Function reconstruction as a classical moment problem: a maximum entropy approach

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/40/405003MaRDI QIDQ3052891zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Parthapratim Biswas, Arun K. Bhattacharya

Publication date 3 November 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4928

zbMATH Keywords

convergencelogistic mapmaximum entropy approachmethod of momentsoscillatory functionreconstruction of non-negative functionssharp discontinuity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moment problems (44A60) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Numerical methods for inverse problems for integral equations (65R32) Convex programming (90C25)

Abstract: We present a systematic study of the reconstruction of a non-negative function via maximum entropy approach utilizing the information contained in a finite number of moments of the function. For testing the efficacy of the approach, we reconstruct a set of functions using an iterative entropy optimization scheme, and study the convergence profile as the number of moments is increased. We consider a wide variety of functions that include a distribution with a sharp discontinuity, a rapidly oscillatory function, a distribution with singularities, and finally a distribution with several spikes and fine structure. The last example is important in the context of the determination of the natural density of the logistic map. The convergence of the method is studied by comparing the moments of the approximated functions with the exact ones. Furthermore, by varying the number of moments and iterations, we examine to what extent the features of the functions, such as the divergence behavior at singular points within the interval, is reproduced. The proximity of the reconstructed maximum entropy solution to the exact solution is examined via Kullback-Leibler divergence and variation measures for different number of moments.

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