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We examine the problem of the evaluation of both the propagator and of the partition function of a spinning particle in an external field at the classical as well as the quantum level, in connection with the asserted exactness of the saddle…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Ercolessi , G. Morandi , F. Napoli , P. Pieri

We introduce a saddle-point finder that can find the complex saddle points for any analytically continued action. We showcase our saddle-point finder by two examples in the EPRL spin foam model: the single vertex case and the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Zichang Huang , Shan Huang , Yidun Wan

An interesting tool for investigating the quantum features of a field theory is the introduction of compensating fields. For instance, the anomalous divergence of the chiral current can be calculated in the field-antifield formalism from an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ricardo Amorim , Nelson R. F. Braga

We use Grassmann algebra to study the phase transition in the two-dimensional ferromagnetic Blume-Capel model from a fermionic point of view. This model presents a phase diagram with a second order critical line which becomes first order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Maxime Clusel , Jean-Yves Fortin , Vladimir N. Plechko

In this paper, we apply the saddle-point method in conjunction with the theory of the N$\ddot{o}$rlund-Rice integrals to derive a precise asymptotic formula for the generalized Li coefficients established by Omar and Mazhouda. Actually, for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Kamel Mazhouda

We give a functional integral representation of the semigroup generated by the spin-boson Hamiltonian by making use of a Poisson point process and a Euclidean field. We present a method of constructing Gibbs path measures indexed by the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Masao Hirokawa , Fumio Hiroshima , Jozsef Lorinczi

In this work, I consider N-component scalar quantum field theory in two dimensions interacting with an upside-down quartic potential. Working in the large N limit, the model can be solved non-perturbatively using the saddle-point method for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Paul Romatschke

Following work on theories with SU(N) gauge groups, we perform a large-N saddle-point approximation of the measure for ADHM multi-instantons in N=4 supersymmetric gauge theories with symplectic or orthogonal gauge groups. For Sp(N) we find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Timothy J. Hollowood , Valentin V. Khoze , Michael P. Mattis

A mean field variational Bayes approach to support vector machines (SVMs) using the latent variable representation on Polson & Scott (2012) is presented. This representation allows circumvention of many of the shortcomings associated with…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-05-14 Jan Luts , John T. Ormerod

The theory of mixed finite element methods for solving different types of elliptic partial differential equations in saddle point formulation is well established since many decades. This topic was mostly studied for variational formulations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Vitoriano Ruas

We report on simulations with two flavors of O(a) improved degenerate Wilson fermions with Schroedinger functional boundary conditions. The algorithm which is used is Hybrid Monte Carlo with two pseudo-fermion fields as proposed by M.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Della Morte , F. Knechtli , J. Rolf , R. Sommer , I. Wetzorke , U. Wolff

We investigate the differences and analogies between the equation of motion phonon method (EMPM) and second Tamm-Dancoff and random-phase approximations (STDA and SRPA) paying special attention to the problem of spurious center-of-mass…

A game theory inspired methodology is proposed for finding a function's saddle points. While explicit descent methods are known to have severe convergence issues, implicit methods are natural in an adversarial setting, as they take the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Montacer Essid , Esteban Tabak , Giulio Trigila

We build the asymptotic higher-spin charges associated with "improper" gauge transformations for fermionic higher-spin gauge fields on Anti de Sitter backgrounds of arbitrary dimension. This is achieved within the canonical formalism. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Andrea Campoleoni , Marc Henneaux , Sergio Hörtner , Amaury Leonard

The question of how does the Dirac equation depend on the choice of the $\gamma$ matrices has partially been addressed and explored in the literature. In this paper we focus on this question by considering a general form of $\gamma$…

General Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 H. Moaiery , M. N. Najafi

We explore various estimators for the parameters of a pair-copula construction (PCC), among those the stepwise semiparametric (SSP) estimator, designed for this dependence structure. We present its asymptotic properties, as well as the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Ingrid Hobæk Haff

We use the numerical renormalization group to calculate the auxiliary spectral functions of the $U=\infty$ Anderson impurity model. The slave--boson and pseudo--fermion spectral functions diverge at the threshold with exponents $\alpha_{b}$…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 T. A. Costi , P. Schmitteckert , J. Kroha , P. Woelfle

We introduce a new numerical technique -- bosonic auxiliary-field Monte Carlo (bAFMC) -- which allows to calculate the thermal properties of large lattice-boson systems within a systematically improvable semiclassical approach, and which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Daniele Malpetti , Tommaso Roscilde

We consider stochastic strongly-convex-strongly-concave (SCSC) saddle point (SP) problems which frequently arise in applications ranging from distributionally robust learning to game theory and fairness in machine learning. We focus on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Yassine Laguel , Necdet Serhat Aybat , Mert Gürbüzbalaban

In this paper, we propose an inexact golden ratio primal-dual algorithm with linesearch step(IP-GRPDAL) for solving the saddle point problems, where two subproblems can be approximately solved by applying the notations of inexact extended…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Changjie Fang , Jinxiu Liu , Jingtao Qiu , Shenglan Chen