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- Mathematik (62) (entfernen)
The subject of this thesis is a homological approach to the splitting theory of PLS-spaces, i.e. to the question for which topologically exact short sequences 0->X->Y->Z->0 of PLS-spaces X,Y,Z the right-hand map admits a right inverse. We show that the category (PLS) of PLS-spaces and continuous linear maps is an additive category in which every morphism admits a kernel and a cokernel, i.e. it is pre-abelian. However, we also show that it is neither quasi-abelian nor semi-abelian. As a foundation for our homological constructions we show the more general result that every pre-abelian category admits a largest exact structure in the sense of Quillen. In the pre-abelian category (PLS) this exact structure consists precisely of the topologically exact short sequences of PLS-spaces. Using a construction of Ext-functors due to Yoneda, we show that one can define for each PLS-space A and every natural number k the k-th abelian-group valued covariant and contravariant Ext-functors acting on the category (PLS) of PLS-spaces, which induce for every topologically exact short sequence of PLS-spaces a long exact sequence of abelian groups and group morphisms. These functors are studied in detail and we establish a connection between the Ext-functors of PLS-spaces and the Ext-functors for LS-spaces. Through this connection we arrive at an analogue of a result for Fréchet spaces which connects the first derived functor of the projective limit with the first Ext-functor and also gives sufficient conditions for the vanishing of the higher Ext-functors. Finally, we show that Ext^k(E,F) = 0 for a k greater or equal than 1, whenever E is a closed subspace and F is a Hausdorff-quotient of the space of distributions, which generalizes a result of Wengenroth that is itself a generalization of results due to Domanski and Vogt.
The goal of this thesis is to transfer the logarithmic barrier approach, which led to very efficient interior-point methods for convex optimization problems in recent years, to convex semi-infinite programming problems. Based on a reformulation of the constraints into a nondifferentiable form this can be directly done for convex semi- infinite programming problems with nonempty compact sets of optimal solutions. But, by means of an involved max-term this reformulation leads to nondifferentiable barrier problems which can be solved with an extension of a bundle method of Kiwiel. This extension allows to deal with inexact objective values and subgradient information which occur due to the inexact evaluation of the maxima. Nevertheless we are able to prove similar convergence results as for the logarithmic barrier approach in the finite optimization. In the further course of the thesis the logarithmic barrier approach is coupled with the proximal point regularization technique in order to solve ill-posed convex semi-infinite programming problems too. Moreover this coupled algorithm generates sequences converging to an optimal solution of the given semi-infinite problem whereas the pure logarithmic barrier only produces sequences whose accumulation points are such optimal solutions. If there are certain additional conditions fulfilled we are further able to prove convergence rate results up to linear convergence of the iterates. Finally, besides hints for the implementation of the methods we present numerous numerical results for model examples as well as applications in finance and digital filter design.
A matrix A is called completely positive if there exists an entrywise nonnegative matrix B such that A = BB^T. These matrices can be used to obtain convex reformulations of for example nonconvex quadratic or combinatorial problems. One of the main problems with completely positive matrices is checking whether a given matrix is completely positive. This is known to be NP-hard in general. rnrnFor a given matrix completely positive matrix A, it is nontrivial to find a cp-factorization A=BB^T with nonnegative B since this factorization would provide a certificate for the matrix to be completely positive. But this factorization is not only important for the membership to the completely positive cone, it can also be used to recover the solution of the underlying quadratic or combinatorial problem. In addition, it is not a priori known how many columns are necessary to generate a cp-factorization for the given matrix. The minimal possible number of columns is called the cp-rank of A and so far it is still an open question how to derive the cp-rank for a given matrix. Some facts on completely positive matrices and the cp-rank will be given in Chapter 2. Moreover, in Chapter 6, we will see a factorization algorithm, which, for a given completely positive matrix A and a suitable starting point, computes the nonnegative factorization A=BB^T. The algorithm therefore returns a certificate for the matrix to be completely positive. As introduced in Chapter 3, the fundamental idea of the factorization algorithm is to start from an initial square factorization which is not necessarily entrywise nonnegative, and extend this factorization to a matrix for which the number of columns is greater than or equal to the cp-rank of A. Then it is the goal to