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most citedThe Boundary of Amoebas

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25 papers

cs.CV2026

Automatic ply-specific analyses of CFRP micrographs using shortest-path-based ply distinction

Jonas Naumann, Jonas P. Appels, Julius Biermann +3

We present an automated approach to distinguish between ply instances in semantic segmentation masks of high-resolution carbon-fiber reinforced polymer micrographs. Interpreting th…

cs.CL2025

IMProofBench: Benchmarking AI on Research-Level Mathematical Proof Generation

Johannes Schmitt, Gergely Bérczi, Jasper Dekoninck +57

As the mathematical capabilities of large language models (LLMs) improve, it becomes increasingly important to evaluate their performance on research-level tasks at the frontier of…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Revealing hidden physical nonclassicality with nonnegative polynomials

Ties-A. Ohst, Benjamin Yadin, Birte Ostermann +3

Understanding quantum phenomena which go beyond classical concepts is a focus of modern quantum physics. Here, we show how the theory of nonnegative polynomials emerging around Hil…

math.OC2024

A Speed-up for Helsgaun's TSP Heuristic by Relaxing the Positive Gain Criterion

Sabrina C. L. Ammann, Birte Ostermann, Sebastian Stiller +1

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the most extensively researched and widely applied combinatorial optimization problems. It is NP-hard even in the symmetric and metri…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Realistic Runtime Analysis for Quantum Simplex Computation

Sabrina Ammann, Maximilian Hess, Debora Ramacciotti +10

In recent years, strong expectations have been raised for the possible power of quantum computing for solving difficult optimization problems, based on theoretical, asymptotic wors…

math.OC2023

Initial Application of SONC to Lyapunov Stability of Dynamical Systems

Janin Heuer, Timo de Wolff

Certifying the stability of dynamical systems is a central and challenging task in control theory and systems analysis. To tackle these problems we present an algorithmic approach…

stat.ML2022★ 1 cited

Learning Variational Models with Unrolling and Bilevel Optimization

Christoph Brauer, Niklas Breustedt, Timo de Wolff +1

In this paper we consider the problem of learning variational models in the context of supervised learning via risk minimization. Our goal is to provide a deeper understanding of t…

q-bio.MN2022★ 2 cited

Parameter region for multistationarity in site phosphorylation networks

Elisenda Feliu, Nidhi Kaihnsa, Timo de Wolff +1

Multisite phosphorylation is a signaling mechanism well known to give rise to multiple steady states, a property termed multistationarity. When phosphorylation occurs in a sequenti…

math.AG2019★ 2 cited

A Polyhedral Homotopy Algorithm For Real Zeros

Alperen A. Ergür, Timo de Wolff

We design a homotopy continuation algorithm, that is based on numerically tracking Viro's patchworking method, for finding real zeros of sparse polynomial systems. The algorithm is…

math.AG2019★ 2 cited

The algebraic boundary of the sonc cone

Jens Forsgård, Timo de Wolff

In this article, we explore the connections between nonnegativity, the theory of -discriminants, and tropical geometry. For an integral support set , we…

cs.SC2019

Exact Optimization via Sums of Nonnegative Circuits and Sums of AM/GM Exponentials

Victor Magron, Henning Seidler, Timo de Wolff

We provide two hybrid numeric-symbolic optimization algorithms, computing exact sums of nonnegative circuits (SONC) and sums of arithmetic-geometric-exponentials (SAGE) decompositi…

math.AG2017

The Lattice of Amoebas

Jens Forsgård, Timo de Wolff

We study amoebas of exponential sums as functions of the support set . To any amoeba, we associate a set of approximating sections of amoebas, which we call caissons. We show th…

cs.SC2016

Lopsided Approximation of Amoebas

Jens Forsgård, Laura Felicia Matusevich, Nathan Mehlhop +1

The amoeba of a Laurent polynomial is the image of the corresponding hypersurface under the coordinatewise log absolute value map. In this article, we demonstrate that a theoretica…

math.AG2016

A Positivstellensatz for Sums of Nonnegative Circuit Polynomials

Mareike Dressler, Sadik Iliman, Timo de Wolff

Recently, the second and the third author developed sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials (SONC) as a new certificate of nonnegativity for real polynomials, which is independent…

math.OC2016

An Approach to Constrained Polynomial Optimization via Nonnegative Circuit Polynomials and Geometric Programming

Mareike Dressler, Sadik Iliman, Timo de Wolff

In this article we combine two developments in polynomial optimization. On the one hand, we consider nonnegativity certificates based on sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials, wh…

math.AG2016

Imaginary projections of polynomials

Thorsten Jörgens, Thorsten Theobald, Timo de Wolff

We introduce the imaginary projection of a multivariate polynomial as the projection of the variety of onto its imaginary part, $\mathcal{I}(f) \…

math.CO2015

Intersections of Amoebas

Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke, Timo de Wolff

Amoebas are projections of complex algebraic varieties in the algebraic torus under a Log-absolute value map, which have connections to various mathematical subjects. While amoebas…

math.CO2014

A Sharp Upper Bound for the Complexity of Labeled Oriented Trees

Moritz Christmann, Timo de Wolff

A labeled oriented graph (LOG) is an oriented graph with a labeling function from the edge set into the vertex set. The complexity of a LOG is the minimal cardinality of an initial…

math.AG2014★ 2 cited

Norms of Roots of Trinomials

Thorsten Theobald, Timo de Wolff

The behavior of norms of roots of univariate trinomials for fixed support with respect to the choice of…

math.OC2014

Lower Bounds for Polynomials with Simplex Newton Polytopes Based on Geometric Programming

Sadik Iliman, Timo de Wolff

In this article, we propose a geometric programming method in order to compute lower bounds for real polynomials. We provide new sufficient conditions for polynomials to be nonnega…

math.AG2014

Amoebas, Nonnegative Polynomials and Sums of Squares Supported on Circuits

Sadik Iliman, Timo de Wolff

We completely characterize sections of the cones of nonnegative polynomials, convex polynomials and sums of squares with polynomials supported on circuits, a genuine class of spars…

math.AG2013★ 8 cited

The Boundary of Amoebas

Franziska Schroeter, Timo de Wolff

The computation of amoebas has been a challenging open problem for the last dozen years. The most natural approach, namely to compute an amoeba via its boundary, has not been pract…

math.AG2012

Separating inequalities for nonnegative polynomials that are not sums of squares

Sadik Iliman, Timo de Wolff

Ternary sextics and quaternary quartics are the smallest cases where there exist nonnegative polynomials that are not sums of squares (SOS). A complete classification of the differ…

math.AG2011

Amoebas of genus at most one

Thorsten Theobald, Timo de Wolff

The amoeba of a Laurent polynomial $f \in \C[z_1^{\pm 1},\ldots,z_n^{\pm 1}]$ is the image of its zero set under the log-absolute-value map. Understanding the spac…