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Homological perturbation theory for nonperturbative integrals
We use the homological perturbation lemma to produce explicit formulas
computing the class in the twisted de Rham complex represented by an arbitrary
polynomial. This is a non-asymptotic version of the method of Feynman diagrams.
In particular, we explain that phenomena usually thought of as particular to
asymptotic integrals in fact also occur exactly: integrals of the type
appearing in quantum field theory can be reduced in a totally algebraic fashion
to integrals over an Euler--Lagrange locus, provided this locus is understood
in the scheme-theoretic sense, so that imaginary critical points and
multiplicities of degenerate critical points contribute.Comment: 22 pages. Minor revisions from previous versio
Asymptotics of multivariate sequences, part III: quadratic points
We consider a number of combinatorial problems in which rational generating
functions may be obtained, whose denominators have factors with certain
singularities. Specifically, there exist points near which one of the factors
is asymptotic to a nondegenerate quadratic. We compute the asymptotics of the
coefficients of such a generating function. The computation requires some
topological deformations as well as Fourier-Laplace transforms of generalized
functions. We apply the results of the theory to specific combinatorial
problems, such as Aztec diamond tilings, cube groves, and multi-set
permutations.Comment: substantial correction
Computing equilibria in general equilibrium models via interior-point method
In this paper we study new computational methods to find equilibria in general equilibrium
models. We first survey the algorithms to compute equilibria that can be found in the literature on
computational economics and we indicate how these algorithms can be improved from the computational
point of view. We also provide alternative algorithms that are able to compute the equilibria
in an efficient manner even for large-scale models, based on interior-point methods. We illustrate the
proposed methods with some examples taken from the literature on general equilibrium modelsPublicad
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