transform this generated factorization into a cp-factorization. This problem can be formulated as a nonconvex feasibility problem, as shown in Section 4.1, and solved by a method which is based on alternating projections, as proven in Chapter 6. On the topic of alternating projections, a survey will be given in Chapter 5. Here we will see how to apply this technique to several types of sets like subspaces, convex sets, manifolds and semialgebraic sets. Furthermore, we will see some known facts on the convergence rate for alternating projections between these types of sets. Considering more than two sets yields the so called cyclic projections approach. Here some known facts for subspaces and convex sets will be shown. Moreover, we will see a new convergence result on cyclic projections among a sequence of manifolds in Section 5.4. In the context of cp-factorizations, a local convergence result for the introduced algorithm will be given. This result is based on the known convergence for alternating projections between semialgebraic sets. To obtain cp-facrorizations with this first method, it is necessary to solve a second order cone problem in every projection step, which is very costly. Therefore, in Section 6.2, we will see an additional heuristic extension, which improves the numerical performance of the algorithm. Extensive numerical tests in Chapter 7 will show that the factorization method is very fast in most instances. In addition, we will see how to derive a certificate for the matrix to be an element of the interior of the completely positive cone. As a further application, this method can be extended to find a symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization, where we consider an additional low-rank constraint. Here again, the method to derive factorizations for completely positive matrices can be used, albeit with some further adjustments, introduced in Section 8.1. Moreover, we will see that even for the general case of deriving a nonnegative matrix factorization for a given rectangular matrix A, the key aspects of the completely positive factorization approach can be used. To this end, it becomes necessary to extend the idea of finding a completely positive factorization such that it can be used for rectangular matrices. This yields an applicable algorithm for nonnegative matrix factorization in Section 8.2. Numerical results for this approach will suggest that the presented algorithms and techniques to obtain completely positive matrix factorizations can be extended to general nonnegative factorization problems.
Bei der Preisberechnung von Finanzderivaten bieten sogenannte Jump-diffusion-Modelle mit lokaler Volatilität viele Vorteile. Aus mathematischer Sicht jedoch sind sie sehr aufwendig, da die zugehörigen Modellpreise mittels einer partiellen Integro-Differentialgleichung (PIDG) berechnet werden. Wir beschäftigen uns mit der Kalibrierung der Parameter eines solchen Modells. In einem kleinste-Quadrate-Ansatz werden hierzu Marktpreise von europäischen Standardoptionen mit den Modellpreisen verglichen, was zu einem Problem optimaler Steuerung führt. Ein wesentlicher Teil dieser Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Lösung der PIDG aus theoretischer und vor allem aus numerischer Sicht. Die durch ein implizites Zeitdiskretisierungsverfahren entstandenen, dicht besetzten Gleichungssysteme werden mit einem präkonditionierten GMRES-Verfahren gelöst, was zu beinahe linearem Aufwand bezüglich Orts- und Zeitdiskretisierung führt. Trotz dieser effizienten Lösungsmethode sind Funktionsauswertungen der kleinste-Quadrate-Zielfunktion immer noch teuer, so dass im Hauptteil der Arbeit Modelle reduzierter Ordnung basierend auf Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Anwendung finden. Lokale a priori Fehlerabschätzungen für die reduzierte Differentialgleichung sowie für die reduzierte Zielfunktion, kombiniert mit einem Trust-Region-Ansatz zur Globalisierung liefern einen effizienten Algorithmus, der die Rechenzeit deutlich verkürzt. Das Hauptresultat der Arbeit ist ein Konvergenzbeweis für diesen Algorithmus für eine weite Klasse von Optimierungsproblemen, in die auch das betrachtete Kalibrierungsproblem fällt.
Zu den klassischen Verteilungen der mathematischen Statistik zählen die zentralen F- und t-Verteilungen. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Verallgemeinerungen dieser Verteilungen, die sogenannten doppelt nichtzentralen F- und t-Verteilungen, welche in der statistischen Testtheorie von Bedeutung sind. Die Tatsache, dass die zugehörigen Wahrscheinlichkeitsdichten nur in Form von Parameterintegral- bzw. Doppelreihendarstellungen gegeben sind, stellt eine große Herausforderung bei der Untersuchung analytischer Eigenschaften dar. Unter Verwendung von Techniken aus der Theorie der vorzeichenregulären Funktionen gelingt es, die bisher vermutete, jedoch lediglich aus Approximationen abgeleitete, strikt unimodale Gestalt der Dichtefunktion für eine große Klasse doppelt nichtzentraler Verteilungen zu zeigen. Dieses Resultat gestattet die Untersuchung des eindeutig bestimmten Modus als Funktion gewisser Nichtzentralitätsparameter. Hier erweist sich die Theorie der vorzeichenregulären Funktionen als wichtiges Hilfsmittel, um monotone Abhängigkeiten nachzuweisen.
