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Early structure formation from cosmic string loops
We examine the effects of cosmic strings on structure formation and on the
ionization history of the universe. While Gaussian perturbations from inflation
are known to provide the dominant contribution to the large scale structure of
the universe, density perturbations due to strings are highly non-Gaussian and
can produce nonlinear structures at very early times. This could lead to early
star formation and reionization of the universe. We improve on earlier studies
of these effects by accounting for high loop velocities and for the filamentary
shape of the resulting halos. We find that for string energy scales G\mu >
10^{-7} the effect of strings on the CMB temperature and polarization power
spectra can be significant and is likely to be detectable by the Planck
satellite. We mention shortcomings of the standard cosmological model of galaxy
formation which may be remedied with the addition of cosmic strings, and
comment on other possible observational implications of early structure
formation by strings.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figures. References adde
Minimality and mutation-equivalence of polygons
We introduce a concept of minimality for Fano polygons. We show that, up to
mutation, there are only finitely many Fano polygons with given singularity
content, and give an algorithm to determine the mutation-equivalence classes of
such polygons. This is a key step in a program to classify orbifold del Pezzo
surfaces using mirror symmetry. As an application, we classify all Fano
polygons such that the corresponding toric surface is qG-deformation-equivalent
to either (i) a smooth surface; or (ii) a surface with only singularities of
type 1/3(1,1).Comment: 29 page
Time Discrete Geodesic Paths in the Space of Images
In this paper the space of images is considered as a Riemannian manifold
using the metamorphosis approach, where the underlying Riemannian metric
simultaneously measures the cost of image transport and intensity variation. A
robust and effective variational time discretization of geodesics paths is
proposed. This requires to minimize a discrete path energy consisting of a sum
of consecutive image matching functionals over a set of image intensity maps
and pairwise matching deformations. For square-integrable input images the
existence of discrete, connecting geodesic paths defined as minimizers of this
variational problem is shown. Furthermore, -convergence of the
underlying discrete path energy to the continuous path energy is proved. This
includes a diffeomorphism property for the induced transport and the existence
of a square-integrable weak material derivative in space and time. A spatial
discretization via finite elements combined with an alternating descent scheme
in the set of image intensity maps and the set of matching deformations is
presented to approximate discrete geodesic paths numerically. Computational
results underline the efficiency of the proposed approach and demonstrate
important qualitative properties.Comment: 27 pages, 7 figure
Graph Variogram: A novel tool to measure spatial stationarity
Irregularly sampling a spatially stationary random field does not yield a
graph stationary signal in general. Based on this observation, we build a
definition of graph stationarity based on intrinsic stationarity, a less
restrictive definition of classical stationarity. We introduce the concept of
graph variogram, a novel tool for measuring spatial intrinsic stationarity at
local and global scales for irregularly sampled signals by selecting subgraphs
of local neighborhoods. Graph variograms are extensions of variograms used for
signals defined on continuous Euclidean space. Our experiments with
intrinsically stationary signals sampled on a graph, demonstrate that graph
variograms yield estimates with small bias of true theoretical models, while
being robust to sampling variation of the space.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information
Processing 2018 (IEEE GlobalSIP 2018), Nov 2018, Anaheim, CA, United States.
(https://2018.ieeeglobalsip.org/
A Posteriori Error Control for the Binary Mumford-Shah Model
The binary Mumford-Shah model is a widespread tool for image segmentation and
can be considered as a basic model in shape optimization with a broad range of
applications in computer vision, ranging from basic segmentation and labeling
to object reconstruction. This paper presents robust a posteriori error
estimates for a natural error quantity, namely the area of the non properly
segmented region. To this end, a suitable strictly convex and non-constrained
relaxation of the originally non-convex functional is investigated and Repin's
functional approach for a posteriori error estimation is used to control the
numerical error for the relaxed problem in the -norm. In combination with
a suitable cut out argument, a fully practical estimate for the area mismatch
is derived. This estimate is incorporated in an adaptive meshing strategy. Two
different adaptive primal-dual finite element schemes, and the most frequently
used finite difference discretization are investigated and compared. Numerical
experiments show qualitative and quantitative properties of the estimates and
demonstrate their usefulness in practical applications.Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures, 1 tabl
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