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120 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

Three-Dimensional Simulation of Flood Propagation at Syabrubesi, Nepal

Rainald Löhner, Harbir Antil

Three-dimensional flood propagation through the Bhote Koshi--Langtang Khola junction at Syabrubesi, Nepal, is studied using an incompressible free-surface model. The calculation is…

math.OC2026

Relative Primal--Dual Gap Certificates for Operator-Composite Trust-Region Methods

Harbir Antil

We study trust-region minimization of a smooth, possibly nonconvex functional plus a convex functional composed with a bounded linear operator. A relative primal--dual gap conditio…

math.OC2026

A Function-Space Framework for BDDC Preconditioning in Control- and State-Constrained Sparse Optimal Control

Harbir Antil, Keegan L. A. Kirk, Umarkhon Rakhimov

We develop a Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints (BDDC) preconditioner for the interface systems arising from active-set semi-smooth Newton linearizations of elliptic opt…

math.NA2026

QH-GEM: Quantum-Hydrodynamic Generative Modeling

Harbir Antil, Alex Kaltenbach, Sarswati Shah

In this paper, we develop a deterministic, physically constrained generative framework based on the Madelung formulation of the free-particle Schrödinger equation. A reference Born…

math.NA2026

Duality-Based Error Identities for Subgradient Flows Based on the Brézis-Ekeland-Nayroles Principle

Harbir Antil, Alex Kaltenbach, Keegan L. A. Kirk

We derive duality-based error identities for a broad class of subgradient flows induced by time-dependent convex integral functionals. Starting from the Bré…

math.AP2026

Reduced Order Modeling of One-Dimensional Conservative PDEs via the Cumulative Distribution Transform

Harbir Antil, Rocío Díaz Martín, Ivan V. Medri +4

We propose a reduced order modeling (ROM) framework for 1D conservative PDEs based on the cumulative distribution transform (CDT). The CDT maps nonnegative, equal-mass states into…

eess.IV2026

ESAR: Event-Based Synthetic Aperture Reconstruction

Harbir Antil, Daniel Blauvelt, David Sayre

Event cameras report asynchronous polarity events when changes in log--radiance exceed a fixed contrast threshold, producing signed temporal contrast measurements rather than conve…

math.NA2026

Duality Framework for Flux Constrained Flow in Porous Media: Analysis and Numerics

Harbir Antil, Keegan L. A. Kirk, Felipe Pérez

We introduce and analyze Darcy flow through a saturated porous medium subject to bilateral constraints on the normal flux across a portion of the boundary. The problem is posed as…

math.NA2026

A Finite Element Approximation of an Optimal Insulation Problem with Convective Heat Transfer

Harbir Antil, Alex Kaltenbach, Keegan L. A. Kirk

A finite element discretization of an optimal insulation problem with convective heat transfer is considered. The model is formulated as a non-smooth, two-variable convex minimizat…

math.ST2026

A Discrete Cumulative Distribution Transform via Optimal Transport

Harbir Antil, Gustavo Rohde, Aryan Saxena

This paper develops a fully discrete cumulative distribution transform (CDT) for atomic probability measures on the real line. The transform is defined through monotone quantile ma…

eess.SP2026

Additive Noise, Shift Recovery, and Signed Signals in the Cumulative Distribution Transform

Harbir Antil, Ratna Khatri, Aryan Saxena

The cumulative distribution transform (CDT) is a quantile-based transport representation that exactly linearizes one-dimensional translations of positive densities. We study how th…

physics.optics2026

Polarization-Induced Beam Bending: Mathematical Model, Discretization, and Algorithm

Harbir Antil, Rainald Löhner, Sarswati Shah

We study a reduced hydrodynamic formulation of paraxial vector beam propagation in which the beam intensity, optical phase, and spatially-dependent polarization are coupled through…

math.OC2026

Structure-Preserving Optimal Control of Maxwell's Equations with Applications to Source Cloaking

Harbir Antil, Yaw Owusu-Agyemang, Rohit Khandelwal +2

We develop a structure-preserving solution framework for the optimal control of the time-dependent Maxwell's equations. Building on a well-posedness theory for a weak form of the f…

math.OC2026

An online adaptive finite-element method for nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization

Harbir Antil, Robert J. Baraldi, Rohit Khandelwal +1

We present a trust-region-based adaptive finite-element algorithm for numerically solving a class of nonsmooth PDE-constrained optimization problems that includes problems with spa…

math.OC2026

Risk-averse optimization under distributional uncertainty with Rockafellian relaxation

Harbir Antil, Alonso J. Bustos, Sean P. Carney +1

A framework for risk-averse optimization problems is introduced that is resilient to ambiguities in the true form of the underlying probability distribution. The focus is on proble…

math.OC2026

One-Way Thermo-Mechanical Coupled System Identification Using Displacement and Temperature Measurements

Talhah Shamshad Ali Ansari, Suneth Warnakulasuriya, Ihar Antonau +3

Structural system identification in the presence of thermal loads is challenging, as unmeasured or poorly modeled thermal effects can mask or mimic damage, leading to unreliable co…

math.OC2026

Fisher-Information-Based Sensor Placement for Structural Digital Twins: Analytic Results and Benchmarks

Harbir Antil, Animesh Jain, Rainald Löhner

High-fidelity digital twins rely on the accurate assimilation of sensor data into physics-based computational models. In structural applications, such twins aim to identify spatial…

math.AP2025

Well-Posedness of Pseudo-Parabolic Gradient Systems with State-Dependent Dynamics

Harbir Antil, Daiki Mizuno, Ken Shirakawa +1

This paper develops a general mathematical framework for pseudo-parabolic gradient systems with state-dependent dynamics. The state dependence is induced by variable coefficient fi…

math.AP2025

Convection Effects and Optimal Insulation: Modelling and Analysis

Harbir Antil, Alex Kaltenbach, Keegan L. A. Kirk

In this paper, we study an insulation problem that seeks to determine the optimal distribution of a given amount of insulating material coating an insulated boundary part $Γ_…

math.OC2025

Optimal Boundary Control of Diffusion on Graphs via Linear Programming

Harbir Antil, Rainald Löhner, Felipe Pérez

We propose a linear programming (LP) framework for steady-state diffusion and flux optimization on geometric networks. The state variable satisfies a discrete diffusion law on a we…

math.NA2025

Well-Posedness and Approximation of Weak Solutions to Time Dependent Maxwell's Equations with -Data

Harbir Antil

We study Maxwell's equations in conducting media with perfectly conducting boundary conditions on Lipschitz domains, allowing rough material coefficients and -data. Our first…

cs.LG2025

Randomized Matrix Sketching for Neural Network Training and Gradient Monitoring

Harbir Antil, Deepanshu Verma

Neural network training relies on gradient computation through backpropagation, yet memory requirements for storing layer activations present significant scalability challenges. We…

math.OC2025

OCTANE -- Optimal Control for Tensor-based Autoencoder Network Emergence: Explicit Case

Ratna Khatri, Anthony Kolshorn, Colin Olson +1

This paper presents a novel, mathematically rigorous framework for autoencoder-type deep neural networks that combines optimal control theory and low-rank tensor methods to yield m…

math.OC2025

A smoothed proximal trust-region algorithm for nonconvex optimization problems with -regularization,

Harbir Antil, Anna Lentz

We investigate a trust-region algorithm to solve a nonconvex optimization problem with -regularization for . The algorithm relies on descent properties of a so-call…