The finite sample properties of sparse M-estimators with pseudo-observations

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics - We provide finite sample properties of general regularized statistical criteria in the presence of pseudo-observations. Under the restricted...     

Asymptotics for steady‐state voltage potentials in a bidimensional highly contrasted medium with thin layer

We study the behaviour of steady‐state voltage potentials in two kinds of bidimensional media composed of material of complex permittivity equal to 1 (respectively, α) surrounded by a thin membrane of thickness h and of complex permittivity α (respectively, 1). We provide in both cases a rigorous derivation of the asymptotic expansion of steady‐state voltage potentials at any order as h tends to zero, when Neumann boundary condition is imposed on the exterior boundary of the thin layer. Our complex parameter α is bounded but may be very small compared to 1, hence our results describe the asymptotics of steady‐state voltage potentials in all heterogeneous and highly heterogeneous media with thin layer. The asymptotic terms of the potential in the membrane are given explicitly in local coordinates in terms of the boundary data and of the curvature of the domain, while these of the inner potential are the solutions to the so‐called dielectric formulation with appropriate boundary conditions. The error estimates are given explicitly in terms of h and α with appropriate Sobolev norm of the boundary data. We show that the two situations described above lead to completely different asymptotic behaviours of the potentials. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Asymptotically precise norm estimates of scattering from a small circular inhomogeneity

We establish L ²-based estimates of the scattering produced by a small circular inhomogeneity. These estimates apply to any frequency, and most importantly they exhibit a behaviour that is consistent with numerically observed solutions, uniformly in frequency and size of the inhomogeneity.     

Generalized impedance boundary condition at high frequency for a domain with thin layer: the circular case

Consider a conducting disk surrounded by a thin dielectric layer submitted to an electric field at the pulsation ω. The conductivity of the layer grows like ω^1?γ, γ∈[0,1], when the pulsation ω?tends to infinity. Using a pseudodifferential approach on the torus, we build an equivalent boundary condition with the help of an appropriate factorization of Helmholtz operator in the layer. This generalized impedance condition approximates the thin membrane in the high frequency limit for small thickness of the layer. L ²-error estimates are given and we illustrate our results with numerical simulations. This work extends, in the circular geometry, previous works of Lafitte and Lebeau (Lafitte O. Lebeau G. 1993, Équations de Maxwell et opérateur d’impédance sur le bord d’un obstacle convexe absorbant. Comptes Rendus de l ' Académic dis Science, Paris, Série I, Mathématiques, 316(11), 1177–1182); (Lafitte O.D., 1999, Diffraction in the high frequency regime by a thin layer of dielectric material. I. The equivalent impedance boundary condition. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 59(3), 1028–1052 (electronic)) in which γ?identically equals zero.     

Asymptotic theory of the adaptive Sparse Group Lasso

We study the asymptotic properties of a new version of the Sparse Group Lasso estimator (SGL), called adaptive SGL. This new version includes two distinct regularization parameters, one for the Lasso penalty and one for the Group Lasso penalty, and we consider the adaptive version of this regularization, where both penalties are weighted by preliminary random coefficients. The asymptotic properties are established in a general framework, where the data are dependent and the loss function is convex. We prove that this estimator satisfies the oracle property: the sparsity-based estimator recovers the true underlying sparse model and is asymptotically normally distributed. We also study its asymptotic properties in a double-asymptotic framework, where the number of parameters diverges with the sample size. We show by simulations and on real data that the adaptive SGL outperforms other oracle-like methods in terms of estimation precision and variable selection.

     

Corner asymptotics of the magnetic potential in the eddy‐current model

In this paper, we describe the magnetic potential in the vicinity of a corner of a conducting body embedded in a dielectric medium in a bidimensional setting. We make explicit the corner asymptotic expansion for this potential as the distance to the corner goes to zero. This expansion involves singular functions and singular coefficients. We introduce a method for the calculation of the singular functions near the corner, and we provide two methods to compute the singular coefficients: the method of moments and the method of quasi‐dual singular functions. Estimates for the convergence of both approximate methods are proven. We eventually illustrate the theoretical results with finite element computations. The specific nonstandard feature of this problem lies in the structure of its singular functions: They have the form of series whose first terms are harmonic polynomials, and further terms are genuine nonsmooth functions generated by the piecewise constant zeroth order term of the operator. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Effects of Structural Perturbations on the Synchronizability of Diffusive Networks

Journal of Nonlinear Science - We investigate the effects of structural perturbations on the networks ability to synchronize. We establish a classification of directed links according to their...