Numerical Analysis Seminar

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Date, time & place Tuesday 16:30 - 18:00 002Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Organizer(s) Norikazu Saito, Takahito Kashiwabara

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2025/12/09

16:30-18:00   Room #122 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Dorin Bucur (Université Savoie Mont Blanc)
On polygonal nonlocal isoperimetric inequalities: Hardy-Littlewood, Riesz, Faber-Krahn (English)
[ Abstract ]
The starting point is the Faber-Krahn inequality on the first eigenvalue of the Dirichlet Laplacian. Many refinements were obtained in the last years, mainly due to the use of recent techniques based on the analysis of vectorial free boundary problems. It turns out that the polygonal version of this inequality, very easy to state, is extremely hard to prove and remains open since 1947, when it was conjectured by Polya. I will connect this question to somehow easier problems, like polygonal versions of Hardy-Littlewood and Riesz inequalities and I will discuss the local minimality of regular polygons and the possibility to prove the conjecture by a mixed approach. This talk is based on joint works with Beniamin Bogosel and Ilaria Fragala.
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2025/12/16

16:30-18:00   Room #002 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Laurent Mertz (City University of Hong Kong)
A Control Variate Method Driven by Diffusion Approximation (English)
[ Abstract ]
We present a control variate estimator for a quantity that can be expressed as the expectation of a functional of a random process, that is itself the solution of a differential equation driven by fast mean-reverting ergodic forces. The control variate is the expectation of the same functional for the limit diffusion process that approximates the original process when the mean-reversion time goes to zero. To get an efficient control variate estimator, we propose a coupling method to build the original process and the limit diffusion process. We show that the correlation between the two processes indeed goes to one when the mean reversion time goes to zero and we quantify the convergence rate, which makes it possible to characterize the variance reduction of the proposed control variate method. The efficiency of the method is illustrated on a few examples. This is joint work with Josselin Garnier (École Polytechnique, France). Link to the paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpa.21976
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