2 papers
math.NA2026
A Primal-Dual Level Set Method for Computing Geodesic Distances
Hailiang Liu, Laura Zinnel
The numerical computation of shortest paths or geodesics on surfaces, along with the associated geodesic distance, has a wide range of applications. Compared to Euclidean distance…
math.OC2021
On a polynomial positivity question of Collins, Dykema, and Torres-Ayala related to the Bessis-Moussa-Villani Conjecture
Edward D. Kim, Joe Miller, Laura Zinnel
We construct sum of squares certificates of non-negativity for two families of polynomials appearing as a variant by Collins, Dykema, and Torres-Ayala to Häegele's reformulation of…