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An explicit Euler method for Sobolev vector fields with applications to the continuity equation on non cartesian grids
Get PDFWe prove a novel stability estimate in between the regular Lagrangian flow of a Sobolev vector field and a piecewise affine approximation of such flow. This approximation of the flow is obtained by a (sort of) explicit Euler method, and it is the crucial tool to prove approximation results for the solution of the continuity equation by using the representation of the solution as the push-forward via the regular Lagrangian flow of the initial datum. We approximate the solution in two ways, using different approximations for both the flow and the initial datum. In the first case we give an estimate, which however holds only in probability, of the Wasserstein distance between the solution of the continuity equation and a discrete approximation of such solution. The approximate solution is defined as the push-forward of weighted Dirac deltas (whose centers are chosen in a probabilistic way). In the second case we give a deterministic estimate of the Wasserstein distance using a slightly different approximation of the regular Lagrangian flow and requiring more regularity on the velocity field than in the previous case. An advantage of both approximations is that they provide an algorithm which is easily parallelizable and does not rely on any particular structure of the mesh with which we discretize (only in space) the domain
Existence, uniqueness and
Get PDFWe consider the gradient flow of the Ambrosio–Tortorelli functional, proving existence, uniqueness and L2t(H2x) ∩ L∞t(H1x) ∩ H1t(L2x) regularity of the solution in dimension 2. Such functional is an approximation in the sense of Γ-convergence of the Mumford–Shah functional often used in problems of image segmentation and fracture mechanics. The strategy of the proof essentially follows the one of []Feng and Prohl, M2AN Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 38 (2004) 291–320] but the crucial estimate is attained employing a different technique, and in the end it allows to prove better estimates than the ones obtained in [Feng and Prohl, M2AN Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 38 (2004) 291–320]. In particular we prove that if U ⊂ ℝ2 is a bounded C2 domain, the initial data (u0, z0) ∈ [H1(U)]2 with 0 ≤ z0 ≤ 1, then for every T > 0 there exists a unique gradient flow (u(t), z(t)) of the Ambrosio–Tortorelli functional such that (u, z) ∈ [L2(0, T; H2(U)) ∩ L∞(0,T;H1(U)) ∩H1(0,T;L2(U)]2 while previously such regularity was known only for short times
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
A generalised Nehari manifold method for a class of non linear Schrodinger systems in R3
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to study a generalisation of the Nehari manifold method applied to a class of non linear Schrodinger systems. In particular, we consider stationary solutions so that the problem becomes elliptic. We study how, definining the generalised Nehari manifold appropriately, we are able to prove the existence of a positive solution with "spikes" near strict local minima points of the potential and whose energy is concentrated near these minima, and this energy can be estimated in terms of the ground state energy of particular systems with constant potential
An explicit Euler method for the continuity equation with Sobolev velocity fields
Get PDFWe prove a stability estimate, in a suitable expected value, of the
-Wasserstein distance between the solution of the continuity equation under
a Sobolev velocity field and a measure obtained by pushing forward Dirac deltas
whose centers belong to a partition of the domain by a (sort of) explicit
forward Euler method. The main tool is a estimate on the
difference between the regular Lagrangian flow of the velocity field and an
explicitly constructed approximation of such flow. Although our result only
gives estimates in expected value, it has the advantage of being easily
parallelizable and of not relying on any particular structure on the mesh. At
the end, we also provide estimates with a logarithmic Wasserstein distance,
already used in other works on this particular problem.Comment: 27 pages. The note on arXiv:2310.03871 has been included to keep the
work self-containe
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