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Isobaric Reconstruction of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation
In this paper, we report a significant recovery of the linear baryonic
acoustic oscillation (BAO) signature by applying the isobaric reconstruction
algorithm to the non-linear matter density field. Assuming only the
longitudinal component of the displacement being cosmologically relevant, this
algorithm iteratively solves the coordinate transform between the Lagrangian
and Eulerian frames without requiring any specific knowledge of the dynamics.
For dark matter field, it produces the non-linear displacement potential with
very high fidelity. The reconstruction error at the pixel level is within a few
percent, and is caused only by the emergence of the transverse component after
the shell-crossing. As it circumvents the strongest non-linearity of the
density evolution, the reconstructed field is well-described by linear theory
and immune from the bulk-flow smearing of the BAO signature. Therefore this
algorithm could significantly improve the measurement accuracy of the sound
horizon scale. For a perfect large-scale structure survey at redshift zero
without Poisson or instrumental noise, the fractional error is reduced by a
factor of 2.7, very close to the ideal limit with linear power spectrum and
Gaussian covariance matrix.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted versio
Approximate Closest Community Search in Networks
Recently, there has been significant interest in the study of the community
search problem in social and information networks: given one or more query
nodes, find densely connected communities containing the query nodes. However,
most existing studies do not address the "free rider" issue, that is, nodes far
away from query nodes and irrelevant to them are included in the detected
community. Some state-of-the-art models have attempted to address this issue,
but not only are their formulated problems NP-hard, they do not admit any
approximations without restrictive assumptions, which may not always hold in
practice.
In this paper, given an undirected graph G and a set of query nodes Q, we
study community search using the k-truss based community model. We formulate
our problem of finding a closest truss community (CTC), as finding a connected
k-truss subgraph with the largest k that contains Q, and has the minimum
diameter among such subgraphs. We prove this problem is NP-hard. Furthermore,
it is NP-hard to approximate the problem within a factor , for
any . However, we develop a greedy algorithmic framework,
which first finds a CTC containing Q, and then iteratively removes the furthest
nodes from Q, from the graph. The method achieves 2-approximation to the
optimal solution. To further improve the efficiency, we make use of a compact
truss index and develop efficient algorithms for k-truss identification and
maintenance as nodes get eliminated. In addition, using bulk deletion
optimization and local exploration strategies, we propose two more efficient
algorithms. One of them trades some approximation quality for efficiency while
the other is a very efficient heuristic. Extensive experiments on 6 real-world
networks show the effectiveness and efficiency of our community model and
search algorithms
Exact penalty method for D-stationary point of nonlinear optimization
We consider the nonlinear optimization problem with least -norm
measure of constraint violations and introduce the concepts of the D-stationary
point, the DL-stationary point and the DZ-stationary point with the help of
exact penalty function. If the stationary point is feasible, they correspond to
the Fritz-John stationary point, the KKT stationary point and the singular
stationary point, respectively. In order to show the usefulness of the new
stationary points, we propose a new exact penalty sequential quadratic
programming (SQP) method with inner and outer iterations and analyze its global
and local convergence. The proposed method admits convergence to a D-stationary
point and rapid infeasibility detection without driving the penalty parameter
to zero, which demonstrates the commentary given in [SIAM J. Optim., 20 (2010),
2281--2299] and can be thought to be a supplement of the theory of nonlinear
optimization on rapid detection of infeasibility. Some illustrative examples
and preliminary numerical results demonstrate that the proposed method is
robust and efficient in solving infeasible nonlinear problems and a degenerate
problem without LICQ in the literature.Comment: 24 page
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