What do these two themes have in common? Both are treated variationally, both deal with energies of different dimensionalities, concepts of geometric measure theory prevail in both, and higher order penalizations are considered. Will learning training schemes for choosing these...

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Universality is the somewhat surprising observation that the behavior of quite different models, sometimes even stemming from different branches of mathematics or physics, may be described by the same class of special functions. An example for this phenomenon that has attracted a good deal...