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Dirichlet Duality and the Nonlinear Dirichlet Problem
We study the Dirichlet problem for fully nonlinear, degenerate elliptic
equations of the form f(Hess, u)=0 on a smoothly bounded domain D in R^n. In
our approach the equation is replaced by a subset F of the space of symmetric
nxn-matrices, with bdy(F) contined in the set {f=0}. We establish the existence
and uniqueness of continuous solutions under an explicit geometric
``F-convexity'' assumption on the boundary bdy(F). The topological structure of
F-convex domains is also studied and a theorem of Andreotti-Frankel type is
proved for them. Two key ingredients in the analysis are the use of subaffine
functions and Dirichlet duality, both introduced here. Associated to F is a
Dirichlet dual set F* which gives a dual Dirichlet problem. This pairing is a
true duality in that the dual of F* is F and in the analysis the roles of F and
F* are interchangeable. The duality also clarifies many features of the problem
including the appropriate conditions on the boundary. Many interesting examples
are covered by these results including: All branches of the homogeneous
Monge-Ampere equation over R, C and H; equations appearing naturally in
calibrated geometry, Lagrangian geometry and p-convex riemannian geometry, and
all branches of the Special Lagrangian potential equation
Self-scaled barrier functions on symmetric cones and their classification
Self-scaled barrier functions on self-scaled cones were introduced through a
set of axioms in 1994 by Y.E. Nesterov and M.J. Todd as a tool for the
construction of long-step interior point algorithms. This paper provides firm
foundation for these objects by exhibiting their symmetry properties, their
intimate ties with the symmetry groups of their domains of definition, and
subsequently their decomposition into irreducible parts and algebraic
classification theory. In a first part we recall the characterisation of the
family of self-scaled cones as the set of symmetric cones and develop a
primal-dual symmetric viewpoint on self-scaled barriers, results that were
first discovered by the second author. We then show in a short, simple proof
that any pointed, convex cone decomposes into a direct sum of irreducible
components in a unique way, a result which can also be of independent interest.
We then show that any self-scaled barrier function decomposes in an essentially
unique way into a direct sum of self-scaled barriers defined on the irreducible
components of the underlying symmetric cone. Finally, we present a complete
algebraic classification of self-scaled barrier functions using the
correspondence between symmetric cones and Euclidean Jordan algebras.Comment: 17 page
Top-k Multiclass SVM
Class ambiguity is typical in image classification problems with a large
number of classes. When classes are difficult to discriminate, it makes sense
to allow k guesses and evaluate classifiers based on the top-k error instead of
the standard zero-one loss. We propose top-k multiclass SVM as a direct method
to optimize for top-k performance. Our generalization of the well-known
multiclass SVM is based on a tight convex upper bound of the top-k error. We
propose a fast optimization scheme based on an efficient projection onto the
top-k simplex, which is of its own interest. Experiments on five datasets show
consistent improvements in top-k accuracy compared to various baselines.Comment: NIPS 201
On the renormalized volume of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
The renormalized volume of hyperbolic manifolds is a quantity motivated by
the AdS/CFT correspondence of string theory and computed via a certain
regularization procedure. The main aim of the present paper is to elucidate its
geometrical meaning. We use another regularization procedure based on surfaces
equidistant to a given convex surface \partial N. The renormalized volume
computed via this procedure is equal to what we call the W-volume of the convex
region N given by the usual volume of N minus the quarter of the integral of
the mean curvature over \partial N. The W-volume satisfies some remarkable
properties. First, this quantity is self-dual in the sense explained in the
paper. Second, it verifies some simple variational formulas analogous to the
classical geometrical Schlafli identities. These variational formulas are
invariant under a certain transformation that replaces the data at \partial N
by those at infinity of M. We use the variational formulas in terms of the data
at infinity to give a simple geometrical proof of results of Takhtajan et al on
the Kahler potential on various moduli spaces.Comment: 23 pages, no figures (v2): proofs simplified, references added (v3):
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