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Non-equispaced B-spline wavelets
This paper has three main contributions. The first is the construction of
wavelet transforms from B-spline scaling functions defined on a grid of
non-equispaced knots. The new construction extends the equispaced,
biorthogonal, compactly supported Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau wavelets. The new
construction is based on the factorisation of wavelet transforms into lifting
steps. The second and third contributions are new insights on how to use these
and other wavelets in statistical applications. The second contribution is
related to the bias of a wavelet representation. It is investigated how the
fine scaling coefficients should be derived from the observations. In the
context of equispaced data, it is common practice to simply take the
observations as fine scale coefficients. It is argued in this paper that this
is not acceptable for non-interpolating wavelets on non-equidistant data.
Finally, the third contribution is the study of the variance in a
non-orthogonal wavelet transform in a new framework, replacing the numerical
condition as a measure for non-orthogonality. By controlling the variances of
the reconstruction from the wavelet coefficients, the new framework allows us
to design wavelet transforms on irregular point sets with a focus on their use
for smoothing or other applications in statistics.Comment: 42 pages, 2 figure
Level Set Methods for Stochastic Discontinuity Detection in Nonlinear Problems
Stochastic physical problems governed by nonlinear conservation laws are
challenging due to solution discontinuities in stochastic and physical space.
In this paper, we present a level set method to track discontinuities in
stochastic space by solving a Hamilton-Jacobi equation. By introducing a speed
function that vanishes at discontinuities, the iso-zero of the level set
problem coincide with the discontinuities of the conservation law. The level
set problem is solved on a sequence of successively finer grids in stochastic
space. The method is adaptive in the sense that costly evaluations of the
conservation law of interest are only performed in the vicinity of the
discontinuities during the refinement stage. In regions of stochastic space
where the solution is smooth, a surrogate method replaces expensive evaluations
of the conservation law. The proposed method is tested in conjunction with
different sets of localized orthogonal basis functions on simplex elements, as
well as frames based on piecewise polynomials conforming to the level set
function. The performance of the proposed method is compared to existing
adaptive multi-element generalized polynomial chaos methods
Asymptotics for Hermite-Pade rational approximants for two analytic functions with separated pairs of branch points (case of genus 0)
We investigate the asymptotic behavior for type II Hermite-Pade approximation
to two functions, where each function has two branch points and the pairs of
branch points are separated. We give a classification of the cases such that
the limiting counting measures for the poles of the Hermite-Pade approximants
are described by an algebraic function of order 3 and genus 0. This situation
gives rise to a vector-potential equilibrium problem for three measures and the
poles of the common denominator are asymptotically distributed like one of
these measures. We also work out the strong asymptotics for the corresponding
Hermite-Pade approximants by using a 3x3 Riemann-Hilbert problem that
characterizes this Hermite-Pade approximation problem.Comment: 102 pages, 31 figure
On the Equivalence Between a Minimal Codomain Cardinality Riesz Basis Construction, a System of Hadamard–Sylvester Operators, and a Class of Sparse, Binary Optimization Problems
Piecewise, low-order polynomial, Riesz basis families are constructed such that they share the same coefficient functionals of smoother, orthonormal bases in a localized indexing subset. It is shown that a minimal cardinality basis codomain can be realized by inducing sparsity, via l1 regularization, in the distributional derivatives of the basis functions and that the optimal construction can be found numerically by constrained binary optimization over a suitably large dictionary. Furthermore, it is shown that a subset of these solutions are equivalent to a specific, constrained analytical solution, derived via Sylvester-type Hadamard operators
Interior numerical approximation of boundary value problems with a distributional data
We study the approximation properties of a harmonic function u \in
H\sp{1-k}(\Omega), , on relatively compact sub-domain of ,
using the Generalized Finite Element Method. For smooth, bounded domains
, we obtain that the GFEM--approximation satisfies \|u -
u_S\|_{H\sp{1}(A)} \le C h^{\gamma}\|u\|_{H\sp{1-k}(\Omega)}, where is the
typical size of the ``elements'' defining the GFEM--space and is such that the local approximation spaces contain all polynomials of degree
. The main technical result is an extension of the classical
super-approximation results of Nitsche and Schatz \cite{NitscheSchatz72} and,
especially, \cite{NitscheSchatz74}. It turns out that, in addition to the usual
``energy'' Sobolev spaces , one must use also the negative order Sobolev
spaces H\sp{-l}, , which are defined by duality and contain the
distributional boundary data.Comment: 23 page
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