341 research outputs found
Fredholm Modules on P.C.F. Self-Similar Fractals and their Conformal Geometry
The aim of the present work is to show how, using the differential calculus
associated to Dirichlet forms, it is possible to construct Fredholm modules on
post critically finite fractals by regular harmonic structures. The modules are
d-summable, the summability exponent d coinciding with the spectral dimension
of the generalized laplacian operator associated with the regular harmonic
structures. The characteristic tools of the noncommutative infinitesimal
calculus allow to define a d-energy functional which is shown to be a
self-similar conformal invariant.Comment: 16 page
Extensions of Positive Definite Functions: Applications and Their Harmonic Analysis
We study two classes of extension problems, and their interconnections: (i)
Extension of positive definite (p.d.) continuous functions defined on subsets
in locally compact groups ; (ii) In case of Lie groups, representations of
the associated Lie algebras by unbounded skew-Hermitian
operators acting in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS)
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Why extensions? In science, experimentalists frequently gather spectral data
in cases when the observed data is limited, for example limited by the
precision of instruments; or on account of a variety of other limiting external
factors. Given this fact of life, it is both an art and a science to still
produce solid conclusions from restricted or limited data. In a general sense,
our monograph deals with the mathematics of extending some such given partial
data-sets obtained from experiments. More specifically, we are concerned with
the problems of extending available partial information, obtained, for example,
from sampling. In our case, the limited information is a restriction, and the
extension in turn is the full positive definite function (in a dual variable);
so an extension if available will be an everywhere defined generating function
for the exact probability distribution which reflects the data; if it were
fully available. Such extensions of local information (in the form of positive
definite functions) will in turn furnish us with spectral information. In this
form, the problem becomes an operator extension problem, referring to operators
in a suitable reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS). In our presentation we
have stressed hands-on-examples. Extensions are almost never unique, and so we
deal with both the question of existence, and if there are extensions, how they
relate back to the initial completion problem.Comment: 235 pages, 42 figures, 7 tables. arXiv admin note: substantial text
overlap with arXiv:1401.478
Periodic Splines and Gaussian Processes for the Resolution of Linear Inverse Problems
This paper deals with the resolution of inverse problems in a periodic
setting or, in other terms, the reconstruction of periodic continuous-domain
signals from their noisy measurements. We focus on two reconstruction
paradigms: variational and statistical. In the variational approach, the
reconstructed signal is solution to an optimization problem that establishes a
tradeoff between fidelity to the data and smoothness conditions via a quadratic
regularization associated to a linear operator. In the statistical approach,
the signal is modeled as a stationary random process defined from a Gaussian
white noise and a whitening operator; one then looks for the optimal estimator
in the mean-square sense. We give a generic form of the reconstructed signals
for both approaches, allowing for a rigorous comparison of the two.We fully
characterize the conditions under which the two formulations yield the same
solution, which is a periodic spline in the case of sampling measurements. We
also show that this equivalence between the two approaches remains valid on
simulations for a broad class of problems. This extends the practical range of
applicability of the variational method
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