This thesis is divided into three main parts: The description of the calibration problem, the numerical solution of this problem and the connection to optimal stochastic control problems. Fitting model prices to given market prices leads to an abstract least squares formulation as calibration problem. The corresponding option price can be computed by solving a stochastic differential equation via the Monte-Carlo method which seems to be preferred by most practitioners. Due to the fact that the Monte-Carlo method is expensive in terms of computational effort and requires memory, more sophisticated stochastic predictor-corrector schemes are established in this thesis. The numerical advantage of these predictor-corrector schemes ispresented and discussed. The adjoint method is applied to the calibration. The theoretical advantage of the adjoint method is discussed in detail. It is shown that the computational effort of gradient calculation via the adjoint method is independent of the number of calibration parameters. Numerical results confirm the theoretical results and summarize the computational advantage of the adjoint method. Furthermore, provides the connection to optimal stochastic control problems is proven in this thesis.
Die Ménage-Polynome (engl.: ménage hit polynomials) ergeben sich in natürlicher Weise aus den in der Kombinatorik auftretenden Ménage-Zahlen. Eine Verbindung zu einer gewissen Klasse hypergeometrischer Polynome führt auf die Untersuchung spezieller Folgen von Polynomen vom Typ 3-F-1. Unter Verwendung einer Modifikation der komplexen Laplace-Methode zur gleichmäßigen asymptotischen Auswertung von Parameterintegralen sowie einiger Hilfsmittel aus der Potentialtheorie der komplexen Ebene werden starke und schwache Asymptotiken für die in Rede stehenden Polynomfolgen hergeleitet.
In the first part of this work we generalize a method of building optimal confidence bounds provided in Buehler (1957) by specializing an exhaustive class of confidence regions inspired by Sterne (1954). The resulting confidence regions, also called Buehlerizations, are valid in general models and depend on a designated statistic'' that can be chosen according to some desired monotonicity behaviour of the confidence region. For a fixed designated statistic, the thus obtained family of confidence regions indexed by their confidence level is nested. Buehlerizations have furthermore the optimality property of being the smallest (w.r.t. set inclusion) confidence regions that are increasing in their designated statistic. The theory is eventually applied to normal, binomial, and exponential samples. The second part deals with the statistical comparison of pairs of diagnostic tests and establishes relations 1. between the sets of lower confidence bounds, 2. between the sets of pairs of comparable lower confidence bounds, and 3. between the sets of admissible lower confidence bounds in various models for diverse parameters of interest.
One of the main tasks in mathematics is to answer the question whether an equation possesses a solution or not. In the 1940- Thom and Glaeser studied a new type of equations that are given by the composition of functions. They raised the following question: For which functions Ψ does the equation F(Ψ)=f always have a solution. Of course this question only makes sense if the right hand side f satisfies some a priori conditions like being contained in the closure of the space of all compositions with Ψ and is easy to answer if F and f are continuous functions. Considering further restrictions to these functions, especially to F, extremely complicates the search for an adequate solution. For smooth functions one can already find deep results by Bierstone and Milman which answer the question in the case of a real-analytic function Ψ. This work contains further results for a different class of functions, namely those Ψ that are smooth and injective. In the case of a function Ψ of a single real variable, the question can be fully answered and we give three conditions that are both sufficient and necessary in order for the composition equation to always have a solution. Furthermore one can unify these three conditions to show that they are equivalent to the fact that Ψ has a locally Hölder-continuous inverse. For injective functions Ψ of several real variables we give necessary conditions for the composition equation to be solvable. For instance Ψ should satisfy some form of local distance estimate for the partial derivatives. Under the additional assumption of the Whitney-regularity of the image of Ψ, we can give sufficient conditions for flat functions f on the critical set of Ψ to possess a solution F(Ψ)=f.