - Akten einer Sommerschule, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 14-26. September 2015 N2 - This volume of contributions based on lectures delivered at a school on Fourier Integral Operators held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 14–26 September 2015, provides an introduction to Fourier Integral Operators (FIO) for a readership of Master and PhD students as well as any interested layperson. Considering the wide spectrum of their applications and the richness of the mathematical tools they involve, FIOs lie the cross-road of many a field. This volume offers the necessary background, whether analytic or geometric, to get acquainted with FIOs, complemented by more advanced material presenting various aspects of active research in that area. N2 - Dieser Band basiert auf Vorlesungen, die in einer Schule über Fourier Integraloperatoren in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 14. - 26. September 2015 gehalten wurden. Es bietet eine Einführung in die Fourier Integraloperatoren (FIO) und richtet sich sowohl an Masterstudierende und Promovenden als auch an interessierte Laien. Aufgrund der Breite des Spektrums ihrer Anwendungen und der Vielfalt der mathematischen Werkzeuge, die sie ins Spiel bringen, liegen FIO an der Grenze zwischen mehreren Gebieten. Dieses Band bietet sowohl die analytisch und geometrisch nötigen Kenntnisse, um sich mit dem Begriff der FIO vertraut zu machen als auch fortgeschrittenes Material für einen Einblick in verschiedene Aspekte der gegenwärtigen Forschung dieses Gebietes an. T3 - Lectures in pure and applied mathematics - 3 KW - pseudodifferentiale Operatoren KW - Fourier Integraloperatoren KW - Lagrange Distributionen KW - microlokale Analysis KW - pseudodifferential operators KW - integral Fourier operators KW - Lagrangian submanifolds KW - microlocal analysis Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-402657 SN - 978-3-86956-413-5 SN - 2199-4951 SN - 2199-496X PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ascher, Uri M. A1 - Chin, Hongsheng A1 - Reich, Sebastian T1 - Stabilization of DAEs and invariant manifolds N2 - Many methods have been proposed for the stabilization of higher index differential-algebraic equations (DAEs). Such methods often involve constraint differentiation and problem stabilization, thus obtaining a stabilized index reduction. A popular method is Baumgarte stabilization, but the choice of parameters to make it robust is unclear in practice. Here we explain why the Baumgarte method may run into trouble. We then show how to improve it. We further develop a unifying theory for stabilization methods which includes many of the various techniques proposed in the literature. Our approach is to (i) consider stabilization of ODEs with invariants, (ii) discretize the stabilizing term in a simple way, generally different from the ODE discretization, and (iii) use orthogonal projections whenever possible. The best methods thus obtained are related to methods of coordinate projection. We discuss them and make concrete algorithmic suggestions. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - paper 030 Y1 - 1994 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-15625 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ascher, Uri M. A1 - Chin, Hongsheng A1 - Petzold, Linda R. A1 - Reich, Sebastian T1 - Stabilization of constrained mechanical systems with DAEs and invariant manifolds N2 - Many methods have been proposed for the simulation of constrained mechanical systems. The most obvious of these have mild instabilities and drift problems. Consequently, stabilization techniques have been proposed A popular stabilization method is Baumgarte's technique, but the choice of parameters to make it robust has been unclear in practice. Some of the simulation methods that have been proposed and used in computations are reviewed here, from a stability point of view. This involves concepts of differential-algebraic equation (DAE) and ordinary differential equation (ODE) invariants. An explanation of the difficulties that may be encountered using Baumgarte's method is given, and a discussion of why a further quest for better parameter values for this method will always remain frustrating is presented. It is then shown how Baumgarte's method can be improved. An efficient stabilization technique is proposed, which may employ explicit ODE solvers in case of nonstiff or highly oscillatory problems and which relates to coordinate projection methods. Examples of a two-link planar robotic arm and a squeezing mechanism illustrate the effectiveness of this new stabilization method. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - paper 033 Y1 - 1994 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-15698 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Antoniouk, Alexandra Viktorivna A1 - Kiselev, Oleg A1 - Stepanenko, Vitaly A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich T1 - Asymptotic solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the heat equation at a characteristic point N2 - The Dirichlet problem for the heat equation in a bounded domain is characteristic, for there are boundary points at which the boundary touches a characteristic hyperplane t = c, c being a constant. It was I.G. Petrovskii (1934) who first found necessary and sufficient conditions on the boundary which guarantee that the solution is continuous up to the characteristic point, provided that the Dirichlet data are continuous. This paper initiated standing interest in studying general boundary value problems for parabolic equations in bounded domains. We contribute to the study by constructing a formal solution of the Dirichlet problem for the heat equation in a neighbourhood of a characteristic boundary point and showing its asymptotic character. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1(2012)25 KW - Heat equation KW - the first boundary value problem KW - characteristic boundary point KW - cusp Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-61987 ER -