#Banach fixed-point theorem

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The Banach Anchor

🃏 Triadic Metaphor Tarot Card 001 Triadic Metaphor Tarot Card 001: The Banach Anchor — “Convergence is not found—it is structured.” ✨ Aphorism (Signal) “Convergence is not found—it is structured.” 📖 Interpretation (Key) In recursive systems, stability is not discovered—it is engineered. The Banach Fixed-Point Theorem proves that a contractive function will always return to a single, stable…

[qhd4]

The proof of this theorem is just great, one of my all time favorites. In retrospect I regret not attending my ODE class, but studying for the exam was real fun.

The whole thing rests on the Banach fixed point theorem, which is also a cute proposition.

You said it not me what's ur favourite theorem

Cauchy-Lipschitz local existence and uniqueness theorem! (x)

Mainly because when we started studying differential equations I didn't really appreciate them and the proof for CL's theorem made me realize how fascinating the topic really is beyond its practical applications.

It's also partly the reason for the name of my blog :)

[lipshits-continuous]

You're a filthy analyst and your favourite theorem is the Banach fixed point theorem

Correct, well mostly. I don't have a definitive favourite but it's up there. But how could it not be, the proof is so gooooood

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

I started reading David Hestenes' book "An Introduction to Nonstandard Calculus" because someone on my Facebook feed linked to this post of his about the nonstandard finite-dimensional analog of the Banach fixed-point theorem

(I didn't know who his collaborators were and this made me curious, so check out this wonderful series of posts on the Banach fixed point example, one of which inspired this quote:

The Banach example has a surprising relevance to many fields where we want to apply the standard Banach fixed-point theorem, such as Fourier theory, probability, stochastic differential equations and stochastic calculus.

Banach showed that a linear functional of the Hilbert space could be such that the sum of any two finite sequences, their squares, and their products equals the identity. If we now treat the above sum as a functional of the infinite sequence, we get the nonstandard Banach Fixed Point Theorem.

Anyway, since I'd read the quoted post on Facebook and was curious about the example, I spent some time reading Hestenes, since I'd heard it was a popular subject of inquiry, like Banach's work is for Hilbert spaces.

I'm about halfway through, and it is fascinating, but right now it's getting me like … down and personal?

A lot of this book is dedicated to a sort of "downward-towards- 1983"-style stuff about nonstandard analysis, and Hestenes' personal contribution touches on that through the way he talks about his childhood and various personal issues he's had (including bipolar disorder).

I can't quite put my finger on what's so fascinating, exactly, about Hestenes' personal narrative. It's more personal than his personal narrative in the book, in subtleties that aren't discussed in the book at all.

There's just something that feels … more true about it. More honest, no pun intended. It feels honest, in a way, to me, because it doesn't have that "hiding things from the future self" effect I associated with personal narratives written shortly after the events they are narrating (e.g. your own writing, diaries, memoirs).

This is not, I guess, that Hestenes is being too self-effacing. It's that, while he definitely has a style, it is very different from the style of the linked post on Facebook. The post strikes me as being written in the style of a personal essay – personal, breezy, with lots of shared and recurring experiences that make it seem like a collection of (not necessarily serious) anecdotes, which I associate with modern personal narratives.

Hestenes, on the other hand, writes in a very … "old-fashioned" sort of way. He's written stuff like this before, in his series of posts about nonstandard analyses of finite D-sets, which I thought were charming. But there's something so refreshingly direct, so much sense and honesty in writing about that, and it makes me curious what the nonstandard Banach case looks like to people who've worked on the topic longer and later. Or, specifically, what Hestenes and his collaborators are saying with the example they cite, in that Facebook post, of the infinite sequences of 1s and 0s that add up to 1.

[nautiscarader]

Okay, so. Math time.

The third episode of Infinity Train Season 2 is a perfect occasion to remind ourselves of a very cool theorem by Polish mathematician Stefan Banach.

it says that if you have a metric space X, and a contraction f: X -> X, then said function f has a unique fixed point!

...and I lost all of you.

Okay, let’s see what happened in the episode. In it, MT and Jesse found themselves on a world which looks like a map... and they hold a map... of said map.

In this case, this world is our X. A metric space, which is just a set with a defined metric, or a way to calculate distance from one element of X to another (called points). If you live in our regular every-day world, where you can measure distance, then congratulations, you live in a metric space! Spoiler alert: there are way more metrics than the one we use, and they can be weird. 

Then, a contraction f: X->X (from X to X). First, the arrow bit means that it’s a function from its own set onto itself. Imagine if you will, two copies of said X, one over the other, and a bunch of arrows from the lower one to the upper one so that every point from the lower X goes to exactly one point in upper X, as if you were to connect wires. Then, a contraction itself: it means that the function changes the “upper” X so that the distance between its points gets smaller (but no bigger or the same). 

...kinda like holding a smaller version of map above the larger map...

And then, coup de grace: a fixed point. If you were to put said smaller map somewhere, anywhere on the larger one (as long as it doesn’t stick out), then there will be...

always..

exactly one...

fixed point. 

Or in other words, a point that is in the same place on the smaller map AND a larger one. 

Yeah. Always. Always exactly one. 

...Kinda as if only one person could hold the map... 

If you have a map of your country you are currently in, and you put it on your floor, then yeah, there is a point - which, I would like to remind you, is a infinitesimally small, zero-dimensional object that in Euclidean geometry has no definition - on the map and in real world where you could take a pin and stick through the map, and it would match... assuming the pin was also zero-dimensional. But, hey, it’s the thought that counts.  

To put it simply, it’s a “You are here” theorem.

That’s the point (he he) of those maps in shopping malls. That point it highlights is the fixed point from Banach’s theorem that makes these maps possible. I wished it was stressed out more in the episode, but hey, I’m happy I can share it with you guys. 

Let’s see if that nerdy posts gets more points than that one silly screencap from yesterday. 

[homomorphism]

I was meeting with my professor today because he’s doing an unofficial functional analysis tutorial with me and we were talking about applications of the Banach Fixed Point Theorem to differential equations and the Dirac delta “function” so he wrote this on the board. It was upsetting.

[catsynth-express]

Please check out our latest CatSynth TV! Fixed Point Iteration: Examples, Analysis, and the Banach Fixed Point Theorem https://youtu.be/x_lJYJYCXBM 😺📈📺 https://www.instagram.com/p/CTSpDRKBQPV/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Existence and uniqueness of solutions of the semiclassical Einstein equation in cosmological models. (arXiv:2007.14665v1 [math-ph])

We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions of the semiclassical Einstein equation in flat cosmological spacetimes driven by a quantum massive scalar field with arbitrary coupling to the scalar curvature. In the semiclassical approximation, the backreaction of matter to curvature is taken into account by equating the Einstein tensor to the expectation values of the stress-energy tensor in a suitable state. We impose initial conditions for the scale factor at finite time and we show that a regular state for the quantum matter compatible with these initial conditions can be chosen. Contributions with derivative of the coefficient of the metric higher than the second are present in the expectation values of the stress-energy tensor and the term with the highest derivative appears in a non-local form. This fact forbids a direct analysis of the semiclassical equation, and in particular, standard recursive approaches to approximate the solution fail to converge. In this paper we show that, after partial integration of the semiclassical Einstein equation in cosmology, the non-local highest derivative appears in the expectation values of the stress-energy tensor through the application of a linear unbounded operator which does not depend on the details of the chosen state. We prove that an inversion formula for this operator can be found, furthermore, the inverse happens to be more regular than the direct operator and it has the form of a retarded product, hence causality is respected. The found inversion formula applied to the traced Einstein equation has thus the form of a fixed point equation. The proof of local existence and uniqueness of the solution of the semiclassical Einstein equation is then obtained applying the Banach fixed point theorem.

from gr-qc updates on arXiv.org https://ift.tt/2CZNgqI

[belleandkurtbastian]

Here’s a cool instance of the Banach fixed-point theorem pic.twitter.com/jRaZhyiNcM

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[hardlocke]

Math ask 1,3,5,7,9,16,18,19,20,37,51,52,62?

Thanks a lot for your ask! :) I really had fun answering these. 

1. What math classes have you taken?The standard linear algebra and analysis classes. Algebra, a class on measurement and integration theory, functional analysis, three topology classes, probability theory and a class on mathematical logic and foundations of mathematics.

3. What math classes did you like the most?I’m tempted to say all except probability theory and algebra buuuut I really enjoyed that logic class. Also I love that whole functional analysis shtick, so that was cool too, as well as measurement and integration theory, which led up to it.

5. Are there areas of math that you enjoy? What are they?I’m big on mathematical logic and proof theory. Since I also study philosophy it’s quite natural that I’d enjoy an area that is in the intersection of both disciplines, I guess. I also like topological analysis a lot, so that would be another purely mathematical field, but logic is where my heart is.

7. What do you like about math?I love how structured and organized everything is. Mathematical language is among the most precise I’ve ever seen and the way mathematical texts or talks are set up is just so clear and thorough. You define what you’re gonna talk about, you state your main thesis, you say why it is true. And there’s also this huge creative part about mathematics and that’s where the beauty comes in. Some proofs or concepts are incredibly elegant and innovative. And proving something yourself is a very creative and fulfilling process (in the 1 out of 99’999 times you actually succeed).Also the fact that you can just make up stuff if you feel you need it to make your theory prettier (looking at you, complex numbers)

9. Do you have any favorite theorems?The hedgehog theorem! A continuously combed hedgehog has at least one bald spot. Gödel’s incompleteness theorems will be my all-time favourite since they got me hooked up on math. The proof of Banach’s fixed-point theorem is very pretty. And (this is not a theorem but a concept) I really like Dedekind cuts.

16. Do you know anyone who doesn’t think they’re good at math but you look up to anyway? Do you think they are?This is a complicated question. There are dozens of people I look up to who aren’t good at math and who don’t think they are (my mom, for one). I just don’t look up to them in a “mathematical” way. As for people who I look up to as mathematicians … I think they are all suitably aware of their abilities, even though they are usually quite humble.

18. Can you share a good math problem you’ve solved recently?19. How did you solve it?These are hard. So, eh, thesis. I’m writing about Gödel’s Dialectica (or functional) interpretation and how you can use it to show that arithmetic is consistent (if you accept certain basic principles). The main point is that you can construct a model for intuitionistc arithmetic with higher order computable functionals over the natural numbers. It was obvious that the model consisted of higher order functionals over the natural numbers but I had no idea how to show that these functionals were computable. The solution was that I misunderstood the problem. The way the functionals of the model are defined is a way of defining higher order computability (through higher order primitive recursion) so there wasn’t really any use in trying to show them to be equivalent to any other notion of higher order computability. I just had to show that Gödel’s notion was intuitively acceptable. And that it is because these primitive recursive functionals of finite types are basically Haskell programs. (Apologies if no one was able to follow this. Apologies for this being incredibly sketchy and vague.)

20. Can you share any problem solving tips?Take a break every once in a while. Don’t force it. If you’ve thought about a problem for five hours without coming up with a solution, just leave it be and try again the next day. (Start working on problems early enough to be able to do that.) Often you will get an idea while you’re in the shower or on your way to university or when you start anew the next day.Talk to someone about your problem. Explain to your grandmother on the phone what’s so hard about this specific problem. Find a group of people you can work well with and talk to them. Be silly while you do it. Toss ideas around. Enjoy yourselves. Google.

37. Have you ever used math in a novel or entertaining way?Well, I do have a math blog. (This is neither novel nor entertaining but one way I use mathematics is to impress people (mainly men, but this is contingent) who just can’t shut up about how great they are and how much they know about the science stuff but know nothing about math by stating completely trivial stuff in complicated terms. “Oh, did you really code this all by yourself? How nice. But did you know that every element of the codomain of a surjective monomorphism has exactly one pre-image?” It’s morally wrong and I enjoy it more than I should.)

51. Favorite casual math book?“Everything and More” by David Foster Wallace and “Incompleteness” by Rebecca Goldstein. The first is about the development of the concept of infinity culminating in Cantor’s set theory and the latter is a scientific biography about Kurt Gödel and the Incompleteness Theorems.

52. Do you have favorite math textbooks? If so, what are they?My recent favourite (because of my thesis) is “Metamathematical Investigation of Intuitionistic Arithmetic and Analysis” (mainly) by Anne Troelstra. This is not common interest because it’s about a very specific part of metamathematics, mainly intuitionistic proof theory. But it’s very thorough and written in a very accessible way and it has helped me a lot.

62. Are there any non-interesting numbers?Mmmhhh…. I don’t really think about numbers a lot, to be honest. But since there are so many of them, there probably are a couple of uninteresting ones for sure. The most interesting number is definitely 0, though, and I’ll fight everyone who disagrees.