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F. Rinaldi

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The Birman-Schwinger operator for the Cornell Hamiltonian

Quantum Chromodynamics is the theory of strong interactions. It has been shown during the last decades that it describes correctly most of the properties of hadrons at high energy. The most distinctive feature of the theory is the realisation that the elementary particles which composed the known forms of matter, that is to say quarks and gluons, cannot be observed at low energy. In this work we are addressing this specific feature, known as confinement, by performing a rigorous mathematical treatment of the Cornell potential

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The one-dimensional Coulomb Hamiltonian: Properties of its Birman-Schwinger operator

We study the Birman-Schwinger operator for a self-adjoint realisation of the one-dimensional Hamiltonian with the Coulomb potential. We study both the case in which this Hamiltonian is defined on the whole real line and when it is only defined on the positive semiaxis. In both cases, the Birman-Schwinger operator is Hilbert-Schmidt, even though it is not trace class. Then, we have considered some approximations to the Hamiltonian depending on a positive parameter, under given conditions, and proved the convergence of the Birman-Schwinger operators of these approximations to the original Hamiltonian as the parameter goes to zero. Further comments and results have been included.

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Direct-search methods in the year 2025: Theoretical guarantees and algorithmic paradigms

Optimizing a function without using derivatives is a challenging paradigm, that precludes from using classical algorithms from nonlinear optimization, and may thus seem intractable other than by using heuristics. Nevertheless, the field of derivative-free optimization has succeeded in producing algorithms that do not rely on derivatives and yet are endowed with convergence guarantees. One class of such methods, called direct-search methods, is particularly popular thanks to its simplicity of implementation, even though its theoretical underpinnings are not always easy to grasp. In this work, we survey contemporary direct-search algorithms from a theoretical viewpoint, with the aim of highlighting the key theoretical features of these methods. \rev{We provide a basic introduction to the main classes of direct-search methods, including line-search techniques that have received little attention in earlier surveys. We also put a particular emphasis on probabilistic direct-search techniques and their application to noisy problems, a topic that has undergone significant algorithmic development in recent years. Finally, we complement existing surveys by reviewing the main theoretical advances for solving constrained and multiobjective optimization using direct-search algorithms.

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Opportunistic Federation of CubeSat Constellations: a Game-Changing Paradigm Enabling Enhanced IoT Services in the Sky

Internet of Space Things (IoST) is a challenging paradigm, which is currently attracting great interest from the scientific and industrial communities. IoST is based on the integration of the space segment into the global Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. In the relevant literature, reference is generally made to multiple constellations of nanosatellite platforms, used to enable IoT services on a global scale, including also disadvantaged and poorly infrastructured areas. In this paper, we focus on multi-tenant IoT scenarios, wherein multiple CubeSats constellations are enabled to offer services by exploiting a dynamic federation model. The objective is to efficiently provide services in an IoST scenario by leveraging an effective cooperation strategy originally designed for terrestrial IoT networks, the Mobile-IoT-Federation-as-a-Service (MIFaaS) paradigm. We extend this vision to IoT satellite networks in order to allow a constellation of satellites to effectively execute tasks through a tight cooperative behaviour with other CubeSats constellations. The reported performance evaluation studies show that better performance, in terms of percentage of tasks successfully completed, can be achieved through the implementation of the proposed cooperation paradigm.

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A Unifying Framework for Sparsity Constrained Optimization

In this paper, we consider the optimization problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable function subject to both convex constraints and sparsity constraints. By exploiting a mixed-integer reformulation from the literature, we define a necessary optimality condition based on a tailored neighborhood that allows to take into account potential changes of the support set. We then propose an algorithmic framework to tackle the considered class of problems and prove its convergence to points satisfying the newly introduced concept of stationarity. We further show that, by suitably choosing the neighborhood, other well-known optimality conditions from the literature can be recovered at the limit points of the sequence produced by the algorithm. Finally, we analyze the computational impact of the neighborhood size within our framework and in the comparison with some state-of-the-art algorithms, namely, the Penalty Decomposition method and the Greedy Sparse-Simplex method. The algorithms have been tested using a benchmark related to sparse logistic regression problems.

