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A variational principle is applied to 4D Euclidean space provided with a tensor refractive index, defining what can be seen as 4-dimensional optics (4DO). The geometry of such space is analysed, making no physical assumptions of any kind.…

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We report on a new methodological approach to electrodynamics based on a fluidic viewpoint. We develop a systematic approach establishing analogies between physical magnitudes and isomorphism (structure-preserving mappings) between systems…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-17 Alexandre A. Martins , Mario J. Pinheiro

In this work, based on the $3+1$ decomposition in [24, 33], we present a fully exterior calculus breakdown of spacetime and Einstein's equations. Links to the orthonormal frame approach [38] are drawn to help understand the variables in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Todd A. Oliynyk , Jia Jia Qian

Here I present a new discrete model of quantum mechanics for relativistic 1-electron systems, in which particle movement is described by a directed space-time graph with attached 4-spinors, but without any continuous wave functions. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Koehler

We generalise the relativistic expression of Ohm's law by studying a multi-fluid system of charged species using the 1+3 covariant formulation of general relativistic electrodynamics. This is done by providing a fully relativistic, fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alejandra Kandus , Christos G. Tsagas

Starting from the classic contraction mapping principle, we establish a general, flexible, variational setting that turns out to be applicable to many situations of existence in Differential Equations. We show its potentiality with some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Pablo Pedregal

We study the conditions of integrability when the boundary terms are considered in the variation of the geometric contribution of the Einstein-Hilbert action. We explore the emergent physical dynamics that is obtained when we make a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 Jesús Martín Romero , Luis Santiago Ridao , Mauricio Bellini

In this article we prove new results regarding the existence and the uniqueness of global variational solutions to Neumann initial-boundary value problems for a class of non-autonomous stochastic parabolic partial differential equations.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Marco Dozzi , Rim Touibi , Pierre-A Vuillermot

We present and numerically solve a modified form of the equation of motion for a charged particle under the influence of an external force, taking into account the radiation reaction. This covariant equation is integrodifferential, as…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Guillermo Garcia Alcaine , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a local solution of the inverse problem of calculus of variations in terms of the identical vanishing of the variation of a functional on an extended space (with the number…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Theodore Voronov

We propose a novel variational principle in electrostatics and show that one can derive mirror equation in the context of image problem starting from this principle. The corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation is seen to lead to Green's…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-08-01 Kolahal Bhattacharya

We investigate the energy transfer dynamics in a donor-acceptor model by developing a time-local master equation technique based on a variational transformation of the underlying Hamiltonian. The variational transformation allows a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-19 Dara P. S. McCutcheon , Ahsan Nazir

In the present article we present exact solutions of the Dirac equation for electric neutral particles with anomalous electric and magnetic moments. Using the algebraic method of separation of variables, the Dirac equation is separated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 German V. Shishkin , Victor M. Villalba

The equations for the electromagnetic two-body problem are neutral-delay equations that for generic initial data have solutions with discontinuous derivatives. If one wants to use these neutral-delay equations with arbitrary initial data,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Jayme De Luca

A new model of nonlinear electrodynamics with three parameters is suggested and investigated. It is shown that if the external constant magnetic field presents the phenomenon of vacuum birefringence takes place. The indexes of refraction…

General Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 S. I. Kruglov

A generalization of the classical electrodynamics for systems in absolute motion is presented using a possible alternative to the Lorentz transformation. The main hypothesis assumed in this work are: a) The inertial transformations relate…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Gabriel D. Puccini

Variational principles play a fundamental role in deriving evolution equations of physics. They are working well in case of nondissipative evolution but for dissipative systems they are not unique, not predictive and not constructive. With…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-02 Péter Ván , Róbert Kovács

In this talk r-form fields in spacetimes of any dimension D are considered (r<D). The weak-field Newtonian-type limit of Einstein's equations, in general, with relativistic sources is studied in the static case yielding a revision of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolai V. Mitskievich

In this paper we consider a generalized classical mechanics with fractional derivatives. The generalization is based on the time-clock randomization of momenta and coordinates taken from the conventional phase space. The fractional…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Aleksander Stanislavsky

We will display the fundamental structure of classical electrodynamics. Starting from the axioms of (1) electric charge conservation, (2) the existence of a Lorentz force density, and (3) magnetic flux conservation, we will derive Maxwell's…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Friedrich W. Hehl , Yuri N. Obukhov , Guillermo F. Rubilar