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A wave pulse (be it a gravitational wave or a light wave) undergoes anomalous dispersion in a vacuum in flat spacetimes with an even number of spatial dimensions even if all the frequencies move at the same speed. Such an anomalous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Emel Altas , Ercan Kilicarslan , Bayram Tekin

We consider the scalar wave equation with power nonlinearity in n+1 dimensions. Unlike most previous numerical studies, we go beyond the radial case and do not assume any symmetries for n=3, and we only impose an SO(n-1) symmetry in higher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Oliver Rinne

Nonlinear effects play a fundamental role in the late-time ringdown of black holes, with direct implications for gravitational-wave observations. For massive fields, these dynamics become richer, yet their nonlinear signatures remain poorly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Caiying Shao , Zhen-Tao He , Jiageng Jiao , Jingqi Lai , Jun-Xi Shi , Yu Tian , Dandan Yuan , Hongbao Zhang

We give a brief review on the recent development of gravitational waves in extra-dimensional theories of gravity. Studying extra-dimensional theories with gravitational waves provides a new way to constrain extra dimensions. After a flash…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-29 Hao Yu , Zi-Chao Lin , Yu-Xiao Liu

A family of wave packets with power law tails are employed to analyze the long time dependence of the corresponding probability density. The densities, associated to packets for free particles in the one-dimensional space, with sufficiently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Mendes , C. Anteneodo

We study the drift of spiral waves in a simple model of heterogeneous excitable medium, having gradients in local excitability or cellular coupling. For the first time, we report the anomalous drift of spiral waves towards regions having…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-16 S. Sridhar , Sitabhra Sinha , Alexander. V. Panfilov

A characterisation of when wave tails are strong is proposed. The existence of a curvature induced tail (i.e. a Green's function term whose support includes the interior of the light-cone) is commonly understood to cause backscattering of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Brien C. Nolan

How long does a light bulb shine in odd dimensional flat spacetimes, according to a distant observer? This question is non-trivial because electromagnetic and gravitational waves, despite being comprised of massless particles, can develop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Yi-Zen Chu

We experimentally study anomalous diffusion of ultra-cold atoms in a one dimensional polarization optical lattice. The atomic spatial distribution is recorded at different times and its dynamics and shape are analyzed. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Yoav Sagi , Miri Brook , Ido Almog , Nir Davidson

For nonlinear wave equations with a potential term we prove pointwise space-time decay estimates and develop a perturbation theory for small initial data. We show that the perturbation series has a positive convergence radius by a method…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 Nikodem Szpak

In two space dimensions and one time dimension a wave changes its shape even in the absence of a dispersive medium. However, this anomalous dispersive behavior in empty two-dimensional space does not occur if the wave dynamics is described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Carl M. Bender , Francisco J. Rodriguez , Sarben Sarkar , Anatoly V. Zayats

We establish the large deviation probabilities for the height of random recursive trees, revealing polynomial upper-tail decay and stretched-exponential lower-tail decay. Remarkably, the lower tail features an atypical prefactor that grows…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Xinxin Chen , Heng Ma

We investigate the occurrence of anomalous diffusive transport associated with acoustic wave fields propagating through highly-scattering periodic media. Previous studies had correlated the occurrence of anomalous diffusion to either the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-03-27 Salvatore Buonocore , Mihir Sen , Fabio Semperlotti

In classical diffusion, particle step-sizes have a Gaussian distribution. However, in superdiffusion, they have power-law tails, with transport dominated by rare, long L\'evy flights. Similarly, if the time interval between scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Naixin Liang , Siang Peng Oh

Peculiar velocities change the expansion rate of any observer moving relative to the smooth Hubble flow. As a result, observers in a galaxy like our Milky Way can experience accelerated expansion within a globally decelerating universe,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 Christos G. Tsagas

We show that the leading-order term in the late-time asymptotics of solutions to the linear wave equation on radially symmetric stationary perturbations of $(2 + 1)$-dimensional Minkowski space is proportional to $u^{-1/2}v^{-1/2}$ (which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Onyx Gautam

The behavior of wave signals in the far zone is not only of theoretical interest but also of paramount practical importance in communications and other fields of applications of optical, electromagnetic or acoustic waves. Long time ago T.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Peeter Saari , Ioannis Besieris

The late-time tail behaviors of massive scalar fields are examined analytically in the background of a black hole with a global monopole. It is found that the presence of a solid deficit angle in the background metric makes the massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-11 Hongwei Yu

We study the influence on diffusion in one dimension of a potential energy perturbation varying as a power in space and time. We concentrate on the case of a parabolic perturbation in space decaying as $t^{-\omega}$ which shows a rich…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-08 Loic Turban

In a 4-dimensional (4D) weak field geometry governed by the linearized Einstein's equations and sourced primarily by a static, spatially localized, but otherwise arbitrary mass density $T_{00}$, it is known that the leading order tail part…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-17 Yi-Zen Chu