Diffusion processes capture information about the geometry of an object such as its curvature, symmetries and particular points. The evolution of the diffusion is governed by the Laplace-Beltrami operator which presides to the diffusion on the manifold. In this paper, we define a new discrete adaptive Laplacian for digital objects, generalizing the operator defined on meshes. We study its eigen...

We consider the Laplace operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions on a planar domain and study the effect that performing a scaling in one direction has on the spectrum. We derive the asymptotic expansion for the eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions as a function of the scaling parameter around zero. This method allows us, for instance, to obtain an approximation for the first Dirichl...

A novel implementation of the Laplace transform method for the calculation of the density of states of molecules, for which the partition function can be explicitly given is described. It consists of doing the inverse Laplace transform numerically after multiplying the integrand by a smoothing factor. This evaluation is more accurate than the method of steepest descent, and the computation can ...

The presence of small inclusions modifies the solution of the Laplace equation posed in a reference domain Ω0. This question has been deeply studied for a single inclusion or well separated inclusions. We investigate in this note the case where the distance between the holes tends to zero but remains large with respect to their characteristic size. We first consider two perfectly insulated incl...

We present a novel surface smoothing framework using the Laplace-Beltrami eigenfunctions. The Green’s function of an isotropic diffusion equation on a manifold is analytically represented using the eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltraimi operator. The Green’s function is then used in explicitly constructing heat kernel smoothing as a series expansion of the eigenfunctions. Unlike many previous ...

The topological sensitivity analysis consists to study the variation of a shape functional with respect to emerging of small holes in the interior of the domain occupied by the body. In this paper, we consider the case of a hole located at the boundary of the domain. The topological asymptotic expansion is derived for the Laplace equation in three cases: Dirichlet condition, Neumann condition a...

The singular function boundary integral method is applied for the solution of a Laplace equation problem over an L-shaped domain. The solution is approximated by the leading terms of the local asymptotic solution expansion, while the Dirichlet boundary conditions are weakly enforced by means of Lagrange multipliers. Estimates of great accuracy are obtained for the leading singular coe:cients, a...

The detrended Brownian motion is defined as the orthogonal component of projection of the standard Brownian motion into the subspace spanned by linear functions. Karhunen–Loeve expansion for the process is obtained, together with the explicit formula for the Laplace transform of the squared L 2 norm. Distribution identities are established in connection with the second order Brownian bridge dev...

This paper introduces, investigates, and discusses the γ-order generalized lognormal distribution (γ-GLD). Under certain values of the extra shape parameter γ, the usual lognormal, log-Laplace, and log-uniform distribution, are obtained, as well as the degenerate Dirac distribution.The shape of all themembers of the γ-GLD family is extensively discussed.The cumulative distribution function is e...

The inductance L of the laser discharge shows an abrupt high peak which is attributed to the temporary plasma constriction [4]. This is due to the attractive electromagnetic forces (Laplace force) because of the parallel motion of the electrons. The following expansion of the plasma is caused by the finite time required for the electric field to penetrate into the plasma. This is due to the wel...