We study the numerical performance of a limited memory quasi-Newton method for large scale optimization, which we call the L-BFGS method. We compare its performance with that of the method developed by Buckley and LeNir (1985), which combines cyles of BFGS steps and conjugate direction steps. Our numerical tests indicate that the L-BFGS method is faster than the method of Buckley and LeNir, and...

This article presents an analytic approach to study admissibility conditions related to classical full wavelet systems over finite fields using tools from computational harmonic analysis and theoretical linear algebra. It is shown that for a large class of non-zero window signals (wavelets), the generated classical full wavelet systems constitute a frame whose canonical dual are classical full ...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The classical model 3. Existence of equilibrium 3.1 Equilibrium and quasi-equilibrium of abstract economies 3.2 Application to quasi-equilibrium existence for private ownership economies 3.3 From quasi-equilibrium to equilibrium 4. Optimality properties of equilibrium 4.1 Optimality, core and limit-core concepts 4.2 Non-emptiness results 4.3 Price-decentralization re...

We evaluate quasi-classically the Ramond partition function of Euclidean D = 10 U(N) super-Yang{Mills theory reduced to a two-dimensional torus. The result can be interpreted in terms of free strings wrapping the space-time torus, as expected from the point of view of Matrix string theory. We demonstrate that, when extrapolated to the ultraviolet limit (small area of the torus), the quasi-class...

It is known that point searching in basic semialgebraic sets and the search for globally minimal points in polynomial optimization tasks can be carried out using (s d)O(n) arithmetic operations, where n and s are the numbers of variables and constraints and d is the maximal degree of the polynomials involved. We associate to each of these problems an intrinsic system degree which becomes in wor...