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In the present article we put up for discussion the idea of there existing several versions, phases, of the vacuum, in the spirit in which we have long worked on this idea, namely the Multiple Point Criticality Principle, which also says…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Holger Bech Nielsen , Colin D. Froggatt

The changing topology of a network is driven by the need to maintain or optimize network function. As this function is often related to moving quantities such as traffic, information, etc. efficiently through the network the structure of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-28 Annika King , Dallas Smith , Benjamin Webb

Cosmological models can be studied effectively using dynamical systems techniques. Starting from Brown's formulation of the variational principle for relativistic fluids, we introduce new types of couplings involving a perfect fluid, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-13 Christian G. Boehmer , Antonio d'Alfonso del Sordo

The concept of Schramm-Loewner evolution provides a unified description of domain boundaries of many lattice spin systems in two dimensions, possibly even including systems with quenched disorder. Here, we study domain walls in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jacob D. Stevenson , Martin Weigel

We consider a classical field configuration, corresponding to intersection of two domain walls in a supersymmetric model, where the field profile for two parallel walls at a finite separation is known explicitly. An approximation to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. V. Troitsky , M. B. Voloshin

In this paper, we analyze the monotone space of complexity of directed connectivity for a large class of input graphs $G$ using the switching network model. The upper and lower bounds we obtain are a significant generalization of previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Aaron Potechin

This study investigates the suitability of the annealed approximation in high-dimensional systems characterized by dense networks with quenched link disorder, employing models of coupled oscillators. We demonstrate that dynamic equations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-25 Jaegon Um , Hyunsuk Hong , Hyunggyu Park

We evolve network topology of an asymmetrically connected threshold network by a simple local rewiring rule: quiet nodes grow links, active nodes lose links. This leads to convergence of the average connectivity of the network towards the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Bornholdt , Thimo Rohlf

Data describing the three-dimensional structure of physical networks is increasingly available, leading to a surge of interest in network science to explore the relationship between the shape and connectivity of physical networks. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-20 Luka Blagojević , Márton Pósfai

In this work we investigate time varying networks with complex dynamics at the nodes. We consider two scenarios of network change in an interval of time: first, we have the case where each link can change with probability pt, i.e. the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-04-14 Ankit Kumar , Vidit Agrawal , Sudeshna Sinha

Traditional mathematical models of epidemic disease had for decades conventionally considered static structure for contacts. Recently, an upsurge of theoretical inquiry has strived towards rendering the models more realistic by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-01-20 Babak Fotouhi , Mehrdad Khani Shirkoohi

Time-discrete dynamical systems on a finite state space have been used with great success to model natural and engineered systems such as biological networks, social networks, and engineered control systems. They have the advantage of being…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Alan Veliz-Cuba , Reinhard Laubenbacher

Near-wall regions in wall-bounded turbulent flows experience intermittent ejection of slow-moving fluid packets away from the wall and sweeps of faster moving fluid towards the wall. These extreme events play a central role in regulating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-27 Eric Jagodinski , Xingquan Zhu , Siddhartha Verma

Traditional mathematical approaches to studying analytically the dynamics of neural networks rely on the mean-field approximation, which is rigorously applicable only to networks of infinite size. However, all existing real biological…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-30 Diego Fasoli , Stefano Panzeri

We study the mean-field limit and stationary distributions of a pulse-coupled network modeling the dynamics of a large neuronal assemblies. Our model takes into account explicitly the intrinsic randomness of firing times, contrasting with…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Philippe Robert , Jonathan D. Touboul

Spatially constrained planar networks are frequently encountered in real-life systems. In this paper, based on a space-filling disk packing we propose a minimal model for spatial maximal planar networks, which is similar to but different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-08-05 Zhongzhi Zhang , Jihong Guan , Bailu Ding , Lichao Chen , Shuigeng Zhou

QCD was shown to have a nontrivial vacuum structure due to the topology of the theta = theta+2*pi*n parameter. As a result of this nontrivial topology, in the large N_c limit, quasi-stable QCD domain walls appear, characterized by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 Michael McNeil Forbes , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

We consider three-dimensional statistical systems at phase coexistence in the half-volume with boundary conditions leading to the presence of an interface. Working slightly below the critical temperature, where universal properties emerge,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-22 Gesualdo Delfino , Marianna Sorba , Alessio Squarcini

Modeling human dynamics responsible for the formation and evolution of the so-called social networks - structures comprised of individuals or organizations and indicating connectivities existing in a community - is a topic recently…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Victor V. Kryssanov , Frank J. Rinaldo , Evgeny L. Kuleshov , Hitoshi Ogawa

We investigate stability properties of the motion by curvature of planar networks. We prove Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequalities for the length functional of planar networks with triple junctions. In particular, such an inequality holds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Alessandra Pluda , Marco Pozzetta