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Analysis of Energy-Based Blended Quasicontinuum Approximations
The development of patch test consistent quasicontinuum energies for
multi-dimensional crystalline solids modeled by many-body potentials remains a
challenge. The original quasicontinuum energy (QCE) has been implemented for
many-body potentials in two and three space dimensions, but it is not patch
test consistent. We propose that by blending the atomistic and corresponding
Cauchy-Born continuum models of QCE in an interfacial region with thickness of
a small number of blended atoms, a general quasicontinuum energy (BQCE) can
be developed with the potential to significantly improve the accuracy of QCE
near lattice instabilities such as dislocation formation and motion. In this
paper, we give an error analysis of the blended quasicontinuum energy (BQCE)
for a periodic one-dimensional chain of atoms with next-nearest neighbor
interactions. Our analysis includes the optimization of the blending function
for an improved convergence rate. We show that the strain error for
the non-blended QCE energy (QCE), which has low order
where is the atomistic length scale, can
be reduced by a factor of for an optimized blending function where
is the number of atoms in the blending region. The QCE energy has been
further shown to suffer from a O error in the critical strain at which the
lattice loses stability. We prove that the error in the critical strain of BQCE
can be reduced by a factor of for an optimized blending function, thus
demonstrating that the BQCE energy for an optimized blending function has the
potential to give an accurate approximation of the deformation near lattice
instabilities such as crack growth.Comment: 26 pages, 1 figur
Optimal Calibration for Multiple Testing against Local Inhomogeneity in Higher Dimension
Based on two independent samples X_1,...,X_m and X_{m+1},...,X_n drawn from
multivariate distributions with unknown Lebesgue densities p and q
respectively, we propose an exact multiple test in order to identify
simultaneously regions of significant deviations between p and q. The
construction is built from randomized nearest-neighbor statistics. It does not
require any preliminary information about the multivariate densities such as
compact support, strict positivity or smoothness and shape properties. The
properly adjusted multiple testing procedure is shown to be sharp-optimal for
typical arrangements of the observation values which appear with probability
close to one. The proof relies on a new coupling Bernstein type exponential
inequality, reflecting the non-subgaussian tail behavior of a combinatorial
process. For power investigation of the proposed method a reparametrized
minimax set-up is introduced, reducing the composite hypothesis "p=q" to a
simple one with the multivariate mixed density (m/n)p+(1-m/n)q as infinite
dimensional nuisance parameter. Within this framework, the test is shown to be
spatially and sharply asymptotically adaptive with respect to uniform loss on
isotropic H\"older classes. The exact minimax risk asymptotics are obtained in
terms of solutions of the optimal recovery
Improving Sparse Representation-Based Classification Using Local Principal Component Analysis
Sparse representation-based classification (SRC), proposed by Wright et al.,
seeks the sparsest decomposition of a test sample over the dictionary of
training samples, with classification to the most-contributing class. Because
it assumes test samples can be written as linear combinations of their
same-class training samples, the success of SRC depends on the size and
representativeness of the training set. Our proposed classification algorithm
enlarges the training set by using local principal component analysis to
approximate the basis vectors of the tangent hyperplane of the class manifold
at each training sample. The dictionary in SRC is replaced by a local
dictionary that adapts to the test sample and includes training samples and
their corresponding tangent basis vectors. We use a synthetic data set and
three face databases to demonstrate that this method can achieve higher
classification accuracy than SRC in cases of sparse sampling, nonlinear class
manifolds, and stringent dimension reduction.Comment: Published in "Computational Intelligence for Pattern Recognition,"
editors Shyi-Ming Chen and Witold Pedrycz. The original publication is
available at http://www.springerlink.co
Analysis of the quasi-nonlocal approximation of linear and circular chains in the plane
We give an analysis of the stability and displacement error for linear and
circular atomistic chains in the plane when the atomistic energy is
approximated by the Cauchy-Born continuum energy and by the quasi-nonlocal
atomistic-to-continuum coupling energy. We consider atomistic energies that
include Lennard-Jones type nearest neighbor and next nearest neighbor
pair-potential interactions. Previous analyses for linear chains have shown
that the Cauchy-Born and quasi-nonlocal approximations reproduce (up to the
order of the lattice spacing) the atomistic lattice stability for perturbations
that are constrained to the line of the chain. However, we show that the
Cauchy-Born and quasi-nonlocal approximations give a finite increase for the
lattice stability of a linear or circular chain under compression when general
perturbations in the plane are allowed. We also analyze the increase of the
lattice stability under compression when pair-potential energies are augmented
by bond-angle energies. Our estimates of the largest strain for lattice
stability (the critical strain) are sharp (exact up to the order of the lattice
scale). We then use these stability estimates and modeling error estimates for
the linearized Cauchy-Born and quasi-nonlocal energies to give an optimal order
(in the lattice scale) {\em a priori} error analysis for the approximation of
the atomistic strain in due to an external force.Comment: 27 pages, 0 figure
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