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Relaxation Theory

Relaxation Theory is a mathematical framework within the Calculus of Variations that extends variational problems to weakly lower semicontinuous functionals in order to ensure the existence of minimizers through generalized solutions.

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Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images

Stuart Geman, Donald Geman · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1984 · 18K citations

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Scene Labeling by Relaxation Operations

Azriel Rosenfeld, Robert A. Hummel, Steven W. Zucker · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics · 1976 · 1.4K citations

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Lower-upper Symmetric-Gauss-Seidel method for the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations

Seokkwan Yoon, Antony Jameson · AIAA Journal · 1988 · 1.3K citations

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Lindhard Dielectric Function in the Relaxation-Time Approximation

N. David Mermin · Physical review. B, Solid state · 1970 · 1K citations

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Stochastic relaxation, Gibbs distributions and the Bayesian restoration of images*

Stuart Geman, Donald Geman · Journal of Applied Statistics · 1993 · 983 citations

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    Irene Fonseca

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    11 publications · 545 citations

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  2. RN
    Roberto Natalini

    Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo Mauro Picone, Italy

    7 publications · 236 citations

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  3. PP
    Pablo Pedregal

    University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

    6 publications · 134 citations

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  4. CB
    C. Boulet

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    5 publications · 96 citations

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  5. DC
    Daniel Cremers

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

    4 publications · 441 citations

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Institutions

646

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    22 h-index

    68 publications

    2.4K citations

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    16 h-index

    34 publications

    3K citations

  3. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    15 h-index

    31 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. École Polytechnique

    Palaiseau, France

    11 h-index

    16 publications

    920 citations

  5. National Institute of Standards and Technology

    Gaithersburg, United States

    8 h-index

    18 publications

    1.1K citations

  6. Technical University of Munich

    Munich, Germany

    8 h-index

    18 publications

    734 citations

  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    8 h-index

    18 publications

    318 citations

  8. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

    New York, United States

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    2.1K citations

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  1. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    50 publications · 3.1K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 15 publications · 854 citations

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  3. Mathematical Programming

    12 publications · 605 citations

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  4. Journal of Applied Physics

    13 publications · 906 citations

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  5. SIAM Journal on Optimization

    11 publications · 839 citations

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