Quantitative Uniqueness and Rough Damping on $\mathbb T^2$
arXiv:2608.27544
2026
Architecture
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What the math gives to ML
The paper develops explicit geometric decompositions of thin Fourier annuli at the curvature scale R^{-1/2}, together with discrete bounds on overlaps and difference multiplicities. Its polygonal-boundary result shows that frequency pairs from nonparallel sides have uniformly bounded multiplicity for every fixed difference vector. This suggests a structured Fourier neural layer whose learnable frequency supports are partitioned into transverse sectors or polygonal patches, limiting many-to-one collisions in spectral convolutions. The most practical transfer is an anti-aliasing and variance-control mechanism for Fourier layers and neural operators, rather than a direct use of the PDE observability theorem.
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2026
Construct a Fourier layer whose active frequencies lie on several nonparallel polygonal patches or thin annular sectors, and cap repeated difference vectors generated by pairs of patches. The bounded-multiplicity geometry limits how many input frequency pairs can contribute to the same output frequency, potentially reducing spectral aliasing and gradient variance in nonlinear Fourier mixing.
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