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The Schr\"odinger particle on the half-line with an attractive $\delta$-interaction: bound states and resonances

In this paper we provide a detailed description of the eigenvalue $ E_{D}(x_0)\leq 0$ (respectively $ E_{N}(x_0)\leq 0$) of the self-adjoint Hamiltonian operator representing the negative Laplacian on the positive half-line with a Dirichlet (resp. Neuman) boundary condition at the origin perturbed by an attractive Dirac distribution $-\lambda \delta(x-x_0)$ for any fixed value of the magnitude of the coupling constant. We also investigate the $\lambda$-dependence of both eigenvalues for any fixed value of $x_0$. Furthermore, we show that both systems exhibit resonances as poles of the analytic continuation of the resolvent. These results will be connected with the study of the ground state energy of two remarkable three-dimensional self-adjoint operators, studied in depth in Albeverio's monograph, perturbed by an attractive $\delta$-distribution supported on the spherical shell of radius $r_0$.

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Zero Order Stochastic Weakly Convex Composite Optimization

In this paper we consider stochastic weakly convex composite problems, however without the existence of a stochastic subgradient oracle. We present a derivative free algorithm that uses a two point approximation for computing a gradient estimate of the smoothed function. We prove convergence at a similar rate as state of the art methods, however with a larger constant, and report some numerical results showing the effectiveness of the approach.

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The 3D perturbed Schrödinger Hamiltonian in a Friedmann flat spacetime testing the primordial universe in a non commutative spacetime

In this paper we adapt the mathematical machinery presented in \cite{P1} to get, by means of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, the discrete spectrum of the Hamiltonian of the Schrödinger operator perturbed by an actractive 3D delta interaction in a Friedmann flat universe. In particular, as a consequence of the treatment in \cite{P1} suitable for a Minkowski spacetime, the discrete spectrum of the ground state and the first exited state in the above mentioned cosmic framework can be regained. Thus, the coupling constant $λ$ must be choosen as a function of the cosmic comooving time $t$ as $λ/a^{2}(t)$, with $λ$ be the one of the static Hamiltonian studied in \cite{P1}. In this way we can introduce a time dependent delta interaction which is relevant in a primordial universe, where $a(t)\rightarrow 0$ and becomes negligible at late times, with $a(t)>>1$. We investigate, with the so obtained model, quantum effects provided by point interactions in a strong gravitational regime near the big bang. In particular, as a physically interesting application, we present a method to depict, in a semi-classical approximation, a test particle in a (non commutative) quantum spacetime where, thanks to Planckian effects, the initial classical singularity disappears and as a consequnce a ground state with negative energy emerges. Conversely, in a scenario where the scale factor $a(t)$ follows the classical trajectory, this ground state is instable and thus physically cannot be carried out.

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The spectrum of the Schrödinger Hamiltonian for trapped particles in a cylinder with a topological defect perturbed by two attractive delta interactions

In this paper we exploit the technique used in \cite{A}-\cite{5b} to deal with delta interactions in a rigorous way in a curved spacetime represented by a cosmic string along the $z$ axis. This mathematical machinery is applied in order to study the discrete spectrum of a point-mass particle confined in an infinitely long cylinder with a conical defect on the $z$ axis and perturbed by two identical attractive delta interactions symmetrically situated around the origin. We derive a suitable approximate formula for the total energy. As a consequence, we found the existence of a mixing of states with positive or zero energy with the ones with negative energy (bound states). This mixture depends on the radius $R$ of the trapping cylinder. The number of quantum bound states is an increasing function of the radius $R$. It is also interesting to note the presence of states with zero total energy (quasi free states). Apart from the gravitational background, the model presented in this paper is of interest in the context of nanophysics and graphene modeling. In particular, the graphene with double layer in this framework, with the double layer given by the aforementioned delta interactions and the string on the $z-$axis modeling topological defects connecting the two layers. As a consequence of these setups, we obtain the usual mixture of positive and negative bound states present in the graphene literature.

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