Many efficient interior-point methods (IPMs) are based on the use of a self-concordant barrier function for the domain of the problem that has to be solved. Recently, a wide class of new barrier functions has been introduced in which the functions are not self-concordant, but despite this fact give rise to efficient IPMs. Here, we introduce the notion of locally self-concordant barrier functio...

A new method for constructing efficient basis functions for f variational calculations of quantum mechanical rearrangements is presented and tested. With this method, using the same contracted basis functions for all channels in a given vibrational manifold, we can obtain reactive transition probabilities for F + H, H + HF(u’), where v’is the final vibrational state, that are accurate to 0.01 a...

We review characterizations of (conditional) positive definiteness and show how they apply to the theory of radial basis functions. We then give complete proofs for the (conditional) positive definiteness of all practically relevant basis functions. Furthermore, we show how some of these characterizations may lead to construction tools for positive definite functions. Finally, we give new const...

Recently, the block-pulse functions (BPFs) are used in solving electromagnetic scattering problem, which are modeled as linear Fredholm integral equations (FIEs) of the second kind. But the theoretical aspect of this method has not fully investigated yet. In this article, in addition to presenting a new approach for solving FIE of the second kind, the theory of both methods is investigated as a...

We solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for molecular dynamics using a pseudospectral method with global, exponentially decaying, Hagedorn basis functions. The approximation properties of the Hagedorn basis depend strongly on the scaling of the spatial coordinates. Using results from control theory we develop a time-dependent scaling which adaptively matches the basis to the wave packe...

this article is devoted to study of the autoconvolution equations and generalized mittag-leffler functions. these types of equations are given in terms of the laplace transform convolution of a function with itself. we state new classes of the autoconvolution equations of the first kind and show that the generalized mittag-leffler functions are solutions of these types of equations. in view of ...

Several radial basis function based methods contain a free shape parameter which has  a crucial role in the accuracy of the methods. Performance evaluation of this parameter in different  functions with various data has always been a topic of study. In the present paper, we consider studying the methods which determine an optimal value for the shape parameter in interpolations of radial basis  ...

PHT-splines (polynomials splines over hierarchical T-meshes) are a generalization of B-splines over hierarchical T-mesheswhich possess a very efficient local refinement property. This property makes PHT-splines preferable in geometric processing, adaptive finite elements and isogeometric analysis. In this paper, we first make analysis of the previously constructed basis functions of PHT-splines...

In this paper, we present a numerical method to solve the nonlinear Volterra-Fredholm integral equations by new basis functions (NFs). This is demonstrated by using a complementary pair of new orthogonal basis functions set (NFs) derived from the well-known block pulse functions set. Finally, we give some numerical examples, and the efficiency of this method will be shown by comparison with som...