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stat.ML2025

A Teacher-Student Perspective on the Dynamics of Learning Near the Optimal Point

Carlos Couto, José Mourão, Mário A. T. Figueiredo +1

Near an optimal learning point of a neural network, the learning performance of gradient descent dynamics is dictated by the Hessian matrix of the loss function with respect to the…

math.SG2024

Fibering polarizations and Mabuchi rays on symmetric spaces of compact type

Thomas Baier, Ana Cristina Ferreira, Joachim Hilgert +2

In this paper, we describe holomorphic quantizations of the cotangent bundle of a symmetric space of compact type , along Mabuchi rays of $…

cs.LG2023

Wide neural networks: From non-gaussian random fields at initialization to the NTK geometry of training

Luís Carvalho, João Lopes Costa, José Mourão +1

Recent developments in applications of artificial neural networks with over parameters make it extremely important to study the large behaviour of such networks. Mo…

math.SG2023

Quantization in fibering polarizations, Mabuchi rays and geometric Peter--Weyl theorem

Thomas Baier, Joachim Hilgert, Oğuzhan Kaya +2

In this paper we use techniques of geometric quantization to give a geometric interpretation of the Peter--Weyl theorem. We present a novel approach to half-form corrected geometri…

math-ph2021

Laughlin states change under large geometry deformations and imaginary time Hamiltonian dynamics

Gabriel Matos, Bruno Mera, José M. Mourão +2

We study the change of the Laughlin states under large deformations of the geometry of the sphere and the plane, associated with Mabuchi geodesics on the space of metrics with Hami…

math.DG2019

Partial coherent state transforms, -invariant Kähler structures and geometric quantization of cotangent bundles of compact Lie groups

José M. Mourão, João P. Nunes, Miguel B. Pereira

In this paper, we study the analytic continuation to complex time of the Hamiltonian flow of certain -invariant functions on the cotangent bundle of a compact connected…

math-ph2019★ 1 cited

Holomorphic fractional Fourier transforms

William D. Kirwin, José Mourão, João P. Nunes +1

The Fractional Fourier Transform (FrFT) has widespread applications in areas like signal analysis, Fourier optics, diffraction theory, etc. The Holomorphic Fractional Fourier Trans…

math-ph2019

Segal-Bargmann transforms from hyperbolic Hamiltonians

William D. Kirwin, José Mourão, João P. Nunes +1

We consider the imaginary time flow of a quadratic hyperbolic Hamiltonian on the symplectic plane, apply it to the Schrödinger polarization and study the corresponding evolution of…

math.DG2017

Picard group and quantization of toric orbifolds

Thomas Baier, José M. Mourão, João P. Nunes

In the classical theory of toric manifolds polytopes appear in two guises -- as Newton polytopes of line bundles on the complex, and as moment polytopes on the symplectic side, the…

math.SG2017

A new approximation method for geodesics on the space of Kähler metrics using complexified symplectomorphisms and Gröbner Lie series

José Mourão, João P. Nunes, Tomás Reis

It has been shown that the Cauchy problem for geodesics in the space of Kähler metrics with a fixed cohomology class on a compact complex manifold can be effectively reduced to…

math.FA2016

Clifford Coherent State Transforms on Spheres

Pei Dang, José Mourão, João P. Nunes +1

We introduce a one-parameter family of transforms, , , from the Hilbert space of Clifford algebra valued square integrable functions on the --dimensional sphere,…

math.FA2016★ 16 cited

Coherent State Transforms and the Weyl Equation in Clifford Analysis

José Mourão, João P. Nunes, Tao Qian

We study a transform, inspired by coherent state transforms, from the Hilbert space of Clifford algebra valued square integrable functions $L^2({\mathbb R}^m,dx)\otimes {\mathbb C}…

math-ph2016★ 20 cited

Extending coherent state transforms to Clifford analysis

William D. Kirwin, José Mourão, João P. Nunes +1

We introduce two extensions of the Segal-Bargmann coherent state transform from to Hilbert spaces of slice monogenic and axial monogenic functions and study t…

math-ph2015

Quantization in singular real polarizations: Kähler regularization, Maslov correction and pairings

João N. Esteves, José M. Mourão, João P. Nunes

We study the Maslov correction to semiclassical states by using a Kähler regularized BKS pairing map from the energy representation to the Schrödinger representation. For general s…

math.DG2014★ 2 cited

Complex symplectomorphisms and pseudo-Kähler islands in the quantization of toric manifolds

William D. Kirwin, José M. Mourão, João P. Nunes

Let be a Delzant polytope. We show that the quantization of the corresponding toric manifold in toric Kähler polarizations and in the toric real polarization are relate…

math.DG2013★ 2 cited

On complexified analytic Hamiltonian flows and geodesics on the space of Kahler metrics

Jose M. Mourao, Joao P. Nunes

In the case of a compact real analytic symplectic manifold M we describe an approach to the complexification of Hamiltonian flows [Se, Do1, Th1] and corresponding geodesics on the…

math.DG2012★ 2 cited

Coherent state transforms and the Mackey-Stone-Von Neumann theorem

William D. Kirwin, José M. Mourão, João P. Nunes

Mackey showed that for a compact Lie group , the pair has a unique non-trivial irreducible covariant pair of representations. We study the relevance of this resul…

math.DG2012

Complex time evolution in geometric quantization and generalized coherent state transforms

William D. Kirwin, José M. Mourão, João P. Nunes

For the cotangent bundle of a compact Lie group , we study the complex-time evolution of the vertical tangent bundle and the associated geometric quantization Hilbert s…

math.AG2011

Quantization of some moduli spaces of parabolic vector bundles on CP^1

Indranil Biswas, Carlos Florentino, José Mourão +1

We address quantization of the natural symplectic structure on a moduli space of parabolic vector bundles of parabolic degree zero over with four parabolic points a…

math.DG2010★ 3 cited

Degeneration of Kaehler structures and half-form quantization of toric varieties

William D. Kirwin, José M. Mourão, João P. Nunes

We study the half-form Kaehler quantization of a smooth symplectic toric manifold , such that and is nonnegative. We define the…

math.SG2009

Quantization of Abelian Varieties: distributional sections and the transition from Kähler to real polarizations

Thomas Baier, José M. Mourão, João P. Nunes

We study the dependence of geometric quantization of the standard symplectic torus on the choice of invariant polarization. Real and mixed polarizations are interpreted as degenera…

math.DG2008★ 22 cited

Toric Kähler metrics seen from infinity, quantization and compact tropical amoebas

Thomas Baier, Carlos Florentino, José M. Mourão +1

We consider the metric space of all toric Kähler metrics on a compact toric manifold; when "looking at it from infinity" (following Gromov), we obtain the tangent cone at infinity,…

math.DG2004★ 47 cited

On the BKS pairing for Kahler quantizations of the cotangent bundle of a Lie group

Carlos Florentino, Pedro Matias, Jose Mourao +1

A natural one-parameter family of Kähler quantizations of the cotangent bundle of a compact Lie group , taking into account the half-form correction, was studied in \cite…

math.DG2004★ 47 cited

Geometric quantization, complex structures and the coherent state transform

Carlos Florentino, Pedro Matias, Jose Mourao +1

It is shown that the heat operator in the Hall coherent state transform for a compact Lie group is related with a Hermitian connection associated to a natural one-parameter